Enhancing multiphoton upconversion through energy clustering at sublattice level

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 157-162

  Wang, Juan ^a   Deng, Renren ^a   Macdonald, Mark A ^b   Chen, Bolei ^c   Yuan, Jikang ^c   Wang, Feng ^d   Chi, Dongzhi ^d   Andy Hor, Tzi Sum ^a,d   Zhang, Peng ^b   Liu, Guokui ^e   Han, Yu ^f   Liu, Xiaogang ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION QUENCHING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; DOPING CONCENTRATION; LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOUND; UP-CONVERSION EMISSION; UP-CONVERSION LUMINESCENCE; UPCONVERSION NANOCRYSTALS;

EXCITATION ENERGY; IONS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; QUENCHING;

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

EID: 84892985032     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3804     Document Type: Article

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