Looking for leaks, ‘tweaking sunlight`
(WorldNews Mexico)

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Two local tech companies were among three in New Mexico awarded $100,000 New Mexico Small Business Innovation Research grants, providing recipients with additional resources to commercialize their technology. UbiQD in Los Alamos is an advanced materials company powering product innovations in agriculture. Using technology called quantum dots that are sprayed onto a film, the spectrum of harmful UV sunlight can be shifted to plant-friendly orange luminescence, encouraging more efficient greenhouse growth, increasing yield from 5% to 20%. And Santa Fe-based Mesa Photonics has created a ground-based remote sensor for measuring variations in...