Broadband dye-sensitized upconversion of near-infrared light

W Zou, C Visser, JA Maduro, MS Pshenichnikov… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Photon upconversion of near-infrared photons is a promising way to overcome the Shockley–
Queisser efficiency limit of 32% of a single-junction solar cell. However, the practical …

Engineering light: advances in wavelength conversion materials for energy and environmental technologies

EL Cates, SL Chinnapongse, JH Kim… - Environmental science & …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Upconversion photoluminescence (UC) occurs in optical materials that are capable of
absorbing low energy photons and emitting photons of higher energy and shorter …

Fabrication of Ag@SiO2@Y2O3:Er Nanostructures for Bioimaging: Tuning of the Upconversion Fluorescence with Silver Nanoparticles

F Zhang, GB Braun, Y Shi, Y Zhang, X Sun… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
We demonstrated that the nanostructures comprising silver cores and dense layers of Y2O3:
Er separated by a silica shell are an excellent model system to study the interaction between …

Plasmon-Enhanced Upconversion in Single NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ Codoped Nanocrystals

S Schietinger, T Aichele, HQ Wang, T Nann… - Nano …, 2010 - ACS Publications
In this Letter we report the plasmon-enhanced upconversion in single NaYF4 nanocrystals
codoped with Yb3+/Er3+. Single nanocrystals and gold nanospheres are investigated and …

Metal-enhanced upconversion luminescence tunable through metal nanoparticle–nanophosphor separation

M Saboktakin, X Ye, SJ Oh, SH Hong, AT Fafarman… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We have demonstrated amplification of luminescence in upconversion nanophosphors
(UCNPs) of hexagonal phase NaYF4 (β-NaYF4) doped with the lanthanide dopants Yb3+ …

Large Enhancement of Upconversion Luminescence of NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ Nanocrystal by 3D Plasmonic Nano‐Antennas

W Zhang, F Ding, SY Chou - Advanced Materials, 2012 - infona.pl
Plasmon‐enhanced upconversion luminescence of NaYF4: Yb 3+/Er 3+ co‐doped
nanocrystals is investigated using a 3D plasmonic antenna architecture: a disk‐coupled dots …

Enhancement of near-infrared-to-visible upconversion luminescence using engineered plasmonic gold surfaces

HP Paudel, L Zhong, K Bayat… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
An engineered plasmonic gold surface, specifically designed to couple with 980 nm
radiation, is shown to enhance near-infrared-to-visible upconversion luminescence from a …

Au Nanorod Decoration on NaYF4:Yb/Tm Nanoparticles for Enhanced Emission and Wavelength-Dependent Biomolecular Sensing

P Kannan, F Abdul Rahim, R Chen… - … applied materials & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We introduce gold nanorods (GNRs) decoration on NaYF4: Yb/Tm upconversion
nanocrystals (UCNCs) by functionalizing the UCNCs with polyamidoamine generation 1 …

Controlled formation of gold nanoparticles with tunable plasmonic properties in tellurite glass

Y Wei, J Zhao, S Fuhrmann, R Sajzew… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Silicate glasses with metallic nanoparticles (NPs) have been of intense interest in art,
science and technology as the plasmonic properties of these NPs equip glass with light …

Energy transfer and frequency upconversion in Yb3+–Er3+-doped PbO-GeO2 glass containing silver nanoparticles

LRP Kassab, FA Bomfim, JR Martinelli, NU Wetter… - Applied Physics B, 2009 - Springer
We report the infrared-to-visible frequency upconversion in Er 3+–Yb 3+-codoped PbO-GeO
2 glass containing silver nanoparticles (NPs). The optical excitation is made with a laser at …