Component Illustration of a Micro-Cavity Array (IMAGE)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Component Illustration of a Micro-Cavity Array

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A research team funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research has pioneered the use of micro-plasmas in a revolutionary approach to illumination. Just as in a fluorescent light, a micro-cavity array is energized by an applied voltage. By successfully confining that plasma in parallel rows of micro-cavities within thin sheet materials, Drs. Gary Eden and Sung-Jin Park of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, ultimately arrived at various implementations of micro-plasma arrays, which result in inexpensive, wafer-thin, and very flexible sheets of light.

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Courtesy of Eden Park Illumination

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