Electroluminescent system, electrically non-linear element and method

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AN ELECTROLUMINESCENT SYSTEM DISPLAYING A BRIGHTNESS WHICH INCREASES RAPIDLY WITH INCREASNG ALTERNATING POTENTIAL EXCITATION AND COMPRISING: SPACED ELECTRODES; MEANS FOR APPLYING ALTERNATING ELECTRIC POTENTIAL OF DIFFERENT MAGNITUDES ACROSS SAID SPACED ELECTRODES; ALTERNATING-ELECTRIC-FIELD-INFLUENCED ELECTROLUMINESCENT PHOSPHOR MEANS COMPRISING A SEPARATE LAYER INCLUDED BETWEEN SAID SPACED ELECTRODES AND EXHIBITING AN ALTERNATING-ELECTRICPOTENTIAL DROP THEREACROSS (V1) VARYING WITH THE MAGNITUDE OF THE EXCITING ALTERNATING ELECTRIC POTENTIAL APPLIED ACROSS SAID SPACED ELECTRODES; INSULATING MEANS INCLUDED IN SUFFICIENT AMOUNT BETWEEN SAID SPACED ELECTRODES TO PREVENT ANY DIRECT CURRENT FLOW THEREBETWEEN AND TO INCREASE THE ALTERNATING ELECTRIC POTENTIAL REQUIRED TO CAUSE BREAKDOWN THEREBETWEEN; ALTERNATING-ELECTRICFIELD-INFLUENCED, NON-PHOTOCONDUCTIVE- AND NON-ELECTROLUNINESCENT MEANS COMPRISING A SEPARATE LAYER INCLUDED BETWEEN SAID SPACED ELECTRODES AND EXHIBITING AN ALTERNATING ELECTRIC POTENTIAL DROP THEREACROSS (V2) VARYING WITH THE MAGNITUDE OF THE ALTERNATING ELECTRIC POETNTIAL APPLIED ACROSS SAID SPACED ELECTRODES; WHEN ALTERNATING ELECTRIC POTENTIAL IS APPLIED ACROSS SAID SPACED ELECTRODES, THE CAPACITIVE REACTANCE DISPLAYED BY THE LAYER COMPRISING SAID PHOSPHOR MEANS BEING LESS THAN THE CAPACTIVE REACTANCE DISPLAYED BY THE LAYER COMPRISING SAID FIELDINFLUENCED NON-ELECTROLUMINESCENT MEANS; AND THE FIELDINFLUENCED CHARACTERISTICS OF SAID ELECTROLUMINESCENT PHOSPHOR MEANS AND SAID FIELD-INFLUENCED NON-ELECTROLUMINESCENT MEANS HAVING SUCH RELATION TO ONE ANOTHER THAT THE RATIO OF POTENTIAL DROPS THEREACROSS EXPRESSED AS V1/V2 INCREASES WHEN THE ALTERNATING ELECTRIC POTENTIAL APPLIED ACROSS SAID SPACED ELECTRODES IS INCREASED IN MAGNITUDE.