Daniel Murnick

A highly efficient 172 nm rare gas Excimer lamp invented at Rutgers University, in combination with efficient phosphors has been demonstrated, showing the feasibility of creating a high power high efficiency non-mercury fluorescent lamp. A small mercury-free fluorescent white light lamp exhibits efficacies of 90 lumens per Watt, equal or better than that of compact fluorescent lamps containing mercury. Even higher efficiency is possible with the use of new phosphors under development.

Biography: Daniel Murnick received the Ph. D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a distinguished member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories prior to being appointed a Professor of Physics at Rutgers. While at Bell Labs, he was elected as a Fellow of The American Physical Society in both Atomic and Nuclear Physics, and received the Humboldt Award for Distinguished American Scientists from the government of Germany. In 1996 he was awarded the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award of the Research and Development Council of NJ for developing an instrument called the Laser Assisted Ratio Analyzer (LARA), a device for measuring isotopic ratios in carbon dioxide to high accuracy and at low cost. He holds several patents in the area of isotope analysis, ultraviolet light production and laser surface modification.

Address:Rutgers, , Newark, New Jersey, United States

Daniel Murnick of Rutgers University

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Address:Newark, New Jersey, United States