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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2012
Gleb M. Akselrod, Cambridge, MA (US);
Moungi G. Bawendi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vladimir Bulovic, Lexington, MA (US);
Jonathan R. Tischler, Boei Brak, IL;
William A. Tisdale, Watertown, MA (US);
Brian J. Walker, Cambridge, GB;
Gleb M. Akselrod, Cambridge, MA (US);
Moungi G. Bawendi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vladimir Bulovic, Lexington, MA (US);
Jonathan R. Tischler, Boei Brak, IL;
William A. Tisdale, Watertown, MA (US);
Brian J. Walker, Cambridge, GB;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are a device and a method for the design and fabrication of the device for enhancing the brightness of luminescent molecules, nanostructures, and thin films. The device includes a mirror, a dielectric medium or spacer, an absorptive layer, and a luminescent layer. The absorptive layer is a continuous thin film of a strongly absorbing organic or inorganic material. The luminescent layer may be a continuous luminescent thin film or an arrangement of isolated luminescent species, e.g., organic or metal-organic dye molecules, semiconductor quantum dots, or other semiconductor nanostructures, supported on top of the absorptive layer.