The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) awarded CLT a grant to develop a low cost diode laser of unprecedented performance.  This technology will be transferred to a Michigan based laser manufacturer while opening up new applications for the laser in automotive manufacturing and in the homeland security markets.  In addition, the MEDC awarded two other grants to CLT.   One grant was for laser processing technologies for the packaging and assembly of alternative energy sources and storage devices, such as high capacity batteries and fuel cells.  The other grant involves joining of dissimilar materials which is of particular importance to the fields of optoelectronic and micro-electromechanical (MEMS) and bio-MEMS devices which are used extensively in the telecommunication and medical implant/device industries.