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Journal Article
Size-dependent lanthanide energy transfer amplifies upconversion luminescence quantum yields
2024
Overview
Optical upconversion from lanthanide-doped nanoparticles is promising for a variety of applications ranging from bioimaging, optogenetics, nanothermometry, super-resolution nanoscopy and volumetric displays to solar cells. Despite remarkable progress made in enhancing upconversion to fuel these applications, achieving luminescence of upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) that is comparable to or higher than the bulk counterparts has been challenging due to nanoscale-induced quenching effects. Here we demonstrate a size-dependent lanthanide energy transfer effect in a conceptual design of hexagonal sodium yttrium fluoride (NaYF
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) core–shell–shell NaYF
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@NaYF
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:Yb/Tm@NaYF
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UCNPs with depleted surface quenching. We show that precise control over the domain size (or the thickness of the middle shell doped with ytterbium (Yb) and thulium (Tm) from 1.2 to 13 nm) increases the lanthanide energy transfer efficiency (from 30.2 to 50.4%) and amplifies the upconversion quantum yield to a high value of 13.0 ± 1.3% in sub-50 nm UCNPs (excitation: 980 nm, 100 W cm
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), which is around fourfold higher than the micrometre-scale hexagonal NaYF
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:Yb/Tm bulk counterparts. Spectroscopic studies and theoretical microscopic modelling reveal that long-range lanthanide energy transfer (>9.5 nm) takes place and underlies the observed size-dependent phenomena. Demonstration of size-dependent lanthanide energy transfer and upconversion quantum yields at the nanoscale transforms our long-existing conceptual understanding of lanthanide energy transfer (size independence), thereby having important implications for applications of lanthanide nanophotonics and biophotonics.
Researchers demonstrate a size-dependent lanthanide energy transfer effect in upconversion nanoparticles with depleted surface quenching, resulting in upconversion quantum yields of 13.0 ± 1.3%.
