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Nanoscale

Tuning from blue to magenta the up-converted emissions of YF3:Tm3+/Yb3+nanocrystals

Marta Quintanilla,*a   Nuria O. Núñez,b   Eugenio Cantelar,a   Manuel Ocañab  and  Fernando Cussóa  

* Corresponding authors

a Departamento de Física de Materiales (Módulo 04), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 7, Madrid, Spain
E-mail: marta.quintanilla@uam.es
Fax: +34 91 497 85 79
Tel: +34 91 497 24 50

b Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla, CSIC-US, Américo Vespucio 49, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain
E-mail: mjurado@icmse.csic.es
Fax: +34 95 446 06 65
Tel: +34 95 448 95 33

Abstract

Monodisperse YF3:Tm3+/Yb3+ nanocrystals have been synthesized to explore the visible up-converting properties under near infrared (975 nm) excitation. It has been found that the nanoparticles exhibit intense red up-converted emissions, in addition to the characteristic UV and blue Tm3+-bands. It is demonstrated that, by carefully selecting Tm3+ and Yb3+ contents, the relative intensity of the different emissions can be changed producing an overall emission colour that can be tuned from blue to magenta.

Graphical abstract: Tuning from blue to magenta the up-converted emissions of YF3:Tm3+/Yb3+ nanocrystals

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0NR00676A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Sep 2010
Accepted
05 Nov 2010
First published
13 Dec 2010

Nanoscale, 2011,3, 1046-1052

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Tuning from blue to magenta the up-converted emissions of YF3:Tm3+/Yb3+ nanocrystals

M. Quintanilla, N. O. Núñez, E. Cantelar, M. Ocaña and F. Cussó, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 1046 DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00676A

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