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 United States Patent Application: 0020117961
A semi-conductor light-emitting element as defined in claim 8, wherein the buffer layer is made of an Al-including semi-conducting nitride material, and the Al content of the buffer layer is increased continuously or stepwisely from the substrate toward the underlayer.
Therefore, if such a rare earth metal element and/or a transition metal element is incorporated in the light-emitting layer as an additive element, it may be excited by the luminescence of the light-emitting layer, and thus, generate and emit a given light with its inherent wavelength, that is, a given color light.
The content of the additive element is not restricted, and determined appropriately on the material composition of the fourth semi-conducting nitride material such as the i-AlGaN composing the light-emitting layer 5 and the desired luminescence intensity.
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 Light Bulbs
Single Element/Double Contact, 12-16 volt, 15 CP, Interior Light Bulb, Standard size 2-pin base, pins directly across, 1 15/16" tall.
Single Element, Single contact, 6-8 Volt, 50 Candle Power, Fog light bulb, Standard size 2-pin base, pins directly across, 2" tall.
Single Element, Single contact, 6-8 Volt, 32 Candle Power, Backup light bulb, Standard size 2-pin base, pins directly across, 2" tall.
taillightking.com /light_bulbs.htm?ArdSI=2a2f396967c7706d5d172ac64e0...   (3258 words)

  
 United States Patent Application: 0040198455
A terminal according to claim 6 further comprising a housing capable of encapsulating at least a portion of the light emitting elements, wherein said controller is capable of controlling the operation of the light emitting elements to thereby illuminate at least a portion of said housing.
A terminal according to claim 6, wherein said controller is capable of controlling the operation of the light emitting elements to thereby illuminate a region of said display upon which the at least one entry is presented.
A terminal according to claim 2, wherein said controller is capable of controlling the operation of the light emitting elements to thereby illuminate at least a portion of the terminal.
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 Chrono Cross Characters: Pip
Split the Element colors up into two "teams", Light and Dark.
Light then Dark or Dark then Light: Pip has horns plus butterfly wings.
There are a total of five new forms he can change into (the first two are the first evolution, the last three are his final forms):
www.rpgclassics.com /shrines/psx/cc/pip.shtml   (464 words)

  
 Inorganic thin film electroluminescent device having an emission layer - US Patent 5543237
The rare earth elements may be used as it is in the form of a metal, or may be in the form of compounds of the rare earth element and at least one element selected from fluorine, chloride, bromine, iodine and oxygen.
The inorganic thin film electroluminescent device of claim 17, wherein said at least one member is a compound of a rare earth element selected from the group consisting of compounds of said rare earth element with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, or oxygen, and mixtures thereof.
The inorganic thin film electroluminescent device claim 1, wherein said at least one member is a compound of a rare earth element selected from the group consisting of compounds of said rare earth element and fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, oxygen and mixtures thereof.
www.patentstorm.us /patents/5543237.html   (2986 words)

  
 World Museum of Mining - Community Outreach
Lanthanum is used in eyeglasses to reduce the dispersion of light into its component colors, and high-quality sunglasses contain rare earths to help absorb ultraviolet light.
Fluorescent light tubes contain rare-earth elements to produce brighter white light as well as colors.
Because rare-earth elements, including such strangely named elements as cerium, lutetium, erbium, and yttrium, are in products you use every day.
www.miningmuseum.org /outreach2.htm   (388 words)

  
 Patent 5491552: Optical interferometer employing mutually coherent light source and an array detector for imaging in strongly scattered media
The collimated light of the light source is split by means of a beam-splitter and is incident in the reference arm on a mirror and in the object arm, after appropriate focusing, on the object.
Due to spatial overlap from a grid, the coherence length of the source determines the size of the detector element which is necessary to initiate reflections in the sample and not the separation of the edges in the unconverted interferogram.
Light emitted from an incoherent point shaped light source So is collimated with the assistance of a lens C into a parallel light beam of approximately 10 mm diameter.
www.freepatentsonline.com /5491552.html   (388 words)

