Winfield Capital (fka WCAP)

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Researching this upcoming nanotechnology IPO, here is what I've come up with: (WCAP is mentioned at the bottom)



Accent Optical will be IPO'ing. It's ticker symbol will be AXNT.
http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=52


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About Accent Optical Technologies:

Apparently there is some connection to Sir Isaac Newton, interesting.

http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/companyOverview.asp

Fact Sheet:

http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/accentFactSheet.asp

Products aka "picks and shovels":

http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/products.asp?search=az

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"Veeco and Accent Optical Technologies are lead sponsors of Blue
2004."
http://www.photonics.com/todaysheadlines/XQ/ASP/QX/today.htm


"Changes in the dominant wavelength of only a few nanometers can be
perceived as a large color shift by an observer. So for an LED
manufacturer, dominant wavelength is an important parameter," says
Clive Meaton, Director of Technical Marketing for the Optoelectronics
Division."
http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=28

Accent Optical saw the future and comments on nanoscale technology
http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA94747

Accent Optical's nanotechnology and clients - acknowledged with
Nanometrics at the bottom
http://www.eeel.nist.gov/812/conference/Presentations/Thony.pdf

Accent Opticals main competitors, VECO, FEIC, NANO, NVEC and CALP are
listed in the Merrill Lynch nanotechnology index
http://www.smartmoney.com/news/on/index.cfm?story=ON-20040401-000829-1233


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Core infrastructure for wireless technology:

"The three products, DCD Pro and PLM-100/150, will further expand
Accent's product line. The DCD Pro accurately measures thickness and
composition of epitaxial layers only a few atoms thick and brings
ultra-fast semiconductor wafer mapping to the process line. It uses
x-ray diffraction - one of the most powerful techniques for
characterizing epitaxially-grown semiconductor films - to greatly
improve process development and high-volume production control. The
DCD Pro is the leading instrument for characterizing SiGe (crucial
technology for high-speed wireless communications)"

http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=31

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"The pick-and-shovel plays
Some of the earlier beneficiaries of nanotech will be the companies
that sell the tools used to develop it. Governments around the world
are making nanotech a national priority, pushing worldwide funding for
research to $3 billion this year, says Wolfe. He thinks that will help
Veeco, which has a 70% market share in atomic force microscopes used
in nanotech research.

"These are devices that can see and manipulate atoms and molecules,"
says Veeco President Don Kania. More importantly, he says, new
features can be added as new needs arise. Wolfe also has FEI in his
nanotech portfolio; the company makes ion and electron beam
microscopes used in the field."
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P63642.asp


Accent provides "pick and shovel" for nanotechnology in the area of
chip making.

Accent Optical recently acquired Philips Analytical's nanotechnology
tools such as the DCD x-ray diffraction tools (used for the
development of nanotechnology related to semiconductors and wireless
applications - http://www.panalytical.com/index.cfm?sid=206&pid=533 )

http://www.panalytical.com/assets//X'PertPRO_MRD.jpg

http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=31

http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/productDetail.asp?product_id=30

Pictures of epitaxially-grown nanostructures:

http://www.nsec.harvard.edu/nugget_4.htm

http://nanotech-now.com/UWM-release-0723003.htm

http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/mirrors/elchem.kaist.ac.kr/jhkwak/TopometrixWeb/EpiSili2.htm

http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/meis/Epitaxial.html

http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~koel/Topic9.html

http://www.arofe.army.mil/AROFE_Topics/topics_Nov01_Feb02/topics_Feb02site_visit.htm

http://www.physicstoday.com/pt/vol-54/iss-5/captions/p46cap1.html

http://www.chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de/PI/Hoeger/Research/research-2.html

http://www.aeat.com/mcs/MATSFRM2.HTM

http://nanotech-now.com/images/UWM-Epitaxial-molecule1-large.jpg




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Accent Optical also provides tools and services for the new area of
Nano-optics or Nanophotonics:

Accent Optical acquired Philips Analytical's photoluminescence mapping
systems
http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=31

http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=47

"[Current] approaches have met with little success and in general are
not appropriate in PbS quantum dots, due to strong quantum confinement
of both electrons and holes. Therefore, a more appropriate technique
of epitaxial overgrowth with another semiconductor was considered."

http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/lp/nano-optics/fabrication.html


Accent Optical tools enable the most powerful nanotechnology
companies, Quantum Dot http://www.qdots.com/live/index.asp


"SCIENCE MAGAZINE RECOGNIZES QUANTUM DOT RESEARCH AS ONE OF THE TOP
TEN SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS OF THE YEAR"
http://www.qdots.com/live/render/content.asp?id=15&press_id=53


http://nanophotonics.ece.cornell.edu/Research/research.htm

http://content.aip.org/APPLAB/v81/i23/4443_1.html

http://www.nanotechbulletin.com/archive%5C2-15-02%5Cresearch.htm

http://www.evidenttech.com/why_nano/why_nano.php

http://www.festa.or.jp/develop/resrch-e.html


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More on Accent Opticals nanophotonics acquisitions:
http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=12


"The Micro-PL feature allowed us to see things which we couldn't see
any other way."
http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/productDetail.asp?product_id=29


Pictures of Accent Optical's "picks and shovels" and tools inside a
nanotechnology company in Japan:
http://vcsel-www.pi.titech.ac.jp/labsys/facility-e.html


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Interesting Intel connection:

http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=41
http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/nanometer.htm


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Accent Optical will be IPO'ing. It's ticker symbol will be AXNT!
http://www.accentopto.com/Accent/pressReleases.asp?release_id=52

Winfield Capital, WCAP, is holding 585,366 shares (approx. 6%) of this
new Nanotech!:
http://www.winfieldcapital.com/portfolio/companyProfile.asp

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1283902/000089102004000337/v97043orexv4w5.txt

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WCAP.OB


In 1999 WCAP rocketed 600% to $60.00 per share as it held shares of
another company that was preparing to IPO in 1999, they held interest
in Rowe.com, 153,676 shares, and that was less than they now own of
Accent Optical!!!:


http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=wcap&sid=0&o_symb=wcap&f...


A little history on WCAP, just for fun:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=wcap+grou...

WCAP before it ran to $60.00/share:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=wcap+group:misc.invest.stocks.*&start=440&hl=en&lr=&am...