Upconversion excitations in Pr3+-doped BaY2F8 crystal

Lanthanide - doped upconversion nanoparticles

Anti-Stokes luminescence cooling of Tm3+ doped BaY2F8.

We report laser-induced cooling with thulium-doped BaY2F8 single crystals grown using the Czochralski technique. The spectroscopic characterization of the crystals has been used to evaluate the laser cooling performance of the samples. Cooling by 3 degrees below ambient temperature is obtained in a single-pass geometry with 4.4 Watts of pump laser power at lambda = 1855 nm.

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...

Transparent Oxyfluoride Nano-Glass Ceramics Doped with Pr3+ and Pr3+–Yb3+ for NIR Emission

1 Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 2 Microdevices for Photonics Laboratory (MIP-LAB), Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, 3 Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, Italy, 4 Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica, Co...

Sensing Using Rare-Earth-Doped Upconversion Nanoparticles

Optical sensing plays an important role in theranostics due to its capability to detect hint biochemical entities or molecular targets as well as to precisely monitor specific fundamental psychological processes. Rare-earth (RE) doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are promising for these endeavors due to their unique frequency converting capability; they emit efficient and sharp visible or...