  
 Neutrino as Dark Matter ?
From Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Theory, astrophysicists can calculate the primordial light element abundances (D, He-3, He-4, Li-7) relative to the proton using only one undetermined parameter 'baryon-to-light ratio'
It's amazing that the astronomical observation on the light element abundances can fix the
It's a triumph of BBN theory, and also indicate that the baryon mass can only contribute at most 10% of the critical mass density for the universe to close.
www.ph.utexas.edu /~chongyu/neutrino/dark_matter.htm   (110 words)

  
 Out of Body and Near Death Experiences, meditation, story, christian, description,sign,Jesus
One of the researchers, Melvin Morse, M.D., reported that children who are free of cultural and religious conditioning experiences the same common elements of NDE listed in the next section as adults.
They are: a sense of being dead, peace and painlessness, out-of-body experience - consciousness of the environment after being pronounced clinically dead, the tunnel experience, people of light, the being of light, the life review, rising rapidly into the heavens, reluctance to return (The Light Beyond, Raymond Moody, p.
These words describe an out-of-body “phenomenon in which a person feels separated from his or her physical body and seems to be able to move to, and perceive, distant locations on earth or in nonworldly realms (Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experiences, p.
www.occult-advances.org /nc-spi-near-death-experience.shtml   (2407 words)

  
 Absorption Spectra
When photons from the light source make their way through this gas, some of them can interact with the atoms--provided that they have just the right frequency to bump an electron of that element up to a higher energy level.
Then the spectrum of light that had been through the gas would just have some gaps in it, at the frequencies that were absorbed.
In order to reach earth, sunlight needs to pass through the sun's atmosphere, which is a lot cooler than the part of the sun where light is emitted.
www.colorado.edu /physics/2000/quantumzone/fraunhofer.html   (433 words)

  
 Splicing of the period Gene 3'-Terminal Intron Is Regulated by Light, Circadian Clock Factors, and Phospholipase C -- Majercak et al. 24 (8): 3359 -- Molecular and Cellular Biology
Splicing of the period Gene 3'-Terminal Intron Is Regulated by Light, Circadian Clock Factors, and Phospholipase C -- Majercak et al.
Splicing of the period Gene 3'-Terminal Intron Is Regulated by Light, Circadian Clock Factors, and Phospholipase C
Involvement of the period gene in developmental time-memory: effect of the per Short mutation on phase shifts induced by light pulses delivered to Drosophila larvae.
mcb.asm.org /cgi/content/full/24/8/3359   (433 words)

  
 It's Elemental - The Element Tungsten
Tungsten has the highest melting point of all metallic elements and is used to make filaments for incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs and television tubes.
Tungsten is also used as a target for X-ray production, as heating elements in electric furnaces and for parts of spacecraft and missiles which must withstand high temperatures.
Tungsten disulfide (WS) is a dry lubricant that can be used to temperatures as high as 500°C. Tungsten forms compounds with calcium and magnesium that have phosphorescent properties and are used in fluorescent light bulbs.
education.jlab.org /itselemental/ele074.html   (343 words)

  
 Cambridge Treasure Trap - Magic Rules
Cantrips are "Level 0" spells and so "By the power of the element of light - Flash!" is adequate.
Therefore, a first level spell might be triggered with the vocal "By the power of the mighty element of water - Douse!" but a ninth level spell would require "By the power of the element of darkness, I command that all here be filled with terror - Terror!".
Conventionally their relationship is represented as a compass with Earth, Water, Air and Fire at the cardinal points and an axis through the centre placing Light above the other five elements and Darkness below them.
www.treasure-trap.ath.cx /MagicRules.html   (343 words)

  
 World Intellectual Property Organization
Additionally or alternatively, the at least one reflecting optical element is operative to collimate at least one of multiple colors of light received by the optical signal receiving element.
In accordance with another preferred embodiment, the at least one reflecting optical element is operative to focus at least one of multiple colors of light received by the optical signal-receiving element.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the at least one optical signal receiving element is operative to convert an optical signal to an electrical signal.
www.wipo.int /ipdl/IPDL-CIMAGES/view/pct/getbykey5?KEY=03/88286.031023&ELEMENT_SET=DECL   (8180 words)

