US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Dec. 2 for "Fast phosphors utilizing HP2H ligands" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,288, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to University of Southern California.

"Fast phosphors utilizing HP2H ligands" was invented by Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, Calif.) and Peter I. Djurovich (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound is described as having a triplet excited state and a singlet excited state; wherein the triplet excited state comprises a lowest energy triplet sublevel, a middle energy triplet sublevel, and a highest energy triplet sublevel; and wherein an energy separation between the highest energy triplet sublevel and the lowest energy triplet sublevel (ZFS) is greater than an energy separation betwee...