Applied Spectra: West Sacramento's Applied Spectra wins $1.3 million in DOE grants to expand technology

Analytical instrument maker Applied Spectra Inc. has been awarded $1.3 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. West Sacramento-based Applied Spectra won two awards, one for $200,000 and another for $1.1 million, in Small Business Innovation Research grants to develop uses for its laser ablation technology, which can be used for chemical analysis while affecting only a tiny bit of material. "This federal funding will advance powerful instrumentation for nuclear isotopic analysis...