Sony Corporation

Sony Dadc Austria Ag

Gerda Fuhrmann

Gabriele Nelles

Ameneh Bamedi Zilai

Tzenka Miteva

Akio Yasuda

Silvia Rosselli

Stanislav Balouchev

Vladimir Yakutkin

David Danner

Nikolaus Knorr

Georg Bauer

Pinar Kilickiran

Markus Obermaier

Alfred Paris

Lars Peter Scheller

Maria Kaufmann

An active material for organic image sensors, where the active material is a squaraine-based active material or a thiophene-based active material. A photoelectric conversion layer containing the active material, which is a squaraine-based active material or a thiophene-based active material. An organic image sensor containing the photoelectric conversion layer containing the active material.

Squaraine-based molecules as material for organic photoelectric conversion layers in organic photodiodes

A compound containing a squaric acid or a croconic acid group as an anchoring group. The compound containing a squaric acid or a croconic acid group has formula 1: where n is 1 or 2, and D is selected from an alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, heteroalkyl, heteroaryl or heteroaralkyl substituent, and each substituent is substituted or unsubstituted.

Organic compounds containing squaric acid or croconic acid moieties for application in electronic devices

The present invention related to a dye comprising a chromophore to which an acyloin group as anchoring group is attached, to a method of synthesis of such dye, to an electronic device comprising such dye and to the use of such dye.

Dye comprising a chromophore to which an acyloin group is attached

The present invention relates to a polymeric substrate having a glass-like surface, in particular an etched-glass-like surface and to a chip made of at least one such polymeric substrate. The present invention also relates to a method of providing a polymeric substrate with an etched-glass-like surface. Moreover, the present invention relates to a kit for manufacturing a chip using such polymeric substrate. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of a polymeric substrate having a glass-like surface, in particular an etched-glass-like surface for manufacturing a chip.

Polymeric substrate having an etched-glass-like surface and a microfluidic chip made of said polymeric substrate

The present invention relates to organic polymeric photon up-conversion nanoparticles for biological applications, such as labeling and/or detection of cells, biological (macro-) molecules or other analytes, as well as for sensing temperature, pressure, oxygen and other substances that influence the up-conversion process. It further relates to organic photon up-conversion nanoparticles for singlet oxygen generation and the treatment of diseases, such as cancer.

Organic polymeric photon up-conversion nanoparticles for biological applications

The present invention relates to squarylium dyes including an anchoring group, to a method of synthesis of such dye, to an electronic device comprising such dye, and to uses of such dye.

Squarylium dyes including an anchoring group

A dye including an anchoring group in its molecular structure, said anchoring group allowing a covalent coupling of said dye to a surface, for example a surface of a nanoporous semiconductor layer, said anchoring group being represented by formula 1 wherein attachment of said anchoring group within said molecular structure of said dye is at the terminal carbon marked with an asterisk in above formula, wherein G is selected from &#x2014;COOH, &#x2014;SO3H, &#x2014;PO3H2, &#x2014;BO2H2, &#x2014;SH, &#x2014;OH, &#x2014;NH2, preferably &#x2014;COOH, wherein A is selected from the group comprising H, &#x2014;CN, &#x2014;NO2, &#x2014;COOR, &#x2014;COSR, &#x2014;COR, &#x2014;CSR, &#x2014;NCS, &#x2014;CF3, &#x2014;CONR2-OCF3, C6H5-mFm, wherein m=1-5, R being H or any straight or branched alkyl chain of general formula &#x2014;CnH2n+I, n=O-12, preferably 0-4, or any substituted or non-substituted phenyl or biphenyl. 

Dye including an anchoring group in its molecular structure

The present invention relates to a medium for photon energy up-conversion, a photon-energy up-conversion device comprising said medium and to uses of said medium. The present invention also relates to a method of photon energy up-conversion using said medium or said device.

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