Founded by players experienced inall aspects of running a business -- management, engineering, contracts, strategy, accounting, and human resources - Izentis LLC is a R&D company whose prncipals have previously undertaken technical projects to include 200 nm-pitcih reflection and transmission gratings for two research groups at MIT, small test rockets for NASA and DARPA to test beamed energy propulsion, and ran experiments to adjust solder joints via high power lasers for MIT. The companyâs primary focus to date has been fabrication of high-performance diffraction gratings for x-ray spectroscopy. These gratings are nanoscale and Izentis personnel have a broad array of expertise in micro and nanofabrication - expertise that now allows the firm to offer a range of fabrication services with applications in aerospace, semiconductors, mechanical engineering and biology. In addition to fabrication services. The firm also offers custom built tools for nanofabrication such as vacuum bonders and end-point detection for ion-etching