Quantum Materials Corp. (fka QTMM)

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http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2016/01/china-s-phenomenal-growth-in-photonics.html

QMC moving into China makes a lot of sense. They are becoming leaders in discovery and implementation of new technology. Going forward China will be the country trying to protect trade secrets.

Government R&D funding in China has grown in an exponential fashion from 1995 (16.07 billion yuan) to 2014 (731.22 billion yuan). At the 2014 exchange rate, 731.22 billion yuan = 112 billion US dollars. (Graph is from Qihuang Gong's presentation at the 2015 Laser & Photonics Marketplace Seminar, held by Laser Focus World in conjunction with SPIE Photonics West)

The other day I was perusing my favorite journal in the field of optics and photonics, the Optical Society's (OSA's) Optics Express;1 while reading one high-quality technical paper after another, I became more and more aware of how many of them were from China. Of course the topic of China's growth in research capabilities is not new, but still -- there it was, in front of me.
So I decided to do an informal analysis. Taking the issue I was reading, which was Optics Express, 25 January 2016, Volume 24, Issue 2, I went through each topic one by one and determined how many of the papers came from China. My chosen criteria were: 1) only papers from mainland China (so Taiwan was excluded); and 2) the papers had to either come solely or primarily from Chinese research institutions (and I would say that at least 90% of the papers I selected were solely from Chinese institutions).
The results are at the bottom of this blog -- but in summary, 46 of the 144 papers and articles in that issue were from mainland China, or 32% of the total. I did not choose this issue or journal because it had an especially high proportion of papers from China, so analyses of other issues may return a higher (or lower) percentage.
What this says to me, though, is that China's output of high-quality research in optics and photonics is huge. But I know this already from the increasing numbers of technical news stories that I have written for Laser Focus World in the past few years on the results of Chinese research.