microcavity

Researchers at the University of Illinois are developing panels of microcavity plasma lamps that may soon brighten people's lives.

June 4th, 2007 2007

Like conventional fluorescent lights, microcavity plasma lamps are glow-discharges in which atoms of a gas are excited by electrons and radiate light.

Soon, an Aluminium Foil Lamp That Outshines Incandescent Lights | Impact Lab 2007

Researchers at the University of Illinois, US, are developing thin, lightweight panels of microcavity plasma lamps that can be used for residential and commercial lighting, and for certain types of biomedical applications.

Soon, an Aluminium Foil Lamp That Outshines Incandescent Lights | Impact Lab 2007

In preliminary, values of the efficiency – known as luminous efficacy – of 15 lumens per watt were recorded, and upon optimisation of the array design and microcavity phosphor geometry, values exceeding 30 lumens per watt are expected, said Prof.

Soon, an Aluminium Foil Lamp That Outshines Incandescent Lights | Impact Lab 2007

~ New optical microcavity could lead to more efficient quantum computing -- Right now, there is no shortage of proposed architectures for quantum computers.

Speedlinking 9/7/07 William Harryman 2007

"Built of aluminum foil, sapphire and small amounts of gas, the panels are less than one millimeter thick, and can hang on a wall like picture frames," said Gary Eden, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university and corresponding author of a paper describing the microcavity plasma lamps in the June issue of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.

Soon, an Aluminium Foil Lamp That Outshines Incandescent Lights | Impact Lab 2007

And with the production of an open and scalable microcavity, the group of Ed Hinds at the Centre for Cold Matter at Imperial College, London thinks it might have found at least one possibility.

Speedlinking 9/7/07 William Harryman 2007

An adult with great dental hygiene is probably at lower risk of seeing a microcavity progress than a teenager who drinks soft drinks all day, she said.

The Seattle Times 2011

Here, we demonstrate spin multistability with microcavity polaritons in a trap.

Naturejobs - All Jobs T. K. Paraïso 2010

III-V microcavity in which we engineered local cylindrical extensions of the cavity spacer (mesas).

Naturejobs - All Jobs T. K. Paraïso 2010