Theranostics is a concept of integrating imaging and therapy into a single platform for use in
the next generation of personalized medicine to meet the challenges in modern health …

The enthusiasm for research on lanthanide‐doped upconversion nanoparticles is driven by
both a fundamental interest in the optical properties of lanthanides embedded in different …

Over the past decade, high-quality lanthanide doped upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs)
have been successfully synthesized with the rapid development of nanotechnology. Due to …

Light upconverting nanostructures employing lanthanide ions constitute an emerging
research field recognized with wide ramifications and impact in many areas ranging from …

Upconversion photoluminescence is a nonlinear effect where multiple lower energy
excitation photons produce higher energy emission photons. This fundamentally interesting …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles enable anti-Stokes emission via nonlinear
processes, where low-energy excitation photons in the near-infrared window can be …

It is important to harness near-infrared (NIR) light in the plentiful and naturally sustainable
sunlight to maximize the consumption rate of the uncontaminated resources on the planet …

Frequency conversion has always been an important topic in optics. Nonlinear optics has
traditionally focused on frequency conversion based on nonlinear susceptibility but with the …

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 …

Highly photochemically and thermally stable upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have
shown their uses in photovoltaic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Lanthanide-based …