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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2003
Manfred Fuchs, Nümberg, DE;
Erich Hell, Gingen, DE;
Wolfgang Knüpfer, Erlangen, DE;
Detlef Mattern, Erlangen, DE;
Peter Röhrer, Bubenreuth, DE;
Manfred Fuchs, Nümberg, DE;
Erich Hell, Gingen, DE;
Wolfgang Knüpfer, Erlangen, DE;
Detlef Mattern, Erlangen, DE;
Peter Röhrer, Bubenreuth, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In a method for vapor-depositing a substrate with a layer of a needle-shaped x-ray fluorescent material containing at least one alkali metal, alkali halide phases and an alkali halide are mixed in a vapor phase and are vapor-deposited on the substrate. A needle-shaped fluorescent material is thereby produced having the formula wherein Mis at least one metal ion from the group Na, K, Rb and Cs, His at least one halide from the group F, Cl, Br and I and Sis at least one lanthanide ion from the group La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb or Lu.