Patent ID: 7605835

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an image carrier; at least one source of a beam of charged particles; and an array of ultra-small light-emitting resonant structures constructed and adapted to emit light onto the image carrier by resonating in response to exposure to the beam of charged particles directed generally along a length of the array and proximate each of the ultra-small light emitting structures in the array of ultra-small light emitting structures without touching the ultra-small light-emitting resonant structures such that the operation of the charged particles of the beam physically passing by but not touching the ultra-small light-emitting resonant structures causes the ultra-small light-emitting resonant structures to resonate at a wavelength of the emitted light, the ultra-small light-emitting resonant structures having a dimension smaller than the wavelength of the light emitted from the ultra-small light-emitting structures.