Hidden triplet states at hybrid organic–inorganic interfaces

G Bao, R Deng, D Jin, X Liu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Triplet states have been widely studied in phosphorescent molecules, lanthanide complexes
and triplet–triplet annihilation systems, in which they have a critical role in energy transfer …

Recent advances in super-resolution optical imaging based on aggregation-induced emission

FY Zhu, LJ Mei, R Tian, C Li, YL Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Super-resolution imaging has rapidly emerged as an optical microscopy technique, offering
advantages of high optical resolution over the past two decades; achieving improved …

Short-Wave Infrared Upconverting Nanoparticles

X Qi, C Lee, B Ursprung, A Skripka… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optical technologies enable real-time, noninvasive analysis of complex systems but are
limited to discrete regions of the optical spectrum. While wavelengths in the short-wave …

Optical super-resolution nanothermometry via stimulated emission depletion imaging of upconverting nanoparticles

Z Ye, B Harrington, AD Pickel - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
From engineering improved device performance to unraveling the breakdown of classical
heat transfer laws, far-field optical temperature mapping with nanoscale spatial resolution …

Engineering colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals for quantum information processing

J Almutlaq, Y Liu, WJ Mir, RP Sabatini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum information processing—which relies on spin defects or single-photon emission—
has shown quantum advantage in proof-of-principle experiments including microscopic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cross Relaxation Enables Spatiotemporal Color‐Switchable Upconversion in a Single Sandwich Nanoparticle for Information Security

J Huang, L Yan, Z An, H Wei, C Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Smart control of ionic interaction dynamics offers new possibilities for tuning and editing
luminescence properties of lanthanide‐based materials. However, it remains a daunting …

Lanthanide ion-doped upconversion nanoparticles for low-energy super-resolution applications

S Lamon, H Yu, Q Zhang, M Gu - Light: Science & Applications, 2024 - nature.com
Energy-intensive technologies and high-precision research require energy-efficient
techniques and materials. Lens-based optical microscopy technology is useful for low …