Georges Destriau (1 August 1903 - 20 January 1960) was a French physicist and early observer of electroluminescence.[1][2]
Georges Destriau | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 August 1903 |
| Died | 20 January 1960 |
| Citizenship | France |
| Alma mater | École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures |
| Known for | Electroluminescence |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, chemistry |
| Institutions | |
Education and Research
editIn 1926 Destriau became an engineer at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris. Thereafter he worked in the x-ray device industry. From 1932 until 1941 Destriau worked at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. A brief stay at the University of Bordeaux was followed in 1943 by a move to Paris. In 1946 Destriau became professor at the University of Poitiers and in 1954 at the Sorbonne in Paris. Later Destriau worked for Westinghouse Electric.[3]
Destriau worked in the field of magnetism and X-ray dosimetry of ionizing radiation. Best-known is his research on electroluminescence, which he carried out in 1935 in the Paris laboratory of Marie Curie, who had died a year earlier. Destriau observed that zinc sulfide crystals fluoresced when doped with traces of copper ions and suspended in castor oil between two mica platelets, with a strong alternating electric field applied.[4] Later he replaced the castor oil and mica with a polymer binder.[5]
The effect of electroluminescence is therefore also referred to in some publications as the "Destriau effect". According to some publications, Destriau was the first to use the term "electrophotoluminescence".[6][7] In his publications, he himself called the light "Losev-Light", after the Russian radio frequency technician Oleg Losev, who in 1927 worked with silicon carbide crystals to induce a light effect (also electroluminescence).[8]
References
edit- ^ Luminescence of organic and inorganic materials: international conference. New York University, Wiley, 1962, S. 7.
- ^ H. Temerson: Biographies des principales personnalités françaises décédées au cours de l'année. Hachette, 1960, S. 75.
- ^ G. Destriau: Der Gedächtniseffekt bei der Verstärkung der Lumineszenz durch elektrische Felder. In: Zeitschrift für Physik A: Hadrons and Nuclei. 150, 1958, S. 447–455, doi:10.1007/BF01418633
- ^ G. Destriau: Recherches sur les scintillations des sulfures de zinc aux rayons. In: Journal de Chemie Physique. 33, 1936, S. 587–625.
- ^ I. Mackay: Thin film electroluminescence.[dead link] Master-Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1989.
- ^ C. H. Gooch: Injection electroluminescent devices. New York: Wiley, 1973, S. 2.
- ^ C. D. Munasinghe: Optimization of Rare Earth Doped Gallium Nitride Electroluminescent Devices for Flat Panel Display Applications. PhD-Thesis, University Of Cincinnati, 2005.
- ^ A. Ritter, "Lichtemittierende Smart Materials", in Smart Materials in Architektur, Innenarchitektur und Design., Band 3, 2007, S. 110–141, doi:10.1007/978-3-7643-8266-7_6 [1] at Google Books