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/35917/
> >
> >   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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