Transparent Plastic Microplasma Flexible Light Sources

We report on the first microplasma devices with cavities that are fabricated on both rigid and flexible transparent substrates by a polymer-based replica molding process. The process enables accurate and inexpensive production of plasma pixels with dimensions an order of magnitude smaller than conventional plasma television pixels, large uniform pixel arrays, and channels of arbitrary shape. The replica molding process may be performed over large surface areas for applications including video display, heads-up displays, medical phototherapy, photopolymerization, and photonic circuit light sources