733 results about "Excited state" patented technology

Emissive phosphorescent organometallic compounds are described that produce improved electroluminescence, particularly in the blue region of the visible spectrum. Organic light emitting devices employing such emissive phosphorescent organometallic compounds are also described. Also described is an organic light emitting layer including a host material having a lowest triplet excited state having a decay rate of less than about 1 per second; a guest material dispersed in the host material, the guest material having a lowest triplet excited state having a radiative decay rate of greater than about 1×10⁵ or about 1×10⁶ per second and wherein the energy level of the lowest triplet excited state of the host material is lower than the energy level of the lowest triplet excited state of the guest material.

A microscope system comprising an adjusted specimen and a microscope body, wherein the adjusted specimen is dyed with molecule which has three electronic states including at least a ground state and in which an excited wavelength band from the first electron excited state to the second electron excited state overlaps a fluorescent wavelength band upon deexcitation through a fluorescence process from the first electron excited state to a vibrational level in the ground state. There is provided a novel microscope system which is enabled to condense an erase light for exciting a molecule in the first electron excited state to the second electron excited state in an excellent beam profile by using a simple, compact optical system and which has high stability and operability and an excellent super-resolution.

An object is to provide a light-emitting element which includes an exciplex being used as an energy donor capable of efficiently transferring energy to a substance exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence. The exciplex comprises two kinds of substances and its singlet and triplet excited states are close to each other. Thus, by making light emission of the exciplex overlap with an absorption band on the longest wavelength side which corresponds to absorption by the substance exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence, i.e., an energy acceptor, in a singlet excited state, it becomes possible to achieve efficient energy transfer from a singlet excited state of the exciplex to a singlet excited state of the substance exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence, and it also becomes possible to achieve efficient energy transfer from a triplet excited state of the exciplex to a triplet excited state of the substance exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

The invention discloses a method and spectral-imaging device for optochemical sensing with plasmon-modified multiband fluorescence polarization and with plasmon-modified polarization phase shift changes of a light beam reflected and/or passed through a total internal reflection conducting structure. The optochemical sensing is performed for molecules placed nearby the conducting structure and being excited by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) to lower excited state (LES) and/or to higher excited states (HES). The invention also describes the spectral imaging device with an improved sensitivity of several orders of magnitude. The disclosed method and imaging device may find applications in clinical diagnostics, pharmaceutical screening, biomedical research, biochemical-warfare detection and other diagnostic techniques. The device can be used in bio-chip and micro-array technologies, flowcytometer, fiber optic and other types of diagnostic devices.

An all-fiber erbium laser oscillating in a passive Q switched mode. The laser includes a crystal saturable absorber that may be Co²⁺:ZnSe or Cr²⁺:ZnSe. In preferred embodiments continuous pumping or short pulse pumping may be utilized. The laser is characterized by low threshold high-power, short-pulse generation. In preferred embodiments the threshold is only about 20 mW. The crystals are bleached at extremely low intensity, of about 0.8 kW/cm² and provide moderate relaxation time of the excited state (290 μs) within a spectral range of about 1400-1800 nm. The simplicity of the design and low cost of that laser 2000).

The invention discloses an organic mixture, a composite containing the organic mixture, an organic electronic device and application. The organic mixture comprises a first main material H1, a second main material H2 and an organic fluorescence radiation material E1, wherein the second main material H2 and the first main material H1 form a composite excited state material. The first main material H1 and the second main material H2 have II-type heterogeneous structures, and the radiation wavelength of the organic fluorescence radiation material E1 is larger than or equal to the radiation wavelength of the composite excited state material formed by the first main material H1 and the second main material H2. According to the solution, a radiation device is low in manufacturing cost, high in efficiency, long in service life and low in roll-off.

The invention is a method of measuring oxygen concentration in a package having an oxygen sensitive product disposed therein. The method includes exposing a luminescent compound that is disposed in an interior of the package to light having a wavelength that is absorbed by the luminescent compound so that the luminescent compound is promoted into an excited state. When the exposure of the light is terminated, the excited luminescent compound emits light that is detectable by a detector positioned outside of the package. The intensity of the emitted light is inversely proportional to the oxygen concentration and is used in conjunction with mathematical function that describes the luminescent intensity of the luminescent compound as a function of oxygen concentration and temperature to calculate the oxygen concentration. The method may be used to verify and track the oxygen concentration of a package as it moves through a distribution system.

