Impurity doping is a promising method to impart new properties to various materials. Due to
their unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, rare-earth ions have been …

This article gives an overview of the various kinds of nanoparticles (NPs) that are widely
used for purposes of fluorescent imaging, mainly of cells and tissues. Following an …

Abstract Lanthanides (Ln 3+) are a particular class of optical materials and are regularly
utilized as a structure block for architectures of optoelectronic frameworks because of their …

Luminescent materials, also called phosphors, are defined as solids that can absorb and
convert certain types of energy into radiation of light.(1) Among all kinds of phosphors, rare …

Abstract Lanthanides (Ln 3+) are a unique class of optical materials and are extensively
used as building blocks for optoelectronic device architectures due to their outstanding …

Sodium gadolinium fluoride (NaGdF4) is an ideal host material for the incorporation of
luminescent lanthanide ions because of its high photochemical stability, low vibrational …

Upconversion refers to non-linear optical processes that convert two or more low-energy
pump photons to a higher-energy output photon. After being recognized in the mid-1960s …

Lanthanide ions exhibit unique luminescent properties, including the ability to convert near
infrared long-wavelength excitation radiation into shorter visible wavelengths through a …

Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials have shown great potential for control of the optical
process in emerging materials. There are three ways for them to impact on the optical …

Conspectus Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles exhibit unique luminescent properties,
including large Stokes shift, sharp emission bandwidth, high resistance to optical blinking …