Here is one of Marks' patent on what his company, Phototherm, called ELCON. On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 3:19 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
Any links on the emitting/ light generating version of optical rectennas/ nantennas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rectenna
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 04:02:55PM -0700, Steven Schear wrote:
In the early 80s I worked with Alvin Mark's, a very prolific inventor, who was one of the first to realize the great potential of optical rectennas. He also realized the possibility of running them backwards to create efficient color displays.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 11:52 PM Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
A) There is one major step to "peak flat panel monitor" technology and that is active nano-aerials tuned per wavelength (RGB etc), which will eliminate the problems with various LCD (brightness, color gamut) and OLED (burn in) tech, from the point of view of programmers, digital graphic artists and other "dekstop" crowd computer users.
We've seen this tech in development for a little while now, for example with articles over at New-Atlas:
Nano antenna amplifies light by a factor of 1,000 https://newatlas.com/nano-antenna-amplifies-light/16460/
Optical antenna may allow LEDs to replace lasers in host of devices
https://newatlas.com/nano-optical-antenna-led-laser-optical-communications/3...
Graphene optical lens a billionth of a meter thick breaks the diffraction limit https://newatlas.com/optical-lens-one-billionth-meter-thick/41588/
Single photon emission from graphene quantum dots at room temperature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05888-w
Let there be light: Controlled creation of quantum emitter arrays https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170522080752.htm
So no burn-in, tuned (perfect gamut) spectrum production, high lifetime and durability, maximum efficiency, infinite contrast (like OLED). That's active nano light emitting devices on the horizon, and what glorious ocular abundance we shall "soon" indulge in :)
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