Tip Enhancement of Upconversion Photoluminescence from Rare Earth Ion Doped Nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3617-3626

  Mauser, Nina ^a   Piatkowski, Dawid ^b   Mancabelli, Tobia ^a   Nyk, Marcin ^c   Mackowski, Sebastian ^b   Hartschuh, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

optical antenna; rare earth ion doped crystals; tip enhanced near field optical microscopy; upconverted luminescence

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; IONS; METAL IONS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RARE EARTHS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES;

EXCITATION PROCESS; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL ANTENNAE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IMAGES; RARE-EARTH-ION DOPED CRYSTALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES; TIME-RESOLVED PL MEASUREMENT; TIP-SAMPLE DISTANCE;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 84928969784     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn504993e     Document Type: Article

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