The invention provides a laser micro/nano processing system and a laser micro/nano processing method. The system of the invention comprises a laser light source, an optical retardation component, an optical focusing component and a computer-controlled micro mobile station, wherein the laser light source is used for providing a first laser beam having a first wavelength and a second laser beam having a second wavelength, the pulse widths of the first laser beam and the second laser beam range from femtosecond to nanosecond and the first wavelength is different from the second wavelength; the optical retardation component is used for regulating the optical path of the first laser beam or the second laser beam so that the difference between the arrival times of the first laser beam and the second laser beam at a focus is not greater than the level life time for a photochromic material to be processed to be excited to an excited state; the optical focusing component is used for focusing the first laser beam and the second laser beam onto the same focus; and the computer-controlled micro mobile station is used for regulating a photochromic material on the computer-controlled micro mobile station to the focus.

The present invention relates to a white organic light emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same, in which a hole transport layer is made to have an energy level higher than an energy level of an excited state of a phosphorescent light emitting layer adjacent thereto for enhancing light emitting efficiency of the hole transport layer without an additional exciton blocking layer, and a dopant content in the phosphorescent light emitting layer is adjusted for preventing color shift from taking place.

The white organic light emitting device includes an anode and a cathode placed on a substrate opposite to each other, a charge generation layer formed between the anode and the cathode, a first stack of a first hole transport layer, a first light emitting layer for emitting a blue light, and a first electron transport layer between the anode and the charge generation layer, and a second stack of a second hole transport layer, a second light emitting layer having a host doped with phosphorescence red and green together, and a second electron transport layer between the charge generation layer and the cathode, wherein the second hole transport layer has an energy level set higher than a triplet excited state energy level of the second light emitting layer.

The present invention provides a family of dark quenchers, termed Black Hole Quenchers (“BHQs”), that are efficient quenchers of excited state energy but which are themselves substantially non-fluorescent. Also provided are methods of using the BHQs, probes incorporating the BHQs and methods of using the probes.

The present invention provides various embodiments of a double-resonance-absorption microscope which realizes a super-resolution by using double resonance absorption. In particular, a double-resonance-absorption microscope includes a light source for a pump light of a wavelength λ₁ which excites a sample molecule to a first electronic excited state from a ground state, a light source for an erase light of a wavelength λ₂ which excites the sample molecule to a second electronic excited state or a higher excited state from the first electronic excited state, and an overlap component for partially overlapping irradiating areas of the pump light and the erase light with each other. An emission area upon deexcitation of the sample molecule to the ground state from the first electronic excited state is partially inhibited by irradiating the pump light and the erase light through the overlap means. On an optical path of the erase light, a spatial filter is provided which has a condenser lens, a collimate lens, and a pinhole therebetween, and performs condensing of the erase light onto the pinhole by the condenser lens and collimating of the erase light passed through the pinhole into a parallel beam by the collimate lens.

The excitation of label molecules usable in chemical and biochemical analysis by electrical pulses at electrodes covered with a thin insulating film, and the use of such electrodes in chemical, clinical and biochemical analysis. The electrodes include a conducting base material that has been coated with an organic or inorganic insulating film or multiple layers of such films, so that either one or several label compounds can be excited to an excited state which is deexcited by emission of ultraviolet, visible or infrared light, in aqueous solution providing the basis for reproducible analytical applications in bioaffinity assays such as immunoassays and DNA-probing assays.

The design and operation of a p-i-n device, operating in a sequential resonant tunneling condition for use as a photodetector and an optically pumped emitter, is disclosed. The device contains III-nitride multiple-quantum-well (MQW) layers grown between a III-nitride p-n junction. Transparent ohmic contacts are made on both p and n sides. The device operates under a certain electrical bias that makes the energy level of the first excitation state in each well layer correspond with the energy level of the ground state in the adjoining well layer. The device works as a high-efficiency and high-speed photodetector with photo-generated carriers transported through the active MQW region by sequential resonant tunneling. In a sequential resonant tunneling condition, the device also works as an optically pumped infrared emitter that emits infrared photons with energy equal to the energy difference between the first excitation state and the ground state in the MQWs.

