Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:3862 rec.audio:8371 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!rna!dan From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.audio Subject: Re: Looking for Blue LEDs Keywords: blue blue blue, not yellow or red or green Message-ID: <256@rna.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 18:22:30 GMT References: <1138@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <862@ritcv.UUCP> <595@ardent.UUCP> Reply-To: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology Lines: 9 In article <595@ardent.UUCP> sleat@ardent.UUCP (Michael Sleator) writes: >Of course, if you're suggesting a florescent pigment that absorbs red and >emits blue, that's another matter. I doubt that's what's going on, though. Yes, highly unlikely, since fluors absorb a higher energy photon and emit a lower energy photon. Blue is higher energy than red, not vice versa. Maybe its possible to have a fluor absorb two lower energy photons to emit a single higher energy one (absorb two red, output one blue), but then what will happen to the extra photoelectron kicking around ?