  
 Atomic ORME and S-ORME States of the Transition Group Elements
To resume, the transition group elements with their superdeformed "soft" nuclei all resonating to a single frequency, in their high spin low energy state, becoming a wave flow of light in a resonant unified entity, are a resonance coupled system of quantum oscillators, harmonically coupled in two dimensions.
Hudson believes that these elements in their monoatomic state correct DNA and are, in fact, the "light of life".
Researchers have theorized that when the nucleus of a transition group element is superdeformed and in the high spin state, a positive "screening potential" around the nucleus (the positive field produced by the nucleus that screens all but the valence electrons) expands out and covers all of the electrons of the element.
www.hbci.com /~wenonah/new/hudson.htm   (3901 words)

  
 Science Briefs
Superheavy Element 114 and the Island of Stability
The new element was made by focusing a very high energy beam of Ca-48 atoms onto a target of Pu-244.
In contrast to the electrons of very light atoms, electrons of heavy atoms orbit their nuclei at speeds that are a significant fraction of the speed of light.
homepages.ius.edu /mcady/Science_Briefs.htm   (799 words)

  
 196th Light Infantry Brigade History
It operated throughout northern Vietnam, and after the division closed out of Vietnam, 29 November 1971, the 196th Light Infantry Brigade was reconstituted as a separate (provisional) brigade-sized element to safeguard the same area of operations.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade was raised again at Fort Devens, MA in September 1965 and originally scheduled to be sent to the Dominican Republic in mid-1966, but was rushed to Vietnam instead and posted in the western portion of the III Corps Tactical Zone.
The 196th Infantry Brigade was first organized in 1921 as an element of the Army Reserve's 98th Division.
www.196th.org /History.htm   (352 words)

  
 Art & Physics
Whether it was the miracle of fire or the life-giving rays from the sun, light in and of itself has always been the most mysterious element.
It has been accorded a prominent place in all religions of the world, and discoveries in modern physics revealed that it was the unique nature of light that held the key to unlocking the secrets of the other four.
In one of the first great syntheses of science (and, I might add, one of the first known compromises), Empedocles proposed that perhaps there was not just one primordial element but rather four.
www.artandphysics.com /c_main1f.html   (820 words)

  
 Incandescent light bulb -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The incandescent light bulb is still widely used in domestic applications, and is the basis of most portable lighting (for instance, some car (A powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive) headlamps and electric (A light carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance) torches).
This is one reason why fluorescent lighting is so popular in commercial spaces, as it also reduces the need for (A system that keeps air cool and dry) air conditioning in the (The warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox) summer.
Eventually on October 6, 1889, a judge ruled that Edison's electric light improvement claim for "a filament of carbon of high resistance" was valid.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/in/incandescent_light_bulb.htm   (3065 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Black Light/The Caves of Terror
While in Caves of Terror the extremely fast-paced adventure tends to obscure the mysticism, in Black Light the adventure element is extremely minimal, but the novel is deeply steeped in Oriental mysticism.
I read Black Light when I was about 20 and found it exceedingly tedious, however, I'm sure that I would have found Caves of Terror wonderfully exciting back then.
Now some 20-odd years later, upon rereading Black Light, I found much substance and thought-provoking matter, whereas Caves of Terror seemed more a pyrotechnic display of super-science gadgets, without a great deal of supporting plot.
www.sfsite.com /04a/lt125.htm   (1443 words)

  
 196th Light Infantry Brigade History
It operated throughout northern Vietnam, and after the division closed out of Vietnam, 29 November 1971, the 196th Light Infantry Brigade was reconstituted as a separate (provisional) brigade-sized element to safeguard the same area of operations.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade was raised again at Fort Devens, MA in September 1965 and originally scheduled to be sent to the Dominican Republic in mid-1966, but was rushed to Vietnam instead and posted in the western portion of the III Corps Tactical Zone.
The 196th Infantry Brigade was first organized in 1921 as an element of the Army Reserve's 98th Division.
www.196th.org /History.htm   (1443 words)

