The attractive features of lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL), such as high
photostability, nonphotobleaching or photoblinking, and large anti-Stokes shift, have shown …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are capable of converting near-
infra-red excitation into visible and ultraviolet emission. Their unique optical properties have …

Luminescence-based techniques continue to attract considerable attention due not only to
their current range of applications but also to their wide potential in the fields of optical …

Lanthanides refer to the 15 elements located at the sixth period and IIIB group in the periodic
table, ranging from lanthanum to lutetium, with the electronic configuration of [Xe] 4f n–1 5d …

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 …

Lanthanide pairs, which can upconvert low energy photons into higher energy photons, are
promising for efficient upconversion emission. A typical system with Yb3+ as a sensitizer can …

The design and characterization of metal–organic complexes for optoelectronic applications
is an active area of research. The metal–organic complex offers unique optical and …

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

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

A new class of lanthanide‐doped upconversion nanoparticles are presented that are without
Yb3+ or Nd3+ sensitizers in the host lattice. In erbium‐enriched core–shell NaErF4: Tm (0.5 …