JOURNAL OF RARE EARTHS
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2025
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IF 7.2
Xiuna Tian,Hongjian Dou,Youfeng Wen,Lingyuan Wu,Changjun Wang,Zongwei Zhang,Youzi Zhang
In the field of disease diagnosis and treatment, achieving highly sensitive temperature sensing via non-contact methods based on fluorescence continues to present a significant challenge. This study investigated the influence of the cross-relaxation (CR) process of Tm 3+ ions at varying concentrations and the negative thermal expansion (NTE) property of the matrix on the luminescent properties of Sc 2 (MoO 4 ) 3 :Yb 3+ /Tm 3+ materials under diverse temperature conditions, and further evaluated their potential application value in the field of temperature sensing. At room temperature, the analysis of the concentration dependence of the emission spectra reveals that the intensities of the emission peaks originating from higher energy levels ( 1 G 4 , 3 H 4 , and 3 H 5 ) and the lowest excited state ( 3 F 4 ) exhibit significant variation with the doping concentration. As the doping concentration increases, the temperature enhancement factor for the fluorescence intensity of high-energy level transition ( 1 G 4 → 3 H 6 ) progressively decreases from 21.6 to 1.2. In contrast, the temperature enhancement factor for the lowest excited state transition ( 3 F 4 → 3 H 6 ) markedly increases from 471 to 2964. At a concentration of 8%, the temperature extension factor of the fluorescence lifetime at 1627 nm ( 3 F 4 → 3 H 6 ) can reach 7.2, whereas at a concentration of 0.5%, this factor is 2.7. These suggests that the CR process between Tm 3+ ions exerts markedly distinct influences on the luminescence intensities and lifetime in Sc 2 (MoO 4 ) 3 :Yb 3+ /Tm 3+ materials. In addition, this study employs the fluorescence intensity ratio of I 1629 nm / I 1197 nm for temperature sensing, thereby achieving high sensitivity in temperature measurement.
研究领域:
光学材料
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发光材料
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温度传感
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固体物理
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生物医学工程
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APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
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2019
·Vol. 125
·期 11
·1-8
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IF 1.784
Zhou Xinquan,Ju Guifang,Dai Tiansong,Li Yang,Wu Haoyi,Hu Yihua
Long-persistent phosphor and up-conversion particles used for optical imaging continue to interest researchers. The present work identifies an Er 3+ doped micro-sized CSAO-CSO mixed material that exhibits both up-conversion and persistent luminescence. The cross-relaxation that occurs among Er 3+ ions contributes to enhancing the up-conversion intensity. The Tm 3+ /Ho 3+ co-doped strategy was used to induce tunable up-conversion colors. The cross-relaxation process corresponding to the energy transfer mechanism was investigated via the luminescence lifetimes of Er 3+ . Moreover, the persistent luminescence and thermo-luminescence properties of CSAO-CSO: Er 3+ were also investigated systematically. Our results combine the fields of up-conversion and persistent luminescence, which may support other explorations of new kinds of long-persistent and up-conversion materials.
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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光学成像
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Nature Nanotechnology
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2022
·Vol. 17
·期 5
·524-530
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IF 40.523
Liang Yusen,Zhu Zhimin,Qiao Shuqian,Guo Xin,Pu Rui,Tang Huan,Liu Haichun,Dong Hao,Peng Tingting,Sun Ling-Dong,Widengren Jerker,Zhan Qiuqiang
A photon avalanche (PA) effect that occurs in lanthanide-doped solids gives rise to a giant nonlinear response in the luminescence intensity to the excitation light intensity. As a result, much weaker lasers are needed to evoke such PAs than for other nonlinear optical processes. Photon avalanches are mostly restricted to bulk materials and conventionally rely on sophisticated excitation schemes, specific for each individual system. Here we show a universal strategy, based on a migrating photon avalanche (MPA) mechanism, to generate huge optical nonlinearities from various lanthanide emitters located in multilayer core/shell nanostructrues. The core of the MPA nanoparticle, composed of Yb 3+ and Pr 3+ ions, activates avalanche looping cycles, where PAs are synchronously achieved for both Yb 3+ and Pr 3+ ions under 852 nm laser excitation. These nanocrystals exhibit a 26th-order nonlinearity and a clear pumping threshold of 60 kW cm −2 . In addition, we demonstrate that the avalanching Yb 3+ ions can migrate their optical nonlinear response to other emitters (for example, Ho 3+ and Tm 3+ ) located in the outer shell layer, resulting in an even higher-order nonlinearity (up to the 46th for Tm 3+ ) due to further cascading multiplicative effects. Our strategy therefore provides a facile route to achieve giant optical nonlinearity in different emitters. Finally, we also demonstrate applicability of MPA emitters to bioimaging, achieving a lateral resolution of ~62 nm using one low-power 852 nm continuous-wave laser beam.
