Ultrasmall monodisperse NaYF4:Yb3+/Tm3+ nanocrystals with enhanced near-infrared to near-infrared upconversion photoluminescence

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3163-3168

  Chen, Guanying ^a   Ohulchanskyy, Tymish Y ^a   Kumar, Rajiv ^a   Ågren, Hans ^a,b   Prasad, Prasas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Nanocrystals; Near infrared; Rareearth ions; Upconversion photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

BIO-IMAGING; BIOAPPLICATIONS; IN-VITRO; MONODISPERSE; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL IMAGING; PL EFFICIENCY; PL EMISSION; RAREEARTH IONS; ULTRA-SMALL; UP-CONVERSION;

IONS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; YTTERBIUM;

INFRARED DEVICES;

FLUORIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SODIUM YTTRIUMTETRAFLUORIDE; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LUMINESCENCE; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUORIDES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; YTTRIUM;

EID: 77955860620     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100457j     Document Type: Article

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