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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1996
Rhett L Affleck, Los Alamos, NM (US);
W Patrick Ambrose, Los Alamos, NM (US);
James N Demas, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Peter M Goodwin, Jemez Springs, NM (US);
Mitchell E Johnson, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Richard A Keller, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Jeffrey T Petty, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Jay A Schecker, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Ming Wu, Los Alamos, NM (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Abstract
The detectability of luminescent molecules in solution is enhanced by reducing the background luminescence due to impurity species also present in the solution. A light source that illuminates the solution acts to photolyze the impurities so that the impurities do not luminesce in the fluorescence band of the molecule of interest. Molecules of interest may be carried through the photolysis region in the solution or may be introduced into the solution after the photolysis region.