Solid-state radioluminescent zeolite-containing composition and light sources

US5100587A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Department of Energy · US

Inventors

• Roger L. Clough · Albuquerque, US
• John T. Gill · Miamisburg, US
• Daniel B. Hawkins · Fairbanks, US
• Clifford L. Renschler · Tijeras, US
• Timothy J. Shepodd · Livermore, US
• Henry M. Smith · Overland Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 1990
• Grant date: Mar 31, 1992
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S423/07
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A new type of RL light source consisting of a zeolite crystalline material, the intralattice spaces of which a tritiated compound and a luminophore are sorbed, and which material is optionally further dispersed in a refractive index-matched polymer matrix.