Multi-photon quantum cutting in Gd2O2S:Tm3+ to enhance the photo-response of solar cells

De-Chao Yu; Rosa Martín-Rodríguez; Qin-Yuan Zhang; Andries Meijerink; Freddy T Rabouw

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.117

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Multi-photon quantum cutting in Gd₂O₂S:Tm³⁺ to enhance the photo-response of solar cells

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- Multi-photon quantum cutting in Gd₂O₂S:Tm³⁺ to enhance the photo-response of solar cells
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 4, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Luminescence Materials and Devices and Institute of Optical Communication Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
  2.Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Author bio：
  
  QY Zhang, Email: qyzhang@scut.edu.cn
  A Meijerink, Email: a.meijerink@uu.nl
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.117
  CLC：
- Published：2015-12，
  
  Published Online：20 June 2015，
  
  Received：05 March 2015，
  
  Revised：04 June 2015，
  
  Accepted：18 June 2015
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Yu, D. C. et al. Multi-photon quantum cutting in Gd₂O₂S:Tm³⁺ to enhance the photo-response of solar cells. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e344 (2015).
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Yu, D. C. et al. Multi-photon quantum cutting in Gd₂O₂S:Tm³⁺ to enhance the photo-response of solar cells. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e344 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.117.

摘要

Abstract

Conventional photoluminescence (PL) yields at most one emitted photon for each absorption event. Downconversion (or quantum cutting) materials can yield more than one photon by virtue of energy transfer processes between luminescent centers. In this work

we introduce Gd

S:Tm

as a multi-photon quantum cutter. It can convert near-infrared

visible

or ultraviolet photons into two

three

or four infrared photons of ~1800 nm

respectively. The cross-relaxation steps between Tm

ions that lead to quantum cutting are identified from (time-resolved) PL as a function of the Tm

concentration in the crystal. A model is presented that reproduces the way in which the Tm

concentration affects both the relative intensities of the various emission lines and the excited state dynamics and providing insight in the quantum cutting efficiency. Finally

we discuss the potential application of Gd

S:Tm

for spectral conversion to improve the efficiency of next-generation photovoltaics.

关键词

Keywords

downconversioninfrared emissionquantum cuttingsolar cellsspectral conversions

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