Issue 2, 2014
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Nanoscale

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

Hailong Qiu,adf   Guanying Chen,*af   Rongwei Fan,b   Liming Yang,c   Cheng Liu,c   Shuwei Hao,a   Michael J. Sailor,d   Hans Ǻgren,e   Chunhui Yang*a  and  Paras N. Prasad*fg  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001 Harbin, People's Republic of China
E-mail: guanying@buffalo.edu, yangchh@hit.edu.cn

b National Key Laboratory of Tunable Lasers, Institute of Optical Electronics, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001 Harbin, People's Republic of China

c Harbin Medical University, 150001 Harbin, People's Republic of China

d Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of California, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, San Diego, California 92093-0358, USA

e Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

f Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
E-mail: pnprasad@buffalo.edu

g Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea

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.

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

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3NR04617F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Aug 2013
Accepted
19 Oct 2013
First published
23 Oct 2013

Nanoscale, 2014,6, 753-757

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

H. Qiu, G. Chen, R. Fan, L. Yang, C. Liu, S. Hao, M. J. Sailor, H. Ǻgren, C. Yang and P. N. Prasad, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 753 DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04617F

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