847 results about "Afterglow" patented technology

The present invention provides a fluorescent material comprising a light-storing first phosphor that at least partially converts energy emitted by an excitation source to a first emission spectrum that is different from the energy, and a second phosphor that at least partially converts the first emission spectrum to a second emission spectrum that is different from the first emission spectrum; a lamp equipped with such a fluorescent material; a light-emitting device that produces a whitish afterglow, comprising such a fluorescent material for converting the emission by an LED chip; and a display unit comprising a display equipped with a plurality of such light-emitting devices.

Disclosed is an apparatus for performing mass spectrometry and a method of analyzing a sample through mass spectrometry. In particular, the disclosure relates to an apparatus capable of ambient mass spectrometry and mass spectral imaging and a method for the same. The apparatus couples laser ablation, flowing atmospheric-pressure afterglow ionization, and a mass spectrometer.

A red light emitting afterglow photoluminescence phosphor is a rare earth oxysulfide phosphor activated by Europium, which chemical formula is follows: Ln2O2S:Eux,My 0.00001<=x<=0.5 0.00001<=y<=0.3 wherein Ln is at least one selected from the group consisting of Y, La, Gd and Lu; M is a coactivator which is at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ti, Nb, Ta and Gain the chemical formula.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a light-emitting composite paint. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) preparing a graphene / long afterglow phosphor composite; and (2) dispersing 3-6 parts of graphene / kaolin / SiO2 composite material and 2-4 parts of a graphene / calcium carbonate / SiO2 composite into 15-20 parts of deionized water, processing for 90-120 minutes so as to form a solution A3, dispersing 1-5 parts of graphene / red-emit phosphor / SiO2 composite into 15-20 parts of deionized water, processing for 90-120 minutes so as to form a solution B3, dispersing 1-5 parts of graphene / long afterflow phosphor composite into 15-20 parts of deionized water, processing for 90-120 minutes so as to obtain a solution C1, respectively and slowly dropwise adding solutions B3 and C1 in the solution A3 until a mixed solution is formed under conditions of performing ultrasonic shaking at a frequency of 200-400KW and stirring at a centrifugal speed of 500-800r / min, adding 70-80 parts of film forming matter, and mixing and stirring uniformly, so as to obtain the light-emitting composite paint. The preparation method is capable of obviously improving the luminous intensity and luminous uniformity of a water-borne luminous paint, and further improving the dispersibility of phosphor in the paint and the construction performance and storage stability of the paint.

Inventions relate to scintillation substances and they may be utilized in nuclear physics, medicine and oil industry for recording and measurements of X-ray, gamma-ray and alpha-ray, nondestructive testing of solid states structure, three-dimensional positron-emission tomography and X-ray computer tomography and fluorography. Substances based on silicate comprising lutetium and cerium characterised in that compositions of substances are represented by chemical formulae CexLu2+2y−xSi1−yO5+y, CexLiq+pLu2−p+2y−x−zAzSi1−yO5+y−p, CexLiq+pLu9.33−x−p−z□0.67AzSi6O26−p, where A is at least one element selected from group consisting of Gd, Sc, Y, La, Eu, Tb, x is value between 1×10−4 f.units and 0.02 f.units., y is value between 0.024 f.units and 0.09 f.units, z is value does not exceeding 0.05 f.units, q is value does not exceeding 0.2 f.units, p is value does not exceeding 0.05 f.units. Achievable technical result is the scintillating substance having high density, high light yield, low afterglow, and low percentage loss during fabrication of scintillating elements.

Hafnium oxide HfO2 scintillator compositions are doped with titanium oxide and at least an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of Be, Mg, and Li. The scintillator compositions can include sintering aid material such as scandium and / or tin and a rare earth metal and / or boron for improved transparency. The scintillators are characterized by high light output, reduced afterglow, short decay time, and high X-ray stopping power. The scintillators can be used as detector elements in X-ray CT systems.

The present invention concerns very fast scintillator materials comprising lutetium iodide doped with Cerium (Lu1-xI3:Cex; LuI3:Ce). The LuI3 scintillator material has surprisingly good characteristics including high light output, high gamma ray stopping efficiency, fast response, low cost, good proportionality, and minimal afterglow that the material is useful for gamma ray spectroscopy, medical imaging, nuclear and high energy physics research, diffraction, non-destructive testing, nuclear treaty verification and safeguards, and geological exploration. The timing resolution of the scintillators of the present invention provide compositions capable of resolving the position of an annihilation event within a portion of a human body cross-section.