A nonradioactive atmospheric pressure method for ionization of analytes comprises creating an electrical discharge in a carrier gas thus creating metastable neutral excited-state species. The carrier gas containing the excited-state species is directed into a reactant gas to form ions of the reactant gas. The ionized reactant gas is then directed at the analytes at atmospheric pressure near ground potential to form analyte ions.

In order to solve the high-speed cancer excited state problem, a biological retarder is needed. Cancer energy is converted into intramolecular transfer or other vibrational state transfer through collision. By means of the nucleus retarder principle, a neutron and a retarder atomic nucleus are subjected to collision so that the speed can be decreased, and the retarder which does not absorb neutrons and does not react with neutrons is selected. An important task of the cancer biology and even the natural science is that which material can bear a cancer nuclear fission biological retarder. According to repeated experiments, various safety factors are synthesized, and finally a biological moderator is correctly selected through a successful experiment. Bifidobacterium is free of toxicity and harm to a body, and the biological retarder can be ideal for treating a cancer. In the future, more microorganism retarders will be produced, the biological retarder is used for decelerating tumors, a proper amount of deceleration molecular nuclear energy can be used as senile cell addition nuclear energy, and the biological retarder gives power to biological science and will play an indispensable critical role.

The present invention relates to a device for indoor air purification and sterilization which excites indoor air by arc discharge to decompose bad odor and sterilize air, wherein an excited state is maintained by applying a magnetic field and the contact time between molecules activated by arc and pollutants is extended, thereby improving air purification and sterilization effects, and the noise generated by arc discharge is reduced by a silencer and ozone and static electricity are removed by a filter which removes ozone and a metal filter for removing static electricity, respectively, thereby enabling very suitable configuration for indoor air purification and sterilization.

The invention discloses a laser capable of simultaneously outputting nanosecond pulses and pico-second pulses. The laser comprises a signal source, a signal isolation system and an amplifier. According to the invention, with an electric light control technology of combining an extra-cavity Pockels cell and intra-cavity Pockels cell, a regenerative amplification process is realized in case of signal light importing so as to obtain high-energy pico-second laser output, and cavity empty process is also realized in case of no signal light importing so as to obtain nanosecond pulse output; and thefree combination of the two processes can be realized according to practical application demand, and as a result, free combination of numbers of the nanosecond pulses and the pico-second pulses in a single laser is realized and is output in an alternative way. The laser provided by the invention has an important application in high-precision high-efficiency fine processing field, as well as basicresearch fields such as plasma excitation, excited state control, chemical reaction control, special radiation excitation and the like.

To provide a composition for a hologram recording material, a hologram recording material and a hologram recording method applicable to a high density optical recording medium, a three-dimensional display, a holographic optical element etc. and capable of attaining a high sensitivity, a high diffraction efficiency, a satisfactory storage property, a low shrinkage rate, a dry process, a multiplex recording property and a high recording density. An unrewritable hologram recording method including a step in which a sensitizing dye absorbs light by an exposure to form an excited state, a chemical reaction step including a color forming reaction involving an electron transfer or an energy transfer from such excited state, and a hologram-forming step by such chemical reaction.

The present invention relates to a class of fluorescent, organic nanofibrils, and particularly the films comprising entangled piling of these nanofibrils exhibiting effective quenching of their fluorescence upon exposure the vapor of explosives. The invention also relates to a sensor and a method for sensing the explosives vapor and other volatile organic compounds, including the explosives taggants through the modulation of the fluorescence of the nanofibril film and the electrical conductivity of the nanofibrils. The invention also relates to a development of synthetic methods, protocols and techniques that leads to production of various arylene-ethynylene macrocycle (AEM) molecules, which consist of a shape-persistent, toroidal scaffold in planar conformation, with minimal ring strain and highly tunable ring sizes (from 0.5 nm to above 10 nm). The invention also relates to an approach to optimization of the one-dimensional molecular arrangement along the long axis of the nanofibril, which provides increased exciton (excited state) migration (via cofacial intermolecular electronic coupling) and charge transport (via pi-electronic delocalization). A combination of long-range exciton migration and efficient charge transport makes the nanofibrils ideal as sensory materials for detecting explosives and other volatile organic compounds through both optical and electrical sensing mechanisms.