Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm<sup>3+</sup>/Yb<sup>3+</sup> couple

Dechao Yu; Ting Yu; Arnoldus J. van Bunningen; Qinyuan Zhang; Andries Meijerink; Freddy T. Rabouw

doi:10.1038/s41377-020-00346-z

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Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm³⁺/Yb³⁺ couple

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- Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm³⁺/Yb³⁺ couple
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 9, Issue 4, Pages: 1069-1077(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
  2.State Key Laboratory of Luminescence Materials and Devices, Institute of Optical Communication Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
- Author bio：
  
  Qinyuan Zhang (qyzhang@scut.edu.cn)
  Freddy T. Rabouw (f.t.rabouw@uu.nl)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-020-00346-z
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- Published：2020，
  
  Published Online：19 June 2020，
  
  Received：29 January 2020，
  
  Revised：28 May 2020，
  
  Accepted：08 June 2020
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Yu, D. C. et al. Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm³⁺/Yb³⁺ couple. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 1069-1077 (2020).
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Yu, D. C. et al. Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm³⁺/Yb³⁺ couple. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 1069-1077 (2020). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-020-00346-z.

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Abstract

Lanthanide-based photon-cutting phosphors absorb high-energy photons and 'cut' them into multiple smaller excitation quanta. These quanta are subsequently emitted

resulting in photon-conversion efficiencies exceeding unity. The photon-cutting process relies on energy transfer between optically active lanthanide ions doped in the phosphor. However

it is not always easy to determine

let alone predict

which energy-transfer mechanisms are operative in a particular phosphor. This makes the identification and design of new promising photon-cutting phosphors difficult. Here we unravel the possibility of using the Tm

/Yb

lanthanide couple for photon cu

tting. We compare the performance of this couple in four different host materials. Cooperative energy transfer from Tm

to Yb

would enable blue-to-near-infrared conversion with 200% efficiency. However

we identify phonon-assisted cross-relaxation as the dominant Tm

-to-Yb

energy-transfer mechanism in YBO

YAG

and Y

. In NaYF

in contrast

the low maximum phonon energy renders phonon-assisted cross-relaxation impossible

making the desired cooperative mechanism the dominant energy-transfer pathway. Our work demonstrates that previous claims of high photon-cutting efficiencies obtained with the Tm

/Yb

couple must be interpreted with care. Nevertheless

the Tm

/Yb

couple is potentially promising

but the host material—more specifically

its maximum phonon energy—has a critical effect on the energy-transfer mechanisms and thereby on the photon-cutting performance.

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Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm3+/Yb3+ couple

DOI：10.1038/s41377-020-00346-z

摘要

Abstract

关键词

Keywords

references

Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm³⁺/Yb³⁺ couple