I-FIPEL - ukusungulwa okusha kwama-light bulb

Akusadingeki ukuthi usebenzise amaphesenti angu-90 wamandla emithonjeni yokukhanya, abasunguli bama-“light bulb” amasha asekelwe ku-electroluminescent polymers bathembisa. Igama elithi FIPEL livela kwisifinyezo se-Field-Induced Polymer Electroluminescent Technology.

“Lena ngeyokuqala ngempela ukusungulwa okusha iminyaka engaba ngu-30 namalambu okukhanya, »kusho uDkt. David Carroll waseWake Forest University eNorth Carolina, eU.SA, lapho ubuchwepheshe buthuthukiswa khona. Uyiqhathanisa namahhavini e-microwave, lapho imisebe ibangela ukuba ama-molecule wamanzi ekudleni anyakaze, akushise. Okufanayo kuyiqiniso ngezinto ezisetshenziswa ku FIPEL. Nokho, izinhlayiya ezijabulile zikhipha amandla okukhanya esikhundleni samandla okushisa.

Idivayisi yenziwe ngezingqimba ezimbalwa ezizacile ngokwedlulele (izinkulungwane eziyikhulu ezizacile kunozinwele zomuntu) ze-polymer ehlanganiswe phakathi kwe-aluminium electrode kanye nongqimba lwesibili olubonisa ngale. Ukuxhuma ugesi kukhuthaza ama-polymers ukuba akhanye.

Ukusebenza kahle kwe-FIPEL kuyafana nobuchwepheshe be-LEDnokho, ngokusho kwabasunguli, kunikeza ukukhanya ngombala ongcono, ofana nombala ovamile wemini.