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Throughout its history, Agilent Laboratories and its predecessor, HP Labs, have had a heritage of inventing a long and broad line of successful new technologies. Many of these innovations have been the starting points for major businesses.
The following are some of the milestones that mark the accomplishments of what is now Agilent Labs. Agilent Labs was founded in 1999, when Agilent Technologies was created as part of a corporate realignment of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
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- Agilent Labs releases the Agilent Literature Search Software, a meta-search tool for automatically querying multiple text-based search engines, aiding biologists faced with manually searching and extracting associations among genes/proteins.
- Array CGH, array-based comparative genomic hybridization, is a molecular technology breakthrough that uses microarrays to identify multiple and missing pieces of chromosomes in cancer cells compared with normal cells.
- HPLC-chip/MS, high-performance liquid chromatography chip/mass spectrometry, advances the study of small and large molecules.
- IEEE 1588 is a key part of the LXI standard that defines small, modular instruments using low-cost, open-standard Ethernet as the system backbone.
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2003
- World's fastest analog to digital converter for Agilent's high-performance Infiniium oscilloscopes.
- Synapsia Informatics software to help researchers from different scientific disciplines integrate diverse collections of experimental results and analytical information from internal and external sources. Enables them to make better and more informed decisions on potential causes and treatments of diseaseIndustry's first solid shape modeling for optical inspection.
2002
- Terahertz-bandwidth optical sampling oscilloscope
2001
- High-resolution spectrometer provides 1,000 times better resolution than conventional grating-based optical spectrum analyzers (OSAs)
2000
- e-PHEMT power amplifiers for next-generation cell phones High-capacity parallel-optic links for breaking central-office bottlenecks
- Film bulk acoustic resonator filter technology for reducing the size of cellular devices
- Photonic Switching Platform, which uses inkjet technology to allow switching to occur between two fiber-optic cables
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1999
- Agilent Laboratories is spun off from HP Laboratories
- Microdisplay engine for digital cameras
- High-resolution complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors for digital cameras
- First all solid-state mouse for computer control
- World's smallest Web server for remote measurement and control
- World's smallest duplexer for cellular telephones (micromachined technology)
- Demonstrated world's smallest SVGA eyeglass display
1998
- Operating room gas monitor for anesthesia
- Blue/green light-emitting diodes (LEDs)
- First all-solid-state red traffic signal based on Agilent red LEDs
- Time-of-flight for process gas monitoring
1997
- Gene-array product for DNA analysis
- Paperclip – neural networks for handwriting recognition
- First vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for gigabit-Ethernet transceivers
- HP's first fiber-optic thickness monitor
- Nonlinear device-simulation techniques
1996
- High-speed parallel-optical links for 10 Gb/sec data communications demonstrated
- Gas HBT integrated-circuit (IC) process for microwave instrumentation
- Fault detective for printed circuit boards
1995
- Client-server architecture for measurement systems
- Portable monitor for detecting life-threatening heart arrhythmias
- HP's first optical-amplifier tester
- Manufacturing test consulting (based on HP Laboratories' Tetris model for manufacturing cost)
1994
- Capillary-electrophoresis instrument for the rapid separation and detection of proteins
- World's brightest amber LED
- acceSS7 product for monitoring telecomunications networks
- HP's first optical multiwavelength meter
1993
- Electromagnetic-compatibility test system
- Modulation domain analyzer (based on picosecond time digitizer IC)
- PC-based power supply test system
1992
- ORCA – optimized robot for chemical analysis
- HP's first light-wave polarization analyzer
- 1 Gb/sec serial communications ICs introduced ("G-link")
- Gigabit link chips introduced
1991
- New cesium atomic clock – best commercial clock by an order of magnitude
- HP's first precision optical reflectometers
- HP's first tunable light-wave source
1989
- HP's first optical component analyzers
1988
- Agile synthesizers using surface acoustic wave (SAW) brickwall filters
- Gallium-arsenic MODFET IC processes for microwave instrumentation and wireless
- HP's first light-wave signal analyzer using high-speed photodetectors
1987
- High-brightness red/yellow LEDs
- World's first 1-gigasample/sec analog-to-digital converter (used in digitizing oscilloscope)
- First optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) using correlation signal processing
1986
- First low-loss SAW filters for microwave spectrum analyzers
1985
- First GaAs IC (an RF amplifier) shipped in an instrument
1984
- First surface-acoustic wave (SAW) resonators for microwave sweepers
1983
- RFIC GaAs IC process put into production
1980
- First 64-channel ultrasound product for imaging human heart in real-time
- Sensor for the continuous measurement of blood pressure
1979
- Fused silica capillary columns for gas chromatography revolutionize chemical analysis
- New diode array detector for chemical analysis provides rapid optical method for chemical analysis
1978
- First artificial-intelligence (AI) program for interpreting electrocardiograms
1974
- First digitally controlled oscilloscope
1971
- Laser interferometers – precision length-measurement from microns to kilometers
1970
- Quadrupole mass spectrometer for chemical analysis
- Quartz-crystal devices for frequency control, and temperature and pressure measurement
1967
- HP atomic clocks set the world's time standards
1966
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