Advances in the photon avalanche luminescence of inorganic lanthanide-doped nanomaterials

M Szalkowski, A Kotulska, M Dudek… - Chemical Society …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Photon avalanche (PA)—where the absorption of a single photon initiates a 'chain
reaction'of additional absorption and energy transfer events within a material—is a highly …

Emerging Advances in Lanthanide Photon Avalanche Nanophotonics

C Liu, X Zhang, X Chen, L Liang - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photon avalanche (PA) upconversion in lanthanide nanosystems represents a
groundbreaking discovery, demonstrating an optical nonlinearity exceeding 50. This …

Indefinite and bidirectional near-infrared nanocrystal photoswitching

C Lee, EZ Xu, KWC Kwock, A Teitelboim, Y Liu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Materials whose luminescence can be switched by optical stimulation drive technologies
ranging from superresolution imaging,,–, nanophotonics, and optical data storage,, to …

Lanthanide-Doped KMgF3 Upconversion Nanoparticles for Photon Avalanche Luminescence with Giant Nonlinearities

M Zhang, P Huang, W Zheng, X Song, X Shang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide (Ln3+)-doped photon avalanche (PA) upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs)
have great prospects in many advanced technologies; however, realizing efficient PA …

A generalized approach to photon avalanche upconversion in luminescent nanocrystals

A Skripka, M Lee, X Qi, JA Pan, H Yang, C Lee… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photon avalanching nanoparticles (ANPs) exhibit extremely nonlinear upconverted
emission valuable for subdiffraction imaging, nanoscale sensing, and optical computing …

Infrared nanosensors of piconewton to micronewton forces

N Fardian-Melamed, A Skripka, B Ursprung, C Lee… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Mechanical force is an essential feature for many physical and biological processes,,,,,–,
and remote measurement of mechanical signals with high sensitivity and spatial resolution …

Tandem Photon Avalanches for Various Nanoscale Emitters with Optical Nonlinearity up to 41st‐Order through Interfacial Energy Transfer

C Wang, Z Wen, R Pu, B Pan, B Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photon avalanche has received continuous attention owing to its superior nonlinear
dynamics and promising advanced applications. However, its impact is limited due to the …

All‐Optical Data Processing with Photon‐Avalanching Nanocrystalline Photonic Synapse

A Bednarkiewicz, M Szalkowski, M Majak… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Data processing and storage in electronic devices are typically performed as a sequence of
elementary binary operations. Alternative approaches, such as neuromorphic or reservoir …

Size‐Dependent Photon Avalanching in Tm3+ Doped LiYF4 Nano, Micro, and Bulk Crystals

M Dudek, M Szalkowski, M Misiak… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photon avalanche (PA) is a highly nonlinear mode of upconversion that is characterized by
100–1000‐fold increase in luminescence intensity upon minute increments of pumping …

Multicolor Long-Term Single-Particle Tracking Using 10 nm Upconverting Nanoparticles

J F. Shida, K Ma, HW Toll, O Salinas, X Ma… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Single-particle tracking (SPT) is a powerful technique to unveil molecular behaviors crucial
to the understanding of many biological processes, but it is limited by factors such as probe …