Electroluminescent lamp designs

An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a substrate;
• (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate;
• (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer;
• (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material;
• wherein at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive layers includes one or more openings through the layer, the openings being separated by electrically conductive elements, wherein the openings have edges and at least one of the openings has a minimum edge to edge distance of less than about 0.005 inches.

An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a substrate;
• (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate;
• (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer;
• (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material;
• wherein at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive layers includes one or more openings through the layer, the openings being separated by electrically conductive elements, and wherein at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive elements has a width of less than about 0.002 inches.

An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a substrate;
• (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate;
• (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer;
• (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material;
• wherein at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive layers includes one or more openings through the layer, the openings being separated by electrically conductive elements, wherein the shape of the openings is approximately square and the length of a side of at least one of the openings is less than about 0.003 inches and at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive elements has a width of less than about 0.005 inches.

An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a substrate;
• (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate;
• (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer;
• (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material;
• wherein at least a portion of both of the electrically conductive layers includes one or more openings through the layer, the openings being separated by electrically conductive elements.

An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a substrate;
• (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate;
• (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer;
• (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material;
• wherein at least one of the electrically conductive layers is deposited in a pattern including a plurality of elongated electrically conductive elements separated by one or more channels and wherein at least a portion of one of the elongated electrically conductive elements has a width of less than about 0.005 inches.

An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a substrate;
• (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate;
• (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer;
• (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material;
• wherein at least one of the electrically conductive layers is deposited in a pattern including a plurality of elongated electrically conductive elements separated by one or more channels and wherein at least a portion of one of the channels has a width of less than about 0.005 inches.

An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a substrate;
• (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate;
• (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer;
• (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material;
• wherein the substrate provided in step (a) includes a translucent or transparent electrically conductive material and in step (b) the first electrically conductive layer is printed onto at least a portion of the translucent or transparent electrically conductive material.