Persistent luminescent phosphors can store light energy in advance and release it with a
long-lasting afterglow emission. With their ability to eliminate in situ excitation and store …

The attractive features of lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL), such as high
photostability, nonphotobleaching or photoblinking, and large anti-Stokes shift, have shown …

Persistent luminescence (PL) is a distinctive optical phenomenon with long‐lasting afterglow
emissions after the cessation of excitation, thus emerging huge prospects in the applications …

The advent of near-infrared (NIR) afterglow in Cr3+-doped materials has stimulated
considerable interest in technological applications owing to the sustainable emission of light …

Great progress has been made in inorganic persistent phosphors, especially in the recent
two decades, motivated by the discoveries of the SrAl 2 O 4: Eu 2+-Dy 3+ in the green and …

Owing to the unique mechanism of photoelectron storage and release, long persistent
phosphorescence, also called long persistent luminescence or long lasting afterglow …

The trivalent lanthanides have been broadly utilized as emitting centers in persistent
luminescence (PersL) materials due to their wide emitting spectral range, which thus attract …

Optical characteristics of luminescent materials, such as emission profile and lifetime, play
an important role in their applications in optical data storage, document security, diagnostics …

The development of probes for biomolecular imaging and diagnostics is a very active
research area. Among the different imaging modalities, optics emerged since it is a …

Persistent luminescence phosphors are a novel group of promising luminescent materials
with afterglow properties after the stoppage of excitation. In the past decade, persistent …