Electric lamp and discharge devices – With luminescent solid or liquid material – Solid-state type
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Ton, Toan (Department: 2889)
Electric lamp and discharge devices
With luminescent solid or liquid material
Solid-state type
C313S512000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07999455
ABSTRACT:
A device for stimulable light emission that includes a fiber mat of nanofibers having an average fiber diameter in a range between 100 and 2000 nm, and includes plural stimulable particles disposed in association with the nanofibers. The stimulable particles produce secondary light emission upon receiving primary light at a wavelength λ. The average fiber diameter is comparable in size to the wavelength λ in order to provide scattering sites within the fiber mat for the primary light. Various methods for making suitable luminescent nanofiber mats include: electrospinning a polymer solution including or not including the stimulable particles and forming from the electrospun solution nanofibers having an average fiber diameter between 100 and 2000 nm. Methods, which electrospin without the stimulable particles, introduce the stimulable particles during electrospinning or after electrospinning to the fibers and therefore to the resultant fiber mat.
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Andrady Anthony L.
Davis James Lynn
Ensor David S.
Han Li
Walls Howard J.
Hanley Britt D
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
Research Triangle Institute
Ton Toan
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