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Tim Bobosky | Photo Editor Voxtel Senior Engineer and University Associate Researcher Andreas Stonas explains how his research could increase the capabilities of telecommunication and solar power technologies. Voxtel partnership with University a natural pairing The collaboration will combine Voxtel's and ONAMI's research to improve telecommunication technologies NICHOLAS WILBUR NEWS REPORTER A small, privately owned compa ny in Portland obtained a two-year $750,000 research contract with the University’s Oregon Nanotechnolo gy and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) earlier this month. The new partnership, between Voxtel, Inc. and ONAMI, will work to develop high-speed, microwave circuit technology by pairing Vox tel's quantum dot technology with ONAMI scientists' research of poly mers — the conducting matrixes that surround the embedded dots. Both ONAMI and Voxtel were start ed in 2000. “The things Voxtel is interested in studying overlapped with the Uni versity and it was only natural for us to form a collaboration,” An dreas Stonas said of the contract. Although the collaboration has yet to yield any products, ad vances in this basic science will be commercialized and a part of peo ple's daily lives in a couple years, Stonas said. The Air Force Small Business Ini tiative Research program funded this contract, but not solely for mili tary use, Stonas said. He said he wanted funding from the National Science Foundation, but that it has too small a pool of money. The De partment of Defense had a $401.7 billion base budget for 2004 and lat er requested nearly $100 billion on top of that. The National Science Foundation budget was $5.48 bil lion, according to its Web site. “We're not doing military re search,” Stonas said. “This is basic science. It may be militarily funded, but it's non-military in application.” Stonas cites the Internet as an example of the type of militarily funded research that benefits Ameri can citizens more than it does the military. To further diminish skepti cism, Stonas said all the research will be published. “If we were keeping something a secret, then you could worry,” Stonas said. Stonas, a senior engineer at Voxtel, is working with chemists Mark Lonergan and Jim Hutchison of the University's Materials Science Institute. “Voxtel's area of research is a nat ural extension of the work conduct ed in my labs,” Lonergan said in a press release. The University will contribute its expertise in the organic polymer properties that surround the quan tum dots (nanocrystals). Stonas described the process as follows: Nanocrystals within the router device of a fiber optic cable, for ex ample, absorb light and “knock off” an electron, leaving a positively charged hole. Two contacts on the top and bottom of the device, each containing variations of metal com pounds, pull the electrons and holes in opposite directions. After the device separates the charges, the number of absorbed photons can be measured and the currents can be recombined to generate basic electronic charges. The variations of electronic charge recombination will allow advancements in the fundamental science of nanotech nology. Eventually, these advance ments will make longer-lasting, more durable devices that are capa ble of uninterrupted communica tion of complex information over long distances. nwilbu.r@ dailyemerald. com 019285 942-8730 484-1927 STUDENT SPECIAL GOLF 9 HOLES $12 Students Onty. Must show ID. (Monday - Friday) PLEASE RECYCLE THIS PAPER. Contracts: Supporters were encouraged to call governor Continued from page 1 Thursday. 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