New function of the Yb<sup>3+</sup> ion as an efficient emitter of persistent luminescence in the short-wave infrared

Yan-Jie Liang; Feng Liu; Ya-Fei Chen; Xiao-Jun Wang; Kang-Ning Sun; Zhengwei Pan

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.124

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New function of the Yb³⁺ ion as an efficient emitter of persistent luminescence in the short-wave infrared

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- New function of the Yb³⁺ ion as an efficient emitter of persistent luminescence in the short-wave infrared
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 3, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
  2.Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structure Evolution and Processing of Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China
  3.Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
  4.Department of Physics, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA
- Author bio：
  
  KN Sun, Email: sunkangning@sdu.edu.cn
  ZW Pan, Email: panz@uga.edu
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.124
  CLC：
- Published：2016-09，
  
  Published Online：03 March 2016，
  
  Received：03 November 2015，
  
  Revised：29 February 2016，
  
  Accepted：02 March 2016
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Liang, Y. J. et al. New function of the Yb³⁺ ion as an efficient emitter of persistent luminescence in the short-wave infrared. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16124 (2016).
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Liang, Y. J. et al. New function of the Yb³⁺ ion as an efficient emitter of persistent luminescence in the short-wave infrared. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16124 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.124.

摘要

Abstract

The trivalent ytterbium (Yb

) ion has been extensively used as an emitter in short-wave infrared (SWIR) lasers

a sensitizer to activate other lanthanide ions for up-conversion luminescence

and a spectral converter in Ln

-Yb

doubly doped quantum cutting phosphors. Here we report a new function of the Yb

ion—as an efficient emitting center for SWIR persistent luminescence. We have developed the first real SWIR persistent phosphor

MgGeO

: Yb

which exhibits very-long persistent luminescence at around 1000 nm for longer than 100 h. The MgGeO

: Yb

phosphor is spectrally transparent to visible/near-infrared light (~400–900 nm) and is a promising ultraviolet-to-SWIR spectral convertor. The MgGeO

: Yb

phosphor also exhibits a photostimulated persistent luminescence capabi

lity

where the SWIR persistent emission in an ultraviolet-light pre-irradiated sample can be rejuvenated by low-energy light (white or red light) stimulation. The MgGeO

: Yb

phosphor is expected to have promising applications in biomedical imaging

night-vision surveillance and photovoltaics.

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Keywords

persistent luminescencephotostimulationshort-wave infrared (SWIR)ytterbium ions (Yb3+)

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New function of the Yb3+ ion as an efficient emitter of persistent luminescence in the short-wave infrared

DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.124

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New function of the Yb³⁺ ion as an efficient emitter of persistent luminescence in the short-wave infrared