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Building core-shell structures are widely used to enhance and regulate the luminescence properties of rare-earth-doped micro/nano materials. In this work, a variety of different NaErF4 core-shell and core-shell-shell nanocrystals are successfully constructed based on high temperature co-precipitation method by epitaxial growth technology. The upconversion red emission intensities of Er3+ ions in different core-shell structures are effectively enhanced by regulating their structures and doping ions. The experimental structures show that the constructed core-shell nanocrystals each have a hexagonal phase structure, and core-shell structure of about 40 nm. In the near infrared 980 nm laser excitation, the NaErF4 core-shell nanocrystal shows a strong single-band red emission. And the single-band red emission intensity of Er3+ ions is enhanced through constructing the NaErF4@NaYbF4:2%Er3+ core-shell structure. The experimental results show that red emission intensity of Er3+ ions is about 1.4 times higher than that of the NaErF4@NaYbF4 core-shell structure by constructing the NaErF4@NaYbF4:2%Er3+ core-shell structures under 980 nm excitation, and its red/green emission intensity ratio increases from 5.4 to 6.5. Meanwhile, when NaErF4@NaYbF4:2%Er3+ core-shell structure recoats the NaYF4 inert shell and is added with a small quantity of Tm3+ ions, their red emission intensities of Er3+ ions are 23.2 times and 40.3 times that of NaErF4@NaYbF4 core-shell structures, and their red/green emission intensity ratios reach 7.5 and 10.2, respectively. The red emission enhancement of Er3+ ions is mainly caused by bidirectional energy transfer process of high excitation energy of Yb3+ ions and energy trapping center of Tm3+ ions which effectively change the density of population of luminescent energy levels of Er3+ ions. Furthermore, the coated NaYF4 inert shell also effectively weakens the surface quenching effect of nanocrystals. The mechanisms of red enhancement in different core-shell structures are discussed based on the spectral properties, the process of interion energy transfer, and luminescence kinetics. The constructed NaErF4@NaYbF4:2%Er3+@NaYF4 core-shell structures with high-efficiency red emission in this work have great potential applications in the fields of colorful anti-counterfeiting, display and biological imaging.
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Keywords:
- nano core-shell structure /
- upconversion luminescence /
- red emission regulation /
- bidirectional energy transmission
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图 4 在980 nm不同激发功率下 (a)NaErF4:0.5%Tm3+@NaYbF4:2%Er3+@NaYF4 C-S晶体的上转换发射光谱; (b)红、绿光发射与泵浦功率依赖关系; (c)红、绿光发射强度对比(插图为其对应的红绿比)
Figure 4. (a) The UC emission spectra , (b) power density dependence of red and green emission, and (c) comparison of red and green emission intensity of NaErF4:0.5%Tm3+@NaYbF4:2%Er3+ @ NaYF4 C-S structure under different excitation powers of 980 nm (The insert is corresponding R/G ratio).
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[4] Wang Y B, Lei L, Ye R G, Jia G H, Hua Y J, Deng D G, Xu S Q 2021 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13 23951Google Scholar
[5] Bao H Q, Wang W, Li X, Liu X M, Zhang L, Yan X, Wang Y H, Wang C G, Jia X T, Sun P, Kong X G, Zhnag H, Lu G Y 2022 Adv. Optical Mater. 10 2101702Google Scholar
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Yan X W, Wang C J, Wang B Y, Sun Z Y, Zhang C X, Han Q Y, Qi J X, Dong J, Gao W 2019 Acta Phys. Sin. 68 174204Google Scholar
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[13] Lin H, Xu D K, Li A M, Teng D D, Yang S H, Zhang Y L 2016 Sci. Rep. 6 28051Google Scholar
[14] Lin H, Xu D K, Li A M, Qiu Z R, Yang S H, Zhang Y L 2017 New J. Chem. 41 1193Google Scholar
[15] Seki K, Uematsu K, Toda K, Sato M 2014 Chem. Lett. 43 1213Google Scholar
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[17] Joshi R, Perala R S, Shelar S B, Ballal A, Singh B P, Ningthoujam S 2021 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13 3481Google Scholar
[18] Cheng Q, Sui J H, Cai W 2012 Nanoscale 4 779Google Scholar
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Dong J, Zhang C X, Cheng X T, Xing Y, Han Q Y, Yan X W, Qi J X, Liu J H, Yang Y, Gao W 2021 Acta Phys. Sin. 70 154208Google Scholar
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