Upconversion Modulation through Pulsed Laser Excitation for Anti-counterfeiting

Abstract Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanomaterials are emerging as promising candidates in optoelectronics, volumetric display, anti-counterfeiting as well as biological imaging and therapy. Typical modulations of upconversion through chemical methods, such as controlling phase, composition, morph...

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Autores principales: Yingdong Han, Hongyu Li, Yangbo Wang, Yue Pan, Ling Huang, Feng Song, Wei Huang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:0d29b1b1f617430f8a18e14fc3668c5b2021-12-02T16:07:49ZUpconversion Modulation through Pulsed Laser Excitation for Anti-counterfeiting10.1038/s41598-017-01611-92045-2322https://doaj.org/article/0d29b1b1f617430f8a18e14fc3668c5b2017-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01611-9https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanomaterials are emerging as promising candidates in optoelectronics, volumetric display, anti-counterfeiting as well as biological imaging and therapy. Typical modulations of upconversion through chemical methods, such as controlling phase, composition, morphology and size enable us to rationally manipulate emission profiles and lifetimes of lanthanide ions by using continuous-wave laser excitation. Here we demonstrate that under pulsed laser excitation the emission color of NaYF4:Er/Tm (2/0.5%)@NaYF4 core-shell nanoparticles has an obvious transformation from green to red colors. Moreover, both pulse duration and repetition frequency are responsible for manipulating the upconversion emission color. The mechanism of the phenomena may be that the pulsed laser sequence triggers the emission levels to non-steady upconversion states first, and then cuts off the unfinished population process within the pulse duration. This pump source dependent and resultant tunable fluorescence emission enables NaYF4:Er/Tm (2/0.5%)@NaYF4 nanoparticles as a promising fluorophore in the transparent anti-fake printing.Yingdong HanHongyu LiYangbo WangYue PanLing HuangFeng SongWei HuangNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
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Yingdong Han
Hongyu Li
Yangbo Wang
Yue Pan
Ling Huang
Feng Song
Wei Huang
Upconversion Modulation through Pulsed Laser Excitation for Anti-counterfeiting
description Abstract Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanomaterials are emerging as promising candidates in optoelectronics, volumetric display, anti-counterfeiting as well as biological imaging and therapy. Typical modulations of upconversion through chemical methods, such as controlling phase, composition, morphology and size enable us to rationally manipulate emission profiles and lifetimes of lanthanide ions by using continuous-wave laser excitation. Here we demonstrate that under pulsed laser excitation the emission color of NaYF4:Er/Tm (2/0.5%)@NaYF4 core-shell nanoparticles has an obvious transformation from green to red colors. Moreover, both pulse duration and repetition frequency are responsible for manipulating the upconversion emission color. The mechanism of the phenomena may be that the pulsed laser sequence triggers the emission levels to non-steady upconversion states first, and then cuts off the unfinished population process within the pulse duration. This pump source dependent and resultant tunable fluorescence emission enables NaYF4:Er/Tm (2/0.5%)@NaYF4 nanoparticles as a promising fluorophore in the transparent anti-fake printing.
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author Yingdong Han
Hongyu Li
Yangbo Wang
Yue Pan
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Feng Song
Wei Huang
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Hongyu Li
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Feng Song
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title Upconversion Modulation through Pulsed Laser Excitation for Anti-counterfeiting
title_short Upconversion Modulation through Pulsed Laser Excitation for Anti-counterfeiting
title_full Upconversion Modulation through Pulsed Laser Excitation for Anti-counterfeiting
title_fullStr Upconversion Modulation through Pulsed Laser Excitation for Anti-counterfeiting
title_full_unstemmed Upconversion Modulation through Pulsed Laser Excitation for Anti-counterfeiting
title_sort upconversion modulation through pulsed laser excitation for anti-counterfeiting
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