Method and apparatus for reducing solvent luminescence background emissions
Abstract
The detectability of luminescent molecules in solution is enhanced by reducing the background luminescence due to impurity species also present in the solution. A light source that illuminates the solution acts to photolyze the impurities so that the impurities do not luminesce in the fluorescence band of the molecule of interest. Molecules of interest may be carried through the photolysis region in the solution or may be introduced into the solution after the photolysis region.
- Inventors:
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- Los Alamos, NM
- Charlottesville, VA
- Jemez Springs, NM
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Santa Fe, NM
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 871935
- Patent Number(s):
- 5827663
- Assignee:
- Regents of University of California (Los Alamos, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- method; apparatus; reducing; solvent; luminescence; background; emissions; detectability; luminescent; molecules; solution; enhanced; due; impurity; species; light; source; illuminates; photolyze; impurities; luminesce; fluorescence; band; molecule; carried; photolysis; region; introduced; photolysis region; background emissions; light source; reducing solvent; solvent luminescence; impurity species; luminescence background; luminescence due; luminescent molecules; background luminescence; /435/
Citation Formats
Affleck, Rhett L, Ambrose, W Patrick, Demas, James N, Goodwin, Peter M, Johnson, Mitchell E, Keller, Richard A, Petty, Jeffrey T, Schecker, Jay A, and Wu, Ming. Method and apparatus for reducing solvent luminescence background emissions. United States: N. p., 1998.
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Affleck, Rhett L, Ambrose, W Patrick, Demas, James N, Goodwin, Peter M, Johnson, Mitchell E, Keller, Richard A, Petty, Jeffrey T, Schecker, Jay A, & Wu, Ming. Method and apparatus for reducing solvent luminescence background emissions. United States.
Affleck, Rhett L, Ambrose, W Patrick, Demas, James N, Goodwin, Peter M, Johnson, Mitchell E, Keller, Richard A, Petty, Jeffrey T, Schecker, Jay A, and Wu, Ming. Thu .
"Method and apparatus for reducing solvent luminescence background emissions". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/871935.
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title = {Method and apparatus for reducing solvent luminescence background emissions},
author = {Affleck, Rhett L and Ambrose, W Patrick and Demas, James N and Goodwin, Peter M and Johnson, Mitchell E and Keller, Richard A and Petty, Jeffrey T and Schecker, Jay A and Wu, Ming},
abstractNote = {The detectability of luminescent molecules in solution is enhanced by reducing the background luminescence due to impurity species also present in the solution. A light source that illuminates the solution acts to photolyze the impurities so that the impurities do not luminesce in the fluorescence band of the molecule of interest. Molecules of interest may be carried through the photolysis region in the solution or may be introduced into the solution after the photolysis region.},
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journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {1998},
month = {1}
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