Luminescent polymers are prepared from thermosetting unsaturated polyesters, suspending fillers and phosphorescent pigments and utilized to make gel coated articles and molded, cast and fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) articles. The luminescent polymers show bright and long-lasting photoluminescent afterglow, strong thermostimulation of afterglow by heat and electroluminescent properties. The preferred thermosetting unsaturated polyester resins are prepared by condensing mixtures of ethylenically unsaturated and aromatic dicarboxylic acids and anhydrides with dihydric alcohols and a polymerizable vinylidene monomer. Preferred suspending fillers and thixotropic modifiers include silica, microspheres, glass fibers and other short fibers, nepheline syenite, feldspar, mica, pumice, magnesium sulfate, calcium carbonate, bentonite and the various clays and thixotropic modifiers and mixtures thereof. Preferred phosphorescent pigments include alkaline earth aluminate phosphors, zinc sulfide phosphors and mixtures of these phosphors.

Flexible luminescent paints are prepared from physical blends of hybrid epoxy acrylic resins, cementicious acrylic resins and optionally pure acrylic coating resins together with monopropylene glycol, suspension additives, rheological additives and photoluminescent pigments. The luminescent paints exhibit bright, even and long-lasting photoluminescent afterglow, excellent flexibility in both thin and thick layers, and are suitable for spraying, brushing, rolling and screen printing. Optional fluorescent pigments may be utilized to give daylight coloration and up-convert the photoluminescent emissions to the fluorescent emissions color.

Scintillator compositions having a garnet crystal structure useful for the detection of high-energy radiation, such as X, beta, and gamma radiation, contain (1) at least one of terbium and lutetium; (2) at least one rare earth metal; and (3) at least one of Al, Ga, and In. Terbium or lutetium may be partially substituted with Y, La, Gd, and Yb. In particular, the scintillator composition contains both terbium and lutetium. The scintillators are characterized by high light output, reduced afterglow, short decay time, and high X-ray stopping power.

A new kind of long-afterglow phosphorescent glass is composed of 5~60 wt% long-afterglow material which particle size is 10~100 um and 40~95wt% matrix glass the softening tempereture of which is 400 DEG C ~1100 DEG C.The long-afterglow phosphorescent glass can long-afterglow phosphoresce for 4 to 12 hours in the dark after stimulating by visible light or uv,the luminescence color is yellow, yellowish green,green,blue green,orange red,red etc.The line expansion coefficient of matrix glass is (15~110)*10[-7] / DEG C and the emitting spectrum is 440~650 nm.The manufacturing method of this new long-afterglow phosphorescent glass is that making the long-afterglow material and matrix glass into phosphorescent glass powder or phosphorescent glass block firstly and then producting long-afterglow phosphorescent glass according to the conventional production technology that incorporation into silicate glass,aluminate glass,lead glass and quartz glass.

The ethyl metasilicate is dissolved in ethyl alcohol and deionized water, heated in hot water bath with 50-90 deg.c to hydrolyze solution into transparent ethyl metasilicate sol; the long-persistencephosphor powder is immersed in the ethyl metasilicate sol, heated to 50-100 deg.c, the sol can be completely changed into gel; the covered mixture is placed in oven, oven-dried at 50-100 deg.c, and the over-dried covered powder is placed in sintering furnace, heat-insulated for 1-5 hr, at 300-500 deg.c and cooled so as to implement said invention which can obviously raise water-resisting propertyof long-persistence phosphor powder.

The present invention facilitates improvements in laser ablation of solid samples to be analyzed by an external inductively coupled plasma (ICP) emission spectrometer, ICP / mass-spectrometer (ICP-MS), or flowing afterglow (FAG) mass spectrometer (FAG-MS) for elemental analysis (ICP and ICP-MS) or molecular analysis (FAG-MS). A novel invention mirror-with-hole beam combiner eliminates chromatic aberration in the invention sample view and allows rad-hardening the laser ablation invention for use in a radiation hot cell for analysis of high activity nuclear waste. Many other novel invention rad-hardening attributes facilitate a comprehensive rad-hardened laser ablation system (the world's first). In other embodiments, invention novelties include unusually large homogeneous focused laser spot diameters, unusually long laser objective lens focal length, wide range operationally variable laser path length with built-in re-alignment, operationally variable demagnification ratio and diameter of the focused laser spot, the use of significantly higher powered SMR lasers in a large spot diameter to facilitate high sensitivity bulk analysis of solid samples, a demountable and gravitationally self-sealing stack assembly laser ablation cell, and the world's first auto-samplers (mechanized sample changers) for analytical laser ablation.

