Profile: Manning Applied Technology provides consulting and contract research in the related areas of FT-IR instrumentation & spectroscopy, including digital signal processing & electronics. Our products include Polymer modulators™ such as PM-100 polymer modulator, TC-100, TC-200 and TC-1000 temperature control. Our rotating interferometers includes ultra rapid scan FT-IR spectrometer, extreme interferometer, very rapid scan time resolved FT-IR spectrometry and smoke & mirrors. Our Polymer modulator™ provides a convenient, commercially-available tool for combining spectroscopic measurements with rheological perturbation. The system consists of two components an electromechanical head, where the sample is mounted and an electronic power unit. The head is connected to the electronic power unit by a cable. The power unit contains the necessary circuits to amplify an input signal to drive the piezoelectric transducer, as well as amplifiers and signal conditioning for the stress & strain transducers.