Device and method for luminescence enhancement by resonant energy transfer from an absorptive thin film

Patent · Tue Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2017

OSTI ID:1413227

Akselrod, Gleb M.; Bawendi, Moungi G.; Bulovic, Vladimir; Tischler, Jonathan R.; Tisdale, William A.; Walker, Brian J.

Disclosed are a device and a method for the design and fabrication of the device for enhancing the brightness of luminescent molecules, nanostructures, and thin films. The device includes a mirror, a dielectric medium or spacer, an absorptive layer, and a luminescent layer. The absorptive layer is a continuous thin film of a strongly absorbing organic or inorganic material. The luminescent layer may be a continuous luminescent thin film or an arrangement of isolated luminescent species, e.g., organic or metal-organic dye molecules, semiconductor quantum dots, or other semiconductor nanostructures, supported on top of the absorptive layer.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-07ER46454; SC0001088
• Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, MA)
• Patent Number(s): 9,841,544
• Application Number: 14/563,023
• OSTI ID: 1413227
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 2014 Dec 08
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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