USCRF Board of Directors Meeting
February 2004
Laser Lighting (USC)
•The
Carolina Laser Lighting Center of Economic Excellence (CLC)” and a Carolina Laser Lighting Endowed
Professorship at the University of South Carolina (USC) will serve as the hub for
innovative Photonics and Microelectronics (PM) Research, which is imperative
for the State of South Carolina to transition to a high-tech economy.
•The
CLC will facilitate and ensure the creation of entirely new American industries that will have a tremendous
impact in the areas of environmental protection, homeland security, biology, medicine,
and quality of life.
•This
will be done by creating innovative building blocks for microelectronic, optoelectronic and integrated optics in
the visible and deep ultraviolet (UV) part of the spectrum (200-600
nanometers).