Lumera Receives Order from Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) for Interaction with Duke University
March 28 2006 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Lumera Corporation (Nasdaq:LMRA), a leader in the emerging field of
nanotechnology, announced today that it had received an order from
Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA). The
association administers the Photonics Technology Access Program
sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency for interaction with Duke
University's Pratt School of Engineering. Terms of the transaction
were not disclosed. Working collaboratively with Duke, Lumera will
develop optical interconnect and wafer scale photonic integrated
devices using the company's polymer photonic technology and
fabrication expertise combined with Duke's optoelectronic passive
and active optoelectronic device integration technologies. The
modulators will be used as optical interconnects in Duke's
integrated optoelectronic micro and nano systems. Leading the team
at Duke University is Dr. Nan Jokerst, J. A. Jones Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and
Executive Director of the Shared Materials Instrumentation
Facility. Tom Mino, CEO of Lumera, said, "The research being done
by Dr. Jokerst and her team at Duke paves the way for taking
optoelectronic and passive optical components from discrete to
integrated systems. The magnitude of this achievement is similar to
the electronic integrated circuit revolution. We are extremely
pleased to be a part of this effort." Computing and microprocessors
are undergoing a revolutionary transformation. As clock speeds have
risen within the microprocessors of today's computers, so have
power consumption, heat production and electromagnetic
interference. Lumera Corporation has developed a platform of
technologies that enable photonic connections to microchips that
has the potential to significantly change the shape of computers in
the years ahead. These advances will have a dramatic affect on the
size and configuration of computer systems and their applications
spanning today's commercial computing, super computers, and
multiple processors in systems like the common automobile where
these will be linked by fiber optics and communicate at the speed
of light. Duke University is working on several areas of
opportunity including optical interconnects at the system on a
package (SOP) and system on a chip (SOC) levels. They are also
developing on-chip optical interfaces to external optical
interconnects, "smart pixel" systems (e.g., imagers), planar
lightwave circuits, and biochemical chip-scale sensing systems.
These applications have very large potential markets in integrated
sensor systems, environmental sensing, medical diagnostics and
sensing, and bio/chemical integrated "sensor on a chip" systems.
About Duke University Duke University was ranked the number one
U.S. university for industry collaboration. Located in North
Carolina's Research Triangle Park, the Pratt School of Engineering
has four departments: biomedical, electrical and computer,
mechanical and material science, and civil and environmental. Duke
University is ranked in the top ten universities for business,
medicine, law, and biomedical engineering. About Lumera Lumera is a
leader in the emerging field of nanotechnology. The company designs
proprietary molecular structures and polymer compounds for the
bioscience and communications/computing industries, both of which
represent large market opportunities. The company also has
developed proprietary processes for fabricating such devices. For
more information, please visit www.lumera.com. About OIDA OIDA is a
Washington DC-based, non-profit association that promotes
optoelectronics. OIDA members include the leading providers of
optoelectronic components, systems enabled by optoelectronics, as
well as universities and research institutions. OIDA serves as the
voice of industry to government and academia, acts as liaison with
other industry associations worldwide, and provides a network for
the exchange of ideas and information within the optoelectronics
community. Certain statements contained in this release are
forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and
uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those projected in the company's forward-looking
statements include the following: market acceptance of our
technologies and products; our ability to obtain financing; our
financial and technical resources relative to those of our
competitors; our ability to keep up with rapid technological
change; government regulation of our technologies; our ability to
enforce our intellectual property rights and protect our
proprietary technologies; the ability to obtain additional contract
awards and to develop partnership opportunities; the timing of
commercial product launches; the ability to achieve key technical
milestones in key products; and other risk factors identified from
time to time in the company's SEC reports, including its Annual
Report on Form 10-K, and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
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