Lanthanide 4f-level location in lanthanide doped and cerium-lanthanide codoped NaLaF[sub 4] by photo- and thermoluminescence

Lanthanide 4f-level location in AVO(4):Ln(3+) (A = La, Gd, Lu) crystals.

The spectral properties of LaVO(4), GdVO(4) and LuVO(4) crystals doped with Ce(3+), Pr(3+), Eu(3+) or Tb(3+) have been investigated in order to determine the position of the energy levels relative to the valence and conduction bands of the hosts along the trivalent and divalent lanthanide series. Pr(3+) and Tb(3+) ground state levels are positioned based on the electron transfer energy from tho...

Lanthanide - doped upconversion nanoparticles

Lanthanide impurity level location in GaN, AlN, and ZnO

A method that has proven succesful in locating the energy levels of divalent and trivalent lanthanide ions (Ce, Pr,..., Eu,...Yb, Lu) in wide band gap inorganic compounds like YPO4 and CaF2 is applied to locate lanthanide levels in the wideband semiconductors GaN, AlN, their solid solutions AlxGa1-xN, and ZnO. The proposed schemes provide a description of relevant optical and luminescence prope...

Synthesis and Applications of Lanthanide-Doped Nanocrystals

In recent years, Lanthanide (Ln3+)-doped nanocrystals have become promising alternatives to organic fluorophore because Ln3+ ions can exhibit unique luminescent properties, such as large anti-Stokes shifts, low auto fluorescence background, low toxicity and high penetration depth [1]. In terms of the mechanism of luminescence, luminescence of Ln3+ ions can be divided into down-conversion and up...

Enhancing luminescence in lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles.

The enthusiasm for research on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles is driven by both a fundamental interest in the optical properties of lanthanides embedded in different host lattices and their promise for broad applications ranging from biological imaging to photodynamic therapy. Despite the considerable progress made in the past decade, the field of upconversion nanoparticles has bee...