Polarized Upconversion Luminescence from a Single NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ Microrod for Orientation Tracking※

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Acta Chimica Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 80 ›› Issue (3): 244-248.DOI: 10.6023/A21120618 Previous Articles Next Articles

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NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/Er³⁺单颗粒微米棒偏振上转换发光及其取向示踪^※

胡晓柯^a^,^b, 商晓颖^b, 黄萍^a^,^b^,^*(), 郑伟^a^,^b, 陈学元^a^,^b^,^*()

a 福建师范大学化学与材料学院福州 350007
b 中国科学院福建物质结构研究所中国科学院功能纳米结构设计与组装重点实验室福建省纳米材料重点实验室结构化学国家重点实验室福州 350002

投稿日期:2021-12-31 发布日期:2022-02-17
通讯作者: 黄萍, 陈学元
作者简介:
^※ 庆祝中国科学院青年创新促进会十年华诞.
基金资助:
中国科学院青年创新促进会专项(2020305); 国家自然科学基金(12174391); 国家自然科学基金(U1805252); 国家自然科学基金(21875250); 国家自然科学基金(12074379); 国家自然科学基金(12104456); 福建省自然科学基金对外合作项目(2020I0037)

Polarized Upconversion Luminescence from a Single NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/Er³⁺ Microrod for Orientation Tracking^※

Xiaoke Hu^a^,^b, Xiaoying Shang^b, Ping Huang^a^,^b(), Wei Zheng^a^,^b, Xueyuan Chen^a^,^b()

a College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007
b State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002

Received:2021-12-31 Published:2022-02-17
Contact: Ping Huang, Xueyuan Chen
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^※ Dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS.
Supported by:
Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2020305); National Natural Science Foundation of China(12174391); National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1805252); National Natural Science Foundation of China(21875250); National Natural Science Foundation of China(12074379); National Natural Science Foundation of China(12104456); Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(2020I0037)

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Abstract

Polarized upconversion luminescence (UCL) of lanthanide (Ln³⁺)-doped micro/nano-crystals has shown great promise in areas such as single-particle tracking and biomedicine. The polarized UCL of Ln³⁺ ions is governed by their localized electronic structures and excited-state dynamics. In this work, β-NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/Er³⁺ microrods with controllable morphologies and sizes were synthesized through a solvothermal method. Based on the customized confocal laser microscopic system, the polarized UCL of a single β-NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/Er³⁺ microrod was systematically investigated. The emission polarization was probed by placing a half-wave plate coupled with a polarizer in front of the detector. As such, the polarized UCL spectra of a single NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/Er³⁺ microrod can be recorded by rotating the half-wave plate under 980-nm excitation. It was observed that the UCL intensity of the microrod exhibited a periodic variation with the emission polarization angle tuning from 0° to 360°, indicating polarization anisotropy of the microrod. Specifically, different crystal-field (CF) transition lines originating from two identical multiplets of Er³⁺ displayed drastically distinct polarization dependence. This results in a higher degree of polarization (DOP) of the UCL intensity for a certain CF transition of Er³⁺ in comparison with that of the integrated UCL intensity of the multiplet. Polar plots of the UCL intensities for the CF transitions of Er³⁺ as a function of polarization angle could provide a qualitative vision of the DOP, with a narrower “neck” indicative of a larger DOP. Moreover, the polar plots of a certain CF transition of Er³⁺ showed a consistent orientation with the corresponding NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/ Er³⁺ microrod and rotated with the rotating of the single microrod. Therefore, by utilizing the polar plots of the highly-polarized CF transition lines of Er³⁺, the spatial orientations of the microrod could be monitored, thus revealing the great potential of NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/Er³⁺ microrods as sensitive anisotropic UCL probes for single-particle tracking.

Key words: rare earth, upconversion luminescence, polarization anisotropy, single particle, crystal-field transition

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Xiaoke Hu, Xiaoying Shang, Ping Huang, Wei Zheng, Xueyuan Chen. Polarized Upconversion Luminescence from a Single NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/Er³⁺ Microrod for Orientation Tracking^※[J]. Acta Chimica Sinica, 2022, 80(3): 244-248.

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Figure 1. (a) TEM image (inset shows the high-resolution TEM image), (b) XRD pattern, (c) elemental mappings and (d) EDS of NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microrods

Figure 2. (a) Schematic illustration of the microrod orientation and the definition of the emission polarization angle (θ), (b) UCL spectrum of NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microrod aggregates under excitation with a 980-nm linearly polarized laser (at a power of 2 W), (c) polarized UCL spectra of NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microrod aggregates obtained by varying the emission polarization angle (θ) from 0° to 360° (The inset shows the UCL image of the microrod aggregates) and (d) polar plots of the UCL intensities (normalized at their maxima) for the CF transitions of Er3+ as a function of θ

Figure 3. (a) Polarized UCL spectra of a single NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microrod obtained by varying the polarization angle (θ) from 0° to 360° upon excitation with a 980-nm linearly polarized laser (power: 2 W) (The inset shows the UCL image of a single microrod), (b) polar plots of the UCL intensities (normalized at their maxima) for the CF transitions of Er3+ of a single NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microrod from the 4F9/2 multiplet to the 4I15/2 ground state as a function of θ, (c) polarized UCL spectra of Er3+ from 4F9/2 to 4I15/2 obtained by varying the emission polarization angle (θ) from 0° to 90° and (d) polar plot of the integrated UCL intensity for the 4F9/2→4I15/2 transition of Er3+ as a function of θ

Figure 4. (a) Polarized UCL spectra for a single NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microrod at different spatial orientations upon excitation with a 980-nm linearly polarized laser (The insets show the corresponding UCL images of the microrod at different orientations. The white and red arrows denote the directions of the polarizer and the microrod c-axis, respectively), (b) polar plots of the UCL intensities of Er3+ at 653.60 nm for the four orientations of the microrod as a function of θ, (c) UCL intensities of Er3+ at 653.60 nm for the four orientations of the microrod as a function of θ and (d) polar plots of the UCL intensity ratio between the CF transitions of Er3+ at 653.60 and 661.40 nm for the four orientations of the microrod as a function of θ

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