Plasmon enhancement mechanism for the upconversion processes in NaYF 4:Yb3+,Er3+ nanoparticles: Maxwell versus Förster

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 7780-7792

  Lu, Dawei ^a   Cho, Suehyun K ^a   Ahn, Sungmo ^a   Brun, Loic ^b   Summers, Christopher J ^b   Park, Wounjhang ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

absorption enhancement; F rster energy transfer; photoluminescence; Purcell effect; surface plasmon; upconversion

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYELECTROLYTES; RARE EARTHS; SILVER; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; EXCITATION POWER DEPENDENCE; LAYER BY LAYER DEPOSITION; PURCELL EFFECT; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; UPCONVERSION MATERIALS; UPCONVERSION NANOPARTICLES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84906705998     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5011254     Document Type: Article

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