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光学
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纳米技术
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
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2021
·Vol. 32
·期 5
·6269-6282
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IF 2.478
Chen Zhangxu,Fu Minglian,Zheng Bingyun,Zhu Danchen,Chen Zefan
The influencing factors of chelator, reaction times, and Yb 3+ /Tm 3+ -doped concentration on the formation of NaYF 4 :Yb,Tm crystals with various morphologies have been investigated and determined. It is found that NaYF 4 :Yb,Tm with various morphologies and different phases can be tuned. Compared with the addition of ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid, hexagonal nanoprism-like β-NaYF 4 :Yb,Tm with a mean length of ~ 1300 nm and diameter of ~ 100 nm is prepared in the presence of oleic acid, which preferentially orients along with the [0001] direction more quickly than others. Systematical research on the emission of Yb 3+ /Tm 3+ -doped NaYF 4 crystals with microrod, hexagonal microprism, and nanoplate has implied that these obtained crystals with unique optical properties are closely related to their morphologies, phases, and sizes. In addition, a possible growth mechanism of co-existence of α- and β-NaYF 4 phases is proposed. It can be expected to illustrate the formation mechanism for the upconversion crystals or other rare-earth upconversion materials and to import these highly luminescent microcrystals or nanocrystals to environmental remediation by full solar energy spectra.
研究领域:
材料科学
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纳米技术
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光学材料
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环境科学
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Nanophotonics
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2020
·Vol. 9
·期 6
·1519-1528
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IF 7.491
Xiaoru Dai,Ke Wang,Lei Lei,Shiqing Xu,Yao Cheng,Yuansheng Wang
Lanthanide up-conversion features stepwise multi-photon processes, where the difference in photon number that is required for specific up-conversion process usually leads to significant variance in pumping-related processes/properties. In this work, a pumping-controlled dual-mode anti-counterfeiting strategy is conceived by taking advantage of the combination of up-conversion processes with different photon numbers. The combination of Er 3+ and Tm 3+ , which are spatially separated within a designed core/triple-shell nano-architecture, is taken as an example to illustrate such idea. Upon infrared excitation, the emission color of a designed pattern can be switched from red to purple by increasing the excitation power density from 5 to 11 W/cm 2 , while a bright luminescent trajectory including red, white and blue-green color with different length is observed when rotating the pattern above 600 rpm. In addition, the relative up-conversion emission intensities of the Er 3+ and Tm 3+ ions can be manipulated through tailoring interfacial or inner defects in the core/triple-shell nano-crystals, which enable an ultrahigh sensitivity for the pumping-controlled emission color variation to be observed under excitation power well below 11 W/cm 2 .
研究领域:
材料科学
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纳米技术
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光学
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光子学
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Nature Communications
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2023
·Vol. 14
·期 1
·1-10
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IF 16.6
Jiang Zhao,He Liangrui,Yang Zhiwen,Qiu Huibin,Chen Xiaoyuan,Yu Xujiang,Li Wanwan
Distinctive upconversion or downshifting of lanthanide nanocrystals holds promise for biomedical and photonic applications. However, either process requires high-energy lasers at discrete wavelengths for excitation. Here we demonstrate that co-sensitization can break this limitation with ultrawide excitation bands. We achieve co-sensitization by employing Nd 3+ and Ho 3+ as the co-sensitizers with complementary absorptions from the ultraviolet to infrared region. Symmetric penta-layer core-shell nanostructure enables tunable fluorescence in the visible and the second near-infrared window when incorporating different activators (Er 3+ , Ho 3+ , Pr 3+ , and Tm 3+ ). Transient spectra confirm the directional energy transfer from sensitizers to activators through the bridge of Yb 3+ . We validate the features of the nanocrystals for low-powered white light-emitting diode-mediated whole-body angiography of mice with a signal-to-noise ratio of 12.3 and excitation-regulated encryption. This co-sensitization strategy paves a new way in lanthanide nanocrystals for multidirectional photon conversion manipulation and excitation-bandwidth-regulated fluorescence applications.
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纳米技术
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生物光子学
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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