A red light emitting afterglow photoluminescence phosphor is a rare earth oxysulfide phosphor activated by Europium, which chemical formula is as follows:wherein Ln is at least one selected from the group consisting of Y, La, Gd and Lu; M is a coactivator which is at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ti, Nb, Ta and Ga in the chemical formula.

The invention relates to an inorganic scintillator material of formula Lu(2−y)Y(y−z−x)CexMzSi(1−v)M′vO5, in which:M represents a divalent alkaline earth metal and M′ represents a trivalent metal, (z+v) being greater than or equal to 0.0001 and less than or equal to 0.2,z being greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.2;v being greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.2,x being greater than or equal to 0.0001 and less than 0.1; andy ranging from (x+z) to 1.In particular, this material may equip scintillation detectors for applications in industry, for the medical field (scanners) and / or for detection in oil drilling, The presence of Ca in the crystal reduces the afterglow, while stopping power for high-energy radiation remains high.

The present invention concerns very fast scintillator materials comprising lutetium iodide doped with Cerium (Lu1-xI3:Cex; LuI3:Ce). The LuI3 scintillator material has surprisingly good characteristics including high light output, high gamma-ray stopping efficiency, fast response, low cost, good proportionality, and minimal afterglow that the material is useful for gamma-ray spectroscopy, medical imaging, nuclear and high energy physics research, diffraction, non-destructive testing, nuclear treaty verification and safeguards, and geological exploration. The timing resolution of the scintillators of the present invention provide compositions capable of resolving the position of an annihilation event within a portion of a human body cross-section.

A plasma-based dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) ion source is configured for flowing afterglow sampling and ionization of analytes. A method of direct sampling for mass spectrometric analysis includes providing an afterglow from a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma device, directing the afterglow with a flow of heated plasma support gas to a sample positioned externally to the DBD device, ionizing at least a portion of the sample with the afterglow and heated gas, and, analyzing ionized species from the sample in a mass spectrometer. A system for mass spectrometric analysis of a sample includes a mass spectrometer having an entrance aperture, and, a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) ion source having a heated plasma support gas for directing DBD afterglow to a sample positioned between the DBD ion source and the entrance aperture of the mass spectrometer.

The invention relates to a double-cavity excitation enhanced microwave plasma torch generation device, and belongs to the technical field of microwave plasma. The device comprises a microwave magnetron, a circulator, a directional coupler, a microwave plasma coupling waveguide, a cylindrical waveguide, an igniter and a discharge tube. After the microwave magnetron, the circulator and the directional coupler are sequentially connected in series, the directional coupler is connected with the microwave plasma coupling waveguide. The cylindrical waveguide chamber is additionally arranged in the axial direction of the discharge tube perpendicular to a compression rectangular waveguide; a thermal resistance waveguide in the microwave plasma coupling waveguide effectively isolates the influence of thermal release of plasma discharge on a whole system; the igniter makes the whole system operated by a single person to complete a series of processes of ignition, excitation and maintenance, and the ignition success rate is close to 100% under the condition that the no-load output of a microwave source is low. Plasma torch afterglow with a larger volume action area can be obtained by increasing the maximum power of a plasma torch, so that the device can operate stably and reliably for a long time, and can be used in various relevant fields such as combustion assistance, nano material synthesis, waste gas treatment and high-temperature-resistant material surface modification.

