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Image: Researchers direct light from a laser into a material, which results in the material creating light at twice the frequency.<BR> <BR> <U><B>More about this Image</B></U><BR> Dr. Randy Heflin and his colleague Kevin Van Cott, received a Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) grant from the National Science Foundation to explore the nanoscale world through computer simulations and a combination of optics, thin-film technology, and analytical biochemistry. Heflin and Van Cott are attempting to develop new sensor approaches for detecting the presence of biological entities--such as pathogens, DNA, or biological compounds--in an environment or a sample. Thumbnail

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