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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2006
Masanori Ando, Ikeda, JP;
Norio Murase, Ikeda, JP;
Chunliang LI, Ikeda, JP;
Ping Yang, Ikeda, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides semiconductor-nanoparticle-dispersed small silica glass particles that emit bright fluorescent light with high fluorescence quantum yield and high density, compared to the conventional semiconductor-nanoparticle-dispersed small glass particles, and that have excellent fluorescence intensity stability over time; and a process for preparing the same. The semiconductor-nanoparticle-dispersed silica glass particles have a mean particle size of not less than 10 nanometers and not more than 5 micrometers, and contain a hydrolyzed alkoxide and semiconductor nanoparticles at a concentration of not less than 2×10mol/l and not more than 1×10mol/l. The particles emit fluorescent light with a fluorescence quantum yield (quantum yield) of 25% or more (and 60% or more), when dispersed in a solution.