luminescence Insights

What is luminescence?

Luminescence is the emission of light by a substance that has not been heated. It is thus a form of cold-body radiation. Luminescence occurs when an electron returns to its ground state after being excited to a higher energy level. The energy released is emitted as a photon of light. Common uses include fluorescent lighting, LED lighting, and various display technologies.

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What other technologies are related to luminescence?

luminescence Competitor Technologies

fluorescence

Fluorescence is a competing technology to luminescence as both are methods of light emission used in assays.

mentioned alongside luminescence in 15% (224) of relevant job posts

MSD

Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) uses electrochemiluminescence, a type of luminescence, but its platform competes with other luminescence-based technologies.

mentioned alongside luminescence in 2% (60) of relevant job posts

ELISA

ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay) is a plate-based assay technique designed for detecting and quantifying substances such as peptides, proteins, antibodies, and hormones. While some ELISAs use luminescence as a detection method, many others use absorbance or fluorescence, making them a competing technology.

mentioned alongside luminescence in 1% (172) of relevant job posts

luminescence Complementary Technologies

TR-FRET

Time-Resolved Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (TR-FRET) is a luminescence-based technology which uses energy transfer to measure molecular proximity, often used as an alternative or complement to standard luminescence assays.

mentioned alongside luminescence in 18% (64) of relevant job posts

HTRF

HTRF (Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence) is a specific type of TR-FRET, which in turn, is a luminescence-based technology and is therefore complementary.

mentioned alongside luminescence in 10% (58) of relevant job posts