Excitation pulse duration response of upconversion nanoparticles and its applications

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have rich photophysics exhibiting complex luminescence kinetics. In this work, we thoroughly investigated the luminescence response of UCNPs to excitation pulse durations. Analyzing this response opens new opportunities in optical encoding/decoding...

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Autores: Labrador Páez, Lucía, Kostiv, Uliana, Liu, Qingyun, Li, Yuanyuan, Agren, Hans, Widengren, Jerker, Liu, Haichun
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/116480
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116480
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:544
Energy transfer
Ions
Kinetics
Luminescence
Nanoparticles
Química física (Química)
2307 Química Física
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Sumario:Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have rich photophysics exhibiting complex luminescence kinetics. In this work, we thoroughly investigated the luminescence response of UCNPs to excitation pulse durations. Analyzing this response opens new opportunities in optical encoding/decoding and the assignment of transitions to emission peaks and provides advantages in applications of UCNPs, e.g., for better optical sectioning and improved luminescence nanothermometry. Our work shows that monitoring the UCNP luminescence response to excitation pulse durations (while keeping the duty cycle constant) by recording the average luminescence intensity using a low-time resolution detector such as a spectrometer offers a powerful approach for significantly extending the utility of UCNPs.