Applied Nanotools Inc. (ANT) is a leading nanofabrication and photonics company specializing in X-ray optics and silicon photonics as well as gas sensing. Applied Nanotools’ state-of-the-art technologies are used in research and commercial products world-wide. Zone plate, and diffractive optics, with design dimensions below 20 nm which are used to produce X-ray images of samples with nanoscale resolution. NanoSOI, a fast-prototyping silicon photonics foundry, is accessed by universities and companies worldwide for cutting-edge research in a fast-growing field. With over 20 publications utilizing the platform in the last year, it has become a core technology for a wide-range of fields.