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5 Foreign Investment Capabilities
Pages 168-174

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... For example, the NEC corporation has developed silicon (Si) optical interconnectors for data transmission in large-scale integration chips (Nikkei Electronics Asia, 2007)
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... . This, too, is in conjunction with OSA. At the national level, the Chinese government makes major investments through its university programs in science and engineering.
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... Studies funded include the following: PhOREMOST, for nano and molecular photonics research; ePIXnet, the European Photonic Integrated Components and Circuits Network of Excellence; FUNFOX, the Functional Photonic Crystals for Metropolitan Optical Networks; PHAT, which creates two- and three-dimensional designs in silicon for the integration of routing and emission; and PICMOS, which deals with photonic interconnects on silicon (Strategies Unlimited, 2005) . Also of note is the EU-funded virtual technology platform for nanophotonics (VIRGIN)
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... This belief is supported by a study performed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that predicted the global marketplace for goods and services using nanotechnologies will grow to $1 trillion by 2015.15 The committee believes that when nano­ photonics matures, the most significant advances in nanophotonics will be driven largely by global-scale commercial demands rather than by militarily-specific demands.
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... It is expected that this task should have a strong focus on monitoring the developments of nanophotonics technologies in countries not friendly to the United States. 17Additional information on U.S.
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... adversaries; nonetheless, because such a list is believed by the committee to be much more useful to the sponsor, it has done its best to create such a list, presenting it in Chapter 6. The committee warns against entirely disregarding nanophotonics applications that are envisioned to have little military application but which may have such significant commercial potential that if the United States does not engage in this area that has global interest, its technological edge may be eroded.
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... Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. National Research Council.
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