SBIR Phase I: Nanoparticle-Based Photostimulated Luminescent Optical Storage

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的重点是开发能够产生光刺激发光（PSL）的纳米复合材料，并证明它们在室温下持续发光的能力，这将支持实际应用。用这种材料成功生产PSL将表明，该技术可用于制造x射线和其他成像技术的光学存储介质。基于纳米粒子的PSL光存储系统将在较低的生产能量水平下提供更高分辨率的图像。由于x射线和类似技术在医疗行业、制造业、安全领域、检查和无损检测过程以及许多其他应用领域的广泛使用，拟议的方法将大大降低使用这些过程的成本、复杂性、危害和其他负面影响。这项技术将适用于几乎所有的x射线处理和许多其他成像和信息存储技术。

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I project focuses on the development of nanocomposite materials that are capable of producing photostimulated luminescence (PSL) and the demonstration of their ability to do so at room temperature for durations that would support practical applications. Successful production of PSL with such materials would suggest that this technology could be used to create optical storage media for X-ray and other imaging techniques. Nanoparticle-based PSL optical storage systems would provide images with higher resolution at lower levels of production energy. Because of the extensive use of X-ray and similar technologies in the medical industry, manufacturing, security field, inspection and non-destructive testing processes, and many other applications, the proposed approach would offer substantial reductions in costs, complexity, hazards, and other negative aspects of the use of these processes.This technology will be applicable to virtually all X-ray processes and many other imaging and information storage techniques.