The invention discloses an afterglow nanomaterial and a preparation method of a long-afterglow nanomaterial with sizes and spectrum adjusted on basis of ion doping. An expression formula of the nanomaterial is Zn(1+x)Ga(2-2x)GexO4:0.75%Cr, wherein x is larger than or equal to 0 and smaller than or equal to 0.5, and the particle size is 7 nm-80 nm. According to the preparation method, a zinc nitrate solution, a gallium nitrate solution, a sodium germinate solution and a chromium nitrate solution in specific proportions are mixed together, ammonia water is added rapidly while the mixture is stirred, and the pH of the mixed solution is adjusted to 10; then, the mixed solution is transferred to a high-temperature hydrothermal kettle and reacts at the temperature of 120 DEG C, and the afterglow nanomaterial is obtained. The method is simple and easy to implement, severe experiment conditions and complicated large instruments are not required, synthesized nanoparticles are uniform in sizes and have a good water-phase dispersion property and high afterglow strength, the afterglow time can reach 10 h, and accordingly, the synthesized nanoparticles are suitable for improving the physical and chemical properties of the long-afterglow nanomaterial.

The invention relates to an alkali soil phosphate long afterglow emitting material and the method to manufacture that belongs to emitting material field. it is made up from weighting according to the ratio and grinding to equal, sintering for 5-12h under 950-1200 degree centigrade or 3-6h under 300-600 degree centigrade, cooling to room temperature, grinding again and sintering for 5-12h in reducing atmosphere to gain compounding. The emitting light could be from magenta to blue, and the afterglow could last for 5 hours.

In an afterglow fluorescent lamp having a structure wherein at least a phosphorescent phosphor layer is set on the internal surface of a glass container, pinholes are prevented from appearing in the layer. The layer is formed, using a phosphorescent phosphor powder, wherein a metal oxide powder whose primary particles have a particle-size distribution with an upper limit particle size smaller than a lower limit particle size of a particle-size distribution that primary particles of a matrix material of the phosphorescent phosphor powder have is mixed, in a ratio by weight that is not less than 10 wt % but not greater than 40 wt %, with the matrix material of the phosphorescent phosphor powder. Therein, the particles of the metal oxide fill the gaps among the particles of the phosphorescent phosphor, and thereby the adhesive strength between the particles of the phosphorescent phosphor is heightened.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a transparency film used for increasing photoelectric conversion efficiency of a solar photovoltaic cell. The transparency film used for increasing photoelectric conversion efficiency of the solar photovoltaic cell comprises: (1) at least one down conversion agent A; (2) at least one up conversion agent B; (3) at least one up and down conversion agent C; (4) at least three visible light arousing long afterglow light conversion agent D, E, F; (5) a matrix resin (polyethylene, polystyrene or polyvinyl chloride); (6) an ageing resistant consistent with above materials (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). The transparency film used for increasing photoelectric conversion efficiency of the solar photovoltaic cell is provided with the characteristics of optical conversion and noctilucence, and is lasting and stable, can cause the common photovoltaic cell to make use of solar for longer time and more effectively, and mostly can improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the common photovoltaic cell more than 30%, namely can cause the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the common photovoltaic cell to achieve more than 22%.

The back scatter detector is one truncated rectangular pyramid structure comprising one bottom plane, one top plane and four side planes to form one sealed casing. The bottom plane as the X-ray incident window has outer layer of aluminum-plastic board and inner layer of barium fluorochloride screen; and the top plane and the four side planes have transparent flash cesium iodide crystal sheets adhered to the inner surface and mounted photomultipliers. The present invention has barium fluorochloride layer to absorb low energy X-rays and transparent cesium iodide crystal sheets to absorb high energy X-rays, and this can greatly reduce afterglow, raise the X-ray absorbing efficiency and raise light converting efficiency.

The present invention relates to a fluorescent material and a scintillator and radioactive ray detector using the same. The fluorescent material is characterized in that: Ce is used as lighting element, at least comprising Gd, Al, Ga, O, Si, and the component M is at least one of Mg, Ti, and Ni. In addition, the composition of the material must be expressed by the general formula: (Gd 1-x-z Lu x Ce z ) 3+a (Al 1-u-s Ga u Sc s ) 5-a O 12 wherein 0<=a<=0.15, 0<=x<=0.5, 0.0003<=z<=0.0167, 0.2<=u<=0.6, and 0<=s<=0.1, and wherein, regarding the concentrations of Si and M is 0.5<=Si concentration (mass ppm)<=10, and 0<=M concentration (mass ppm)<=50. The fluorescent material has the characteristics of low with high lighting strength and when in stopping x-ray radiation 1 to 300ms, to the low afterglows.

