Synthesis of NaYF4: Yb3+, Er3+ upconverting nanocrystals in a capillary-based continuous microfluidic reaction system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7909, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Liu, Haichun ^a   Jakobsson, Ola ^a   Xu, Can T ^a   Xie, Haiyan ^a   Laurell, Thomas ^a,b   Andersson Engels, Stefan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Dongguk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Continuous flow; Microfluidic; Upconverting nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FLOWS; DIODE LASERS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICROFLUIDIC REACTIONS; RED EMISSIONS; UPCONVERTING NANOCRYSTALS;

ERBIUM; LASER EXCITATION; MICROFLUIDICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); YTTERBIUM;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 79952643518     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.874348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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