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Intense ultraviolet upconversion emission from water-dispersed colloidal YF3:Yb3+/Tm3+ rhombic nanodisks

  • Hailong Qiu
  • , Guanying Chen
  • , Rongwei Fan
  • , Liming Yang
  • , Cheng Liu
  • , Shuwei Hao
  • , Michael J. Sailor
  • , Hans Ågren
  • , Chunhui Yang
  • , Paras N. Prasad
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • University of California at San Diego
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • Harbin Medical University
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Intense ultraviolet upconversion emission has been observed in water-dispersed uniform rhombic nanodisks (side length of ∼14 nm and thickness of ∼2.5 nm) of YF3 co-doped with Yb3+ sensitizer and Tm3+ activator ions, when excited at ∼980 nm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)753-757
Number of pages5
JournalNanoscale
Volume6
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 21 2014

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