Prevalence of anisotropic shell growth in rare earth core-shell upconversion nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4393-4402

  Zhang, Chao ^a   Lee, Jim Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

anisotropy; core shell; photoluminescence; rare earth; upconversion nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; CORE-SHELL; CORE-SHELL NANOCRYSTALS; CORE-SHELL NANOSTRUCTURES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DIRECTIONS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; SELECTIVE ADSORPTION; UPCONVERSION NANOCRYSTALS;

ANISOTROPY; LATTICE MISMATCH; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RARE EARTHS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

LANTHANIDE; NANOPARTICLE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; LUMINESCENCE;

ANISOTROPY; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; METALS, RARE EARTH; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84878268764     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4009214     Document Type: Article

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