Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Marc Wilhelmus Gijsbert Ponjee

Mark Thomas Johnson

Roel Penterman

Gerardus Petrus Karman

Sieglinde Neerken

Paul Arnold Van De Wiel

Kristiane Anne Schmidt

Oana Mihaela Piciu

Ron Gill

Nigel David Young

Herbert Lifka

David Andrew Fish

Murray Fulton Gillies

Hendrik Roelof Stapert

Nijs Cornelis Van Der Vaart

Frank Anton Van Abeelen

Jacob Marinus Jan Den Toonder

Zeynep Seflek Unay

Erik Robbert Vossenaar

Bart Edward Jozef Gusta Van Meerbergen

Zeynep Seflek

Bart Edward Gusta Jozef Van Meerbergen

Hendrikus Alfonsus Roelof Stapert

Methods and devices for detection of micro-organisms present or suspected to be present within a mammalian blood sample are provided. A selective lysis is obtained by incubating the sample in a non-ionic detergent under alkaline conditions.

Selective lysis of cells

Methods and devices for the selective lysis of cells in a sample comprising micro-organisms such as bacteria are provided. The selective lysis is obtained by incubating the sample in a non-ionic detergent under alkaline conditions.

A light emitting device comprises a substrate () and an arrangement of light emitting elements () provided over the substrate. The substrate has a contoured surface which defines at least first and second regions (), having normal directions which face in different directions. The light emitting elements () comprise directional light emitting elements, and are provided on the first and second regions (), thereby to define first and second light emission directions. This arrangement provides light source elements on a structured (topographically non-flat) substrate in a device, such that the angular distribution of light emitted by the device can be electronically adapted by controlling the light emission per light-emitting area.

Directional light output devices such as multi-view displays

The invention relates to a microelectronic sensor device and a method for the investigation of biological target substances (), for example oligonucleotides like DNA fragments. In one embodiment, the device comprises a reaction surface (RS) to which target specific reactants () are attached and which lies between a sample chamber (SC) and an array of selectively controllable heating elements (HE). The temperature profile in the sample chamber (SC) can be controlled as desired to provide for example conditions for a PCR and/or for a controlled melting of hybridizations. The reactant () and/or the target substance () comprises a label () with an observable property, like fluorescence, that changes if the target substance () is bound to the reactant (), said property being detected by an array of sensor elements, for example photosensors (SE). The fluorescence of the label () may preferably be transferred by FRET to a different fluorescent label () or quenched if the target substance () is bound.

Microelectronic sensor device for DNA detection

The invention relates to different designs of a microelectronic device comprising an array of heating elements (HE) with local driving units (CU) and optionally with an array of sensor elements (SE) adjacent to a sample chamber (SC). By applying appropriate currents to the heating elements (HE), the sample chamber can be heated according to a desired temperature profile. The local driving units comprise means for compensating variations of their individual characteristics.

Microelectronic device with heating array

The invention relates to different designs of a microelectronic sensor device comprising an array of heating elements (HE) and an array of sensor elements (SE) that are aligned with respect to each other adjacent to a sample chamber (SC). By applying appropriate currents to the heating elements (HE), the sample chamber can be heated according to a desired temperature profile.

Microelectronic sensor device with sensor array

A multi view display comprising a light emitting element having an optical cavity formed by a first and a second reflecting layer, at least said second reflecting layer being semi-transparent, and a light emitting layer arranged between said reflecting layers, wherein said optical cavity is designed so that light emitted in at least two preferred viewing directions has a higher intensity than light emitted in other directions. The invention is based on interference phenomena in the optical cavity, making it possible to realize a light emitting element that intrinsically emits more light in the preferential viewing directions than in other directions. This emission profile makes the light emitting element very useful in a multi view display, reducing the problems of cross talk.

Multi view display device

The present invention relates to a magnetic field generation device comprising a magnetic field generating element () and a limiter () for limiting a magnitude of a current through the magnetic field generating element ().

Magnetic field generation device

A display panel includes pixels with a light emissive layer and an electrode layer deposited on the light emissive layer. A first pixel is determined by a first barrier structure and a second pixel, adjacent to the first pixel, is determined by a second barrier structure. The first and second barrier structures are separated by an electrically conductive structure in electrical contact with the electrode layer. Accordingly, space is available between the barrier structures for electrical shunting of the electrode layer.

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Marc Wilhelmus Gijsbert Ponjee