The present invention facilitates improvements in laser ablation of solid samples to be analyzed by an external inductively coupled plasma (ICP) emission spectrometer, ICP / mass-spectrometer (ICP-MS), or flowing afterglow (FAG) mass spectrometer (FAG-MS) for elemental analysis (ICP and ICP-MS) or molecular analysis (FAG-MS). A novel invention mirror-with-hole beam combiner eliminates chromatic aberration in the invention sample view and allows rad-hardening the laser ablation invention for use in a radiation hot cell for analysis of high activity nuclear waste. Many other novel invention rad-hardening attributes facilitate a comprehensive rad-hardened laser ablation system (the world's first). In other embodiments, invention novelties include unusually large homogeneous focused laser spot diameters, unusually long laser objective lens focal length, wide range operationally variable laser path length with built-in re-alignment, operationally variable demagnification ratio and diameter of the focused laser spot, the use of significantly higher powered SMR lasers in a large spot diameter to facilitate high sensitivity bulk analysis of solid samples, a demountable and gravitationally self-sealing stack assembly laser ablation cell, and the world's first auto-samplers (mechanized sample changers) for analytical laser ablation.

Scintillator with both high fluorescence intensity and weak afterglow, can be offered.An aspect in accordance with the present invention provides, a fluorescent material with garnet structure containing Gd, Al, Ga, and O at least, containing Lu and / or Y, and also containing Ce as an activator, wherein said fluorescent material is expressed as (Gd1-x-zLxCez)3+a(Al1-uGau) 5-aO12, wherein L is Lu and / or Y, wherein 0<a≦0.15, 0<x<1.0, 0.0003≦z≦0.0167 (here, x+z<1.0), and 0.2≦u≦0.6.

The invention relates to a coating for road safety facilities, in particular to the coating for a road safety guardrail. The road guardrail coating with width marking and warning function is characterized by consisting of a coating and micro glass beads, wherein the coating is prepared from raw materials including a high molecular polymer resin, a long-afterglow light emitting material, a filler, a pigment, an auxiliary agent and a solvent; and the road guardrail coating comprises 10 to 40 weight percent of high molecular polymer resin, 2 to 30 weight percent of long-afterglow light emitting material, 5 to 50 weight percent of filler, 0 to 5 weight percent of pigment, 0.1 to 5 weight percent of auxiliary agent, 10 to 40 weight percent of solvent and 1 to 30 weight percent of micro glass beads. The road guardrail coating has a rust-proof and corrosion resistant effect on the guardrail and has the effect of marking the width and warning for a road at night.

A fluorescent paint used for reinforcing infrared light comprises an infrared long afterglow luminescent material, diluent, binding agent and a fluorescence staining substance, and is characterized in that the infrared long afterglow luminescent material is mixed with the diluent to form a fluorescent solution containing the infrared long afterglow luminescent material, the fluorescent solution and the binding agent are evenly mixed to form fluorescent binding agent, and the fluorescent binding agent is combined with the fluorescence staining substance. The fluorescent paint used for reinforcing infrared light absorbs ultraviolet light in sunlight and releases near-infrared light for a long time at night. The near-infrared light can be sensitively detected by an existing CCD camera. The fluorescent paint used for reinforcing infrared light can form a static infrared light-emitting environment background when painted on fencings, walls, cloth, trees and the ground. The fluorescent paint used for reinforcing infrared light has the advantages of being stable, free of toxin, environmentally friendly, low in cost, simple to use and the like, thereby being capable of being widely applied to the fields of security monitoring, night target infrared displaying, dynamic tracking without heat source, anti-fake fluorescent materials and the like.

A fluorescent material for a scintillator to be used in a radiation detector is provided. The fluorescent material is designed to have a high fluorescent intensity and a low level of afterglow a short term of 1 to 300 ms after the termination of X-ray radiation.The above fluorescent material contains Ce as an activator. In addition, the material must contain at least Gd, Al, Ga, O, Fe, and a component M. The component M is at least one of Mg, Ti, and Ni. In addition, the composition of the material must be expressed by the general formula:(Gd1-x-zLuxCez)3+a(Al1-u-sGauScs)5−aO12 wherein 0≦a≦0.15, 0≦x≦0.5, 0.0003≦z≦0.0167, 0.2≦u≦0.6, and 0≦s≦0.1, and wherein, regarding the concentrations of Fe and M, Fe: 0.05≦Fe concentration (mass ppm)≦1, and 0≦M concentration (mass ppm)≦50.