Patent ID: 8118032

Claim:
A method of rapid repeated cooling and heating of molecules by up-converting energy medium comprising steps of: providing a molecule to be cooled and heated; providing an up-converting energy medium, wherein the up-converting energy medium is capable of being cooled by electromagnetic radiation at wavelength 1 and heated by electromagnetic radiation at wavelength 2 ; providing an electromagnetic source capable of radiating electromagnetic radiation at wavelength 1 and at wavelength 2 ; contacting the molecule with the up-converting energy medium; irradiating the up-converting energy medium with electromagnetic radiation at wavelength 1 to cool the molecule by the up-converting energy medium; irradiating the up-converting energy medium with electromagnetic radiation at wavelength 2 to heat the molecule by the up-converting energy medium; irradiating the up-converting energy medium with electromagnetic radiation at wavelength 1 to cool the molecule by the up-converting energy medium; and irradiating the up-converting energy medium with electromagnetic radiation at wavelength 2 to heat the molecule by the up-converting energy medium.