BANGOR, Wales, Jan. 22 -- Researchers at the School of Informatics at the University of Wales at Bangor (UWB) Opto-electronics Group have received a $600,000 grant to continue exploring how optoelectronics can be used to create faster telecommunications networks, aid cancer research, build safer automobiles and combat terrorism. The four-year award, from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council of the United Kingdom, supports existing research in nanoscale and nonlinear optical design and measurement and allows expansion into biophotonics and microsystem optics. 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