Photon upconversion for photovoltaics and photocatalysis: a critical review: focus review

BS Richards, D Hudry, D Busko, A Turshatov… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Opportunities for enhancing solar energy harvesting using photon upconversion are
reviewed. The increasing prominence of bifacial solar cells is an enabling factor for the …

Upconversion for photovoltaics–a review of materials, devices and concepts for performance enhancement

JC Goldschmidt, S Fischer - Advanced Optical Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Upconversion of low‐energy photons into high‐energy photons increases the efficiency of
photovoltaic devices by converting photons with energies below the absorption threshold of …

Lanthanide upconversion luminescence at the nanoscale: fundamentals and optical properties

A Nadort, J Zhao, EM Goldys - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Upconversion photoluminescence is a nonlinear effect where multiple lower energy
excitation photons produce higher energy emission photons. This fundamentally interesting …

Plasmon-enhanced upconversion

DM Wu, A García-Etxarri, A Salleo… - The journal of physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Upconversion, the conversion of photons from lower to higher energies, is a process that
promises applications ranging from high-efficiency photovoltaic and photocatalytic cells to …

New advances in pre-clinical diagnostic imaging perspectives of functionalized upconversion nanoparticle-based nanomedicine

AA Ansari, AK Parchur, ND Thorat, G Chen - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
In widespread progress of nanoparticles (NPs) based biomedical applications particularly in
leukemia cancer treatment. Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) demonstrated outstanding …

Plasmonic enhancement and polarization dependence of nonlinear upconversion emissions from single gold nanorod@ SiO2@ CaF2: Yb3+, Er3+ hybrid core–shell …

J He, W Zheng, F Ligmajer, CF Chan, Z Bao… - Light: Science & …, 2017 - nature.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals (UCNCs) have recently become an attractive
nonlinear fluorescence material for use in bioimaging because of their tunable spectral …

Plasmon-enhanced upconversion photoluminescence: Mechanism and application

J Dong, W Gao, Q Han, Y Wang, J Qi, X Yan, M Sun - Reviews in Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
The enhanced local electromagnetic field (EM) excited on the noble metallic nanostructure
exhibits potential application in various areas, particularly in surface-enhanced …

Upconversion in solar cells

WG van Sark, J de Wild, JK Rath, A Meijerink… - Nanoscale research …, 2013 - Springer
The possibility to tune chemical and physical properties in nanosized materials has a strong
impact on a variety of technologies, including photovoltaics. One of the prominent research …

Surface plasmon–photon coupling in lanthanide-doped nanoparticles

X Qin, AN Carneiro Neto, RL Longo, Y Wu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles have great potential for energy conversion applications, as
their optical properties can be precisely controlled by varying the doping composition …

Combinatorial approaches for developing upconverting nanomaterials: high-throughput screening, modeling, and applications

EM Chan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal nanoparticles doped with lanthanide ions can upconvert near-infrared light to
visible frequencies, enabling the application of such materials to biological imaging and …