  
 Rare Earths
Rare earths are used as catalysts in automotive catalytic converters, as iron and steel additives, as ceramic and glass additives for their decolorizing properties, as light-emitting substances (phosphors), and as components in electronic devices, permanent magnets, light bulbs, and in various aspects of research.
The rare earth metals are a family of 17 elements consisting of scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanum-group elements.
The term "rare earths" is a misnomer, as some of these elements are not particularly rare and all of them are metals, not earths.
www.state.ar.us /agc/rare.htm   (432 words)

  
 Etienne, "De Obscurité et Lumière"
However, the element Fire can harm Darkness, as it brings bound within it the power of the Sixth Element, Light.
Danaan, on her turn, was created with the Universe, thus making Light a primordial element.
Darkness, on the other hand, as an element, was created by wizards, out of greed and will of conquest and destruction.
www.darkages.com /community/phi/Etienne_DarkLight.html   (1502 words)

  
 Proteus
The disciples of the school of Pherecydes taught that ether (Zeus or Zen) is the highest empyrean heaven, which enclosed the supernal world, and its light (the astral) is the concentrated primordial element.
He is a man and an immortal nymph (male and female element); the soul of all things; and the principal motor in fire.
To a certain extent we can learn of the degree of the solar heat, light, and nature of the planets by simply studying their symbolic representations in the Olympic gods, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, to each of which in astrology is attributed a particular quality.
www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ListOfCollatedArticles/Proteus.html   (2049 words)

  
 Astro-ph for busy people
We give the dust depletion factors for various elements of observational relevance and a brief discussion of the implications of dust formation for the IMF evolution of the first stars, cosmic reionization and the intergalactic medium.
BBN accurately predicts the primordial light element abundances $^4$He, D, $^3$He and $^7$Li, depending on one parameter, the baryon density.
Light element observations are used as a baryometers.
www.camk.edu.pl /~gwar/astro-ph/2003.07.07.html   (5287 words)

  
 Patent 5721622: Grayscale printing with spatial light modulator and sliding window memory
Light from a light source 14 is reflected by DMD 12 onto an OPC drum 16, in accordance with the "on" or "off" state of each mirror element.
The presence of a defective element on a spatial light modulator (12) is compensated for using a background value.
With pulse duration modulation, the duration of a pulse is controlled, either by pulsing the light or by switching the mirrors, such that the exposure level is adjusted by controlling the length of time that the light shines on the OPC drum.
www.freepatentsonline.com /5721622.html   (5287 words)

  
 Cis-acting Elements and Trans-acting Factors
The element controls light regulation since light is required for the enhanced levels of expression (pABN1, pABN2, pABN3).
Insertion of the element, again in either orientation, before the 3' end of the gene increased seed expression but not to the level seen when the insertion was made into the promoter.
The effects of a promoter element from the pea chlorophyll a/b binding protein gene on gene expression was reported in 1986 (Nature 323:551).
www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/mcclean/plsc731/cis-trans/cis-trans2.htm   (5287 words)

  
 CHP - Atomic-Absorption Spectroscopy
The light source is usually a hollow-cathode lamp of the element that is being measured.
The disadvantage of these narrow-band light sources is that only one element is measurable at a time.
Atomic-absorption (AA) spectroscopy uses the absorption of light to measure the concentration of gas-phase atoms.
www.chem.vt.edu /chem-ed/spec/atomic/aa.html   (394 words)

  
 It's Elemental - The Element Tungsten
Tungsten has the highest melting point of all metallic elements and is used to make filaments for incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs and television tubes.
Tungsten is also used as a target for X-ray production, as heating elements in electric furnaces and for parts of spacecraft and missiles which must withstand high temperatures.
Tungsten is alloyed with steel to form tough metals that are stable at high temperatures.
education.jlab.org /itselemental/ele074.html   (343 words)

  
 www.kusadasidiamonds.com
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www.kusadasidiamonds.com   (1936 words)

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