Plasmonic enhancement and polarization dependence of nonlinear upconversion emissions from single gold nanorod@SiO2@CaF2: Yb3+, Er3+ hybrid core–shell–satellite nanostructures

Jijun He; Wei Zheng; Filip Ligmajer; Chi-Fai Chan; Zhiyong Bao; Ka-Leung Wong; Xueyuan Chen; Jianhua Hao; Jiyan Dai; Siu-Fung Yu; Dang Yuan Lei

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.217

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Plasmonic enhancement and polarization dependence of nonlinear upconversion emissions from single gold nanorod@SiO₂@CaF₂: Yb³⁺, Er³⁺ hybrid core–shell–satellite nanostructures

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- Plasmonic enhancement and polarization dependence of nonlinear upconversion emissions from single gold nanorod@SiO₂@CaF₂: Yb³⁺, Er³⁺ hybrid core–shell–satellite nanostructures
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 2, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
  2.Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
  3.Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno 61669, Czech Republic
  4.Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
- Author bio：
  
  DY Lei, Email: dylei@polyu.edu.hk
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.217
  CLC：
- Published：2017-06，
  
  Published Online：06 September 2016，
  
  Received：23 February 2016，
  
  Revised：31 August 2016，
  
  Accepted：04 September 2016
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He, J. J. et al. Plasmonic enhancement and polarization dependence of nonlinear upconversion emissions from single gold nanorod@SiO₂@CaF₂: Yb³⁺, Er³⁺ hybrid core–shell–satellite nanostructures. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16217 (2017).
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He, J. J. et al. Plasmonic enhancement and polarization dependence of nonlinear upconversion emissions from single gold nanorod@SiO₂@CaF₂: Yb³⁺, Er³⁺ hybrid core–shell–satellite nanostructures. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16217 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.217.

摘要

Abstract

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals (UCNCs) have recently become an attractive nonlinear fluorescence material for use in bioimaging because of their tunable spectral characteristics and exceptional photostability. Plasmonic materials are often introduced into the vicinity of UCNCs to increase their emission intensity by means of enlarging the absorption cross-section and accel

erating the radiative decay rate. Moreover

plasmonic nanostructures (e.g.

gold nanorods

GNRs) can also influence the polarization state of the UC fluorescence—an effect that is of fundamental importance for fluorescence polarization-based imaging methods yet has not been discussed previously. To study this effect

we synthesized GNR@SiO

@CaF

: Yb

hybrid core–shell–satellite nanostructures with precise control over the thickness of the SiO

shell. We evaluated the shell thickness-dependent plasmonic enhancement of the emission intensity in ensemble and studied the plasmonic modulation of the emission polarization at the single-particle level. The hybrid plasmonic UC nanostructures with an optimal shell thickness exhibit an improved bioimaging performance compared with bare UCNCs

and we observed a polarized nature of the light at both UC emission bands

which stems from the relationship between the excitation polarization and GNR orientation. We used electrodynamic simulations combined with Förster resonance energy transfer theory to fully explain the observed effect. Our results provide extensive insights into how the coherent interaction between the emission dipoles of UCNCs and the plasmonic dipoles of the GNR determines the emission polarization state in various situations and thus open the way to the accurate control of the UC emission anisotropy for a wide range of bioimaging and biosensing applications.

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Keywords

Förster resonance energy transfergold nanorodslanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystalsplasmon-enhanced nonlinear fluorescencepolarization modulation

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