Giant enhancement of upconversion fluorescence of NaYF4:Yb3+,Tm3+ nanocrystals with resonant waveguide grating substrate

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 530-536

  Lin, Jian Hung ^a   Liou, Hao Yu ^a   Wang, Chen Dao ^a   Tseng, Chun Yen ^b   Lee, Ching Ting ^b   Ting, Chu Chi ^a   Kan, Hung Chih ^a   Hsu, Chia Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

excitation resonance; extraction resonance; guided mode resonance; rare earth nanocrystals; resonant waveguide grating; upconversion

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ESTERS; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; NANOCRYSTALS; RARE EARTHS; RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; YTTERBIUM;

FLUORESCENT EMISSION; FLUORESCENT SIGNALS; GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; UP-CONVERSION; UPCONVERSION FLUORESCENCE; WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84927702597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500427k     Document Type: Article

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