The company is producing special research and measurement equipment and systems. Main products are: turn key laser tweezers system for Nikon microscopes, precision laser guidance systems for laser tweezers applications, direct laser photopolimerization systems for microstructuring and optical catalitic measurement systems for weakly ionized plasma characterization. Our customers include high ranking univeristies and research laboratories: ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Univ. of Oxford, UK, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Univ. of Stuttgart, Max Planck Institute, Germany, Univ. di Milano, Italy and IJS, Slo.
F.20 Company spin off
COBISS.SI-ID: 19875111Magnetic tweezers is an upgrade tool of optical tweezers system and in its priciple of operation an excelent complement to the existing method. Special consideration in designig the magetic setup was given to its flexibility with regards of generation homogenus magnetic fields of arbitrary strength, direction and time dependence. The instrument falls within the cutting edge of comparable instruments. Beside the importance to the basic science it also provides the students to experience tha advanced experimental techniques used nowadays in the fields of biophysics and soft matter physics.
F.06 Development of a new product
COBISS.SI-ID: 2033764We have participated in clinical studies of the effect of a prototype laser system (Dualis Tandem by Fotona) on port wine stain (PWS) birthmarks and other cutaneous vascular malformations. Small PWS test areas in volunteer patients were tested. The test areas were photographed before and after the treatment as well as during regular folow-up visits, to allow unbiased assessment of therapy success. We have also developed a custom system for monitoring of therapeutic efficacy. Similar sudies of mechanisms and clinical efifcacy of laser treatment of post-operative keloid scars are under way.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
COBISS.SI-ID: 21027367We have collaborated in an international patent describing a procedure how to make the polymer layer in liquid crystal optical shutters and LCD displays that has negative optical phase difference. The essence of the patent is how to achieve this in one technological step. The patent describes a new method of implementing holographic optical storage in a plate-like photo-sensitive material. The proposed method has the advantage of avoiding the problems which exist in volume multiplexing of holograms.
F.32 International patent
COBISS.SI-ID: 1809252Martin Čopič was the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 20th International Liquid Crystal Conference, which took place in Ljubljana from July 4 to July 7, 2004. The conference is biannual and is the largest scientific meeting in the field of liquid crystals. It was attended by around 800 scientists from all the world. Irena Drevenšek-Olenik and Lea Spindler were coorganizers of ESF Exploratory Workshop on Self-assembly of guanosine derivatives: from quadruplex DNA to biomolecular devices that took place in Bled, Slovenia, 12-15 September 2006.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
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