U.S. Philips Corporation

Bayer Technology Services Gmbh

Centrum Fur Angewandte Nanotechnologie (Can) Gmbh

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Centrum Fuer Angewandte Nanotechnologie (Can) Gmbh

Markus Haase

Helmut Bechtel

Wolfram Czarnojan

Christiane Meyer

Werner Hoheisel

Horst Weller

Ulrich H Kynast

Kerstin Bohmann

Joseph Lauter

Cornelis Reinder Ronda

Herbert Friedrich Boerner

Walter Mayr

Wolfgang Busselt

Burkhard Köhler

Joachim F Opitz

Werner Scherber

Thomas Kraenzler

Dieter Wadow

Stephan Haubold

Fernando Ibarra

Jochen Haering

Thorsten Heidelberg

Stefan Gruhlke

Herbert Friedrich Borner

Stefan Haubold

Karsten Riwotzki

Heike Meyssamy

Ulf Zum Felde

Stephan c/o Hanosolutions Gmbh Haubold

Luminescent inorganic nanoparticles comprising: (a) a core made from a first metal salt or oxide being surrounded by (b) a shell made from a second metal salt or oxide being luminescent and having non-semiconductor properties. These nanoparticles can be advantageously used in (fluorescence) resonance energy transfer ((F)RET)-based bioassays in view of their higher (F)RET efficiency.

Luminescent core/shell nanoparticles suitable for (F)RET-assays

The present invention relates to Luminescent nanoparticles comprising (a) a core made from a luminescent metal salt selected from phosphates, sulfates or fluorides, being surrounded by (b) a shell made from a metal salt or oxide capable of preventing or reducing energy transfer from the core after its electronic excitation to the surface of the nanoparticle, e.g. a shell made from a non-luminescent metal salt or oxide, which are characterized by higher quantum yields and can be used in various fields including light generation and security marking.

Luminescent core/shell nanoparticles comprising a luminescent core and method of making thereof

A process for synthesizing nanoparticles, in particular metal salt nanoparticles. To the synthesis mixture is added a modifying reagent which binds, by means of a first functional group, to the nanoparticle surface and which carries a second functional group for binding to molecules which are specifically selected in dependence on the subsequent use of the nanoparticles. This dispenses with a postsynthetic, separate, application-specific modification step. A new substance class, the pentaalkyl iminobis(methylenephosphono)carboxylates, are particularly suitable for this purpose. These modifying reagents permit the nanoparticles to grow in a specifically controlled manner and, at the same time, modify the surface of the growing nanoparticles, (in-situ) during the synthesis, such that the particles can be very readily dissolved in a large number of solvents and carry functional groups for coupling on molecules, resulting in the particles having, immediately after having been synthesized, a certain all-round usability.

Production and use of in situ-modified nanoparticles

Methods for the preparation of inorganic nanoparticles capable of fluorescence, wherein the nanoparticles consist of a host material that comprises at least one dopant. The synthesis of the invention in organic solvents allows to gain a considerably higher yield compared to the prior art synthesis in water. All kinds of objects can advantageously be marked and reliably authenticated by using an automated method on the basis of a characteristic emission. Further, the size distribution of the prepared nanoparticles is nartower which renders a subsequent size-selected separation process superfluous.

Synthesis of nanoparticles

Electrochromic element

An organic electroluminescent component with a layer arrangement includes a first electrode layer, an inorganic layer which conducts electrons, one or several optoelectronically active layers with at least one light-emitting layer which comprises an organic emitter, and a second electrode layer. The inorganic layer which conducts electrons is an N-type conducting oxide of a transition metal chosen from the group consisting of zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide, vanadium oxide, barium titanate, barium-strontium titanate, strontium titanate, calcium titanate, calcium zirconate, potassium tantalate, and potassium niobate.

Organic electroluminescent component with charge transport layer

A display screen, in particular a flat display screen, having a glass face plate with a transparent electrode layer of a metal oxide, for example indium-doped tin oxide (ITO), a phosphor layer and an adhesive intermediate layer of an alkali silicate between the electrode layer and the phosphor layer.

Display screen comprising an adhesive layer

The invention relates to a display screen comprising a phosphor composition of a sulphide and/or selenide-containing phosphor which is provided with a coating which comprises molybdenum (VI)-trioxide. In such display screens, the advantages of the efficient sulphide or selenide-containing phosphors can be used and said display screens remain bright and rich in contrast for a long period of time because the coating, which comprises molybdenum (VI)-trioxide, surprisingly acts as a stabilizing protective coating which limits the corrosion processes in sulphide and/or selenide-containing phosphors induced by low-energy radiation.

Luminescent screen containing phosphor particles coated with MoO.sub.3

A color display device, with an electron beam source and with an arrangement of pixels defined by blue, green and red-luminescing material, and including means for exciting the pixels, by scanning the pixel arrangement with excitation pulses a line at a time, exhibits enhanced luminance, is enhanced at a given radiation power and improved linearity of the luminance in dependence upon the electron energy density, by using luminescent materials at least two of which have a luminescence decay time shorter than the excitation pulse lengths.

Color display device having short decay phosphors

An organic electroluminescent component with a layer structure comprising

Organic electroluminescent component

The invention relates to a display screen comprising a phosphor composition of a sulphide and/or selenide-containing phosphor which is provided with a coating which comprises one or more catena-polyphosphates of one or more alkaline earth metals, zinc, cadmium and/or manganese. In such a display screen, in particular a low-energy cathode ray display screen, the advantages of the efficient sulphide or selenide-containing phosphors can be used and said display screen remains bright and rich in contrast for a long period of time because the coating acts as a stabilizing protective coating which limits the corrosion processes in sulphide and/or selenide-containing phosphors induced by low-energy radiation.

Luminescent phosphor screen containing catena-polyphosphate

The invention relates to a display screen comprising a phosphor composition of a sulphide and/or selenide-containing phosphor which is provided with a coating which is composed of germanium disulphide and/or germanium diselenide. In such a display screen, in particular a low-energy cathode ray display screen, the advantages of the efficient sulphide or selenide-containing phosphors can be used and said display screen remains bright and rich in contrast for a long period of time because the coating, which is composed of germanium disulphide and/or germanium diselenide, surprisingly acts as a stabilizing protective coating which limits the corrosion processes in sulphide and/or selenide-containing phosphors induced by low-energy radiation.

Luminescent screen

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Markus Haase