Polarized Upconversion Luminescence from a Single NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ Microrod for Orientation Tracking※
Received date: 2021-12-31
Online published: 2022-02-17
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)
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.
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 . DOI: 10.6023/A21120618
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