RARE EARTH NANOCRYSTAL FOR HIGHLY EFFICIENT NIR TO NIR WAVELENGTH CONVERSIONS

Disclosed is a novel composition of matter that provides highly efficient energy conversion from NIR to NIR wavelengths, with either up-, down-, or both up- and down-converting transitions. Disclosed is a composition having the molecular formula NaYF4:YbxTmyNdz, where 0≤x≤0.98, 0≤y≤0.02, and 0≤z≤0.0...

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Hauptverfasser: Collins, Joshua E, Bell, Howard Y
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Zusammenfassung:Disclosed is a novel composition of matter that provides highly efficient energy conversion from NIR to NIR wavelengths, with either up-, down-, or both up- and down-converting transitions. Disclosed is a composition having the molecular formula NaYF4:YbxTmyNdz, where 0≤x≤0.98, 0≤y≤0.02, and 0≤z≤0.06. Also disclosed is a core-shell structure, wherein the core is a composition having the molecular formula NaYF4:YbxTmyNdz, where 0≤x≤0.98, 0≤y≤0.02, and 0≤z≤0.06, and the shell is composition having the molecular formula NaYF4:Ndw, where 0≤w≤0.1.