Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/14/145705
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- Polish MNiSW [N N507 584938]
- Foundation for Polish Science
- MNiSW [N N507 599038]
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Most of the synthesis routes of lanthanide-doped phosphors involve thermal processing which results in nanocrystallite growth, stabilization of the crystal structure and augmentation of luminescence intensity. It is of great interest to be able to transform the sample in a spatially localized manner, which may lead to many applications like 2D and 3D data storage, anti-counterfeiting protection, novel design bio-sensors and, potentially, to fabrication of metamaterials, 3D photonic crystals or plasmonic devices. Here we demonstrate irreversible spatially confined infrared-laser-induced annealing (LIA) achieved in a thin layer of dried colloidal solution of ultra-small similar to 8 nm NaYF4 nanocrystals (NCs) co-doped with 2% Er3+ and 20% Yb3+ ions under a localized tightly focused beam from a continuous wave 976 nm medium power laser diode excitation. The LIA results from self-heating due to non-radiative relaxation accompanying the NIR laser energy upconversion in lanthanide ions. We notice that localized LIA appears at optical power densities as low as 15.5 kW cm(-2) (similar to 354 +/- 29 mW) threshold in spots of 54 +/- 3 mu m diameter obtained with a 10x microscope objective. In the course of detailed studies, a complete recrystallization to different phases and giant 2-3 order enhancement in luminescence yield is found. Our results are highly encouraging and let us conclude that the upconverting ultra-small lanthanide-doped nanophosphors are particularly promising for direct laser writing applications.
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