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Going the Distance

February 08, 2012 – Garnet Hertz’s OutRun video-gaming vehicle has made quite the journey – from a lab in the CALIT2 Building to the pages of this month’s Popular Science magazine. CALIT2 academic associate Hertz, an artist in residence and research scientist in the Department o
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New SEM Increases Imaging Capabilities

February 06, 2012 – A new ”extreme high resolution” scanning electron microscope (SEM) that provides sub-nanometer imaging capability was installed last month in the CALIT2 Microscopy Center. The center is part of UCI’s materials characterization user facility, the Laboratory fo
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Grant Funds Cell-Measurement Technology

January 31, 2012 – Engineering professor and CALIT2 academic affiliate Kumar Wickramasinghe knows a thing or two about creating innovative laboratory tools. After all, he developed the vibrating mode atomic force microscope, as well as a variety of probes and tips, used in labs
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Patent Protection May Dampen Innovation

January 31, 2012 – Results of a new study by researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Kansas suggest that, contrary to popular belief, greater amounts of innovation, productivity and social wealth may occur when infringers are simply required t
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