Third Floor Materials, Inc. was founded in early 2016 as a spin out of North Carolina State University by Jon-Paul Maria, Edward Sachet and Christopher T. Shelton.
The three founders, two former graduate students and their thesis adviser, saw an opportunity to commercialize an enabling material that was discovered as part of Sachet’s PhD-thesis. The material possesses an unprecedented combination of electrical and optical properties enabling a new light-matter interaction in the infrared.
Based on proprietary materials, the company is developing a prototype infrared imager, targeting the optical gas imaging market. Beyond this beachhead opportunity, Third Floor Materials is well positioned for growth in the burgeoning infrared imaging and sensing markets.