RAPID GENOTYPING WITH SHORT MINOR GROOVE PROBES Not Available
The possibility that materials may be cooled through the
interaction of electro-magnetic radiation was recognized as
early as 1929. Fluorescent cooling occurs when a material
absorbs radiation at one wavelength and fluoresces at a shorter
wavelength. This is known as anti-stokes fluorescence. The
difference is photon energy is made up of energy removed from
the upper state thermal bands. Thus the material cools. Anti-
stokes fluorescent cooling in solids has been demonstrated by
means of atomic anti-stokes fluorescence in Yb+3 doped glass.
However molecular systems--could be much more efficient than
atomic systems if problems with long spontaneous lifetimes can
be overcome. This can be done by means of intramolecular
conversion of tautomers or by near resonance coupling of paired
molecular systems. Such molecular systems could be an order of
magnitude more efficient than atomic systems and the working
materials fabricated at low cost. BENEFITS: Deve