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Oregon Inventors Develop Thermally-Sensitive Medium with Fabry-Perot Cavities

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Andrew L. Van Brocklin of Corvallis, Ore., and Timothy F. Myers of Philomath, Ore., have developed a method of forming a color image.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium includes a plurality of Fabry-Perot cavities of varying depths. The cavities correspond to different colors which are produced by the respective cavities under incident light. A thermo-sensitive material covers the plurality of cavities. The cavities are selectively exposed by heating portions of said thermo-sensitive material to alter the thermo-sensitive material where heated thereby forming an image."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,364,780 on April ...

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