Third-Order Nanotechnologies Make Electro-Optical Breakthrough

Third-Order Nanotechnologies, Inc. announced today that it achieved a major technical breakthrough with respect to the commercialization of its technology. The breakthrough is the creation of a chemical spacer system that allows the company's advanced chromophore to be embedded in polymer materials for subsequent fabrication into electro-optical components.

The company's spacer is a collection of nano-structured organic chemicals that creates a "nano-bubble" around the chromophore. The nano-bubbles form orderly structures when introduced into a host polymer. The company believes that this patent pending system is instrumental to creating integrated polymer waveguide systems that are necessary to reach the next tier of fiber optic deployment, namely, fiber to the home and fiber to the premises. The company also believes that the nano-bubble technological approach is significantly more advanced than any other approach being explored within the civilian and military communities.

CEO Hal Bennett explains: "This marks a major milestone in our program to demonstrate a high speed polymer modulator by year end. We are very happy with our progress and we remain right on schedule." Mr. Bennett continued, "The spacer system allows our chromophore to be properly suspended in the target polymer - in much the same way that an egg carton allows the orderly suspension of an egg in its cardboard carrier. This chromphore/polymer amalgam is the base material out of which we expect to fabricate our high speed polymer modulators.