Lanthanide Sensitizers for Large Anti-Stokes Shift Near-Infrared-to-Visible Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion

The upconversion of near-infrared (NIR) to visible (vis) photons is of interest for display technologies and energy conversion. Although triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) offers a mechanism for upconversion that works efficiently at low incident irradiance flux densities, current strategies for NIR-vis upconversion based on TTA have fundamental limitations. Herein, we report a strategy for NIR-vis TTA based on lanthanide-containing complexes to sensitize the upconversion. We demonstrate a β-diketonate complex of Yb3+ paired with rubrene that emits yellow (λem = 559 nm) under NIR excitation (λexc = 980 nm). This corresponds to an exceptional anti-Stokes shift of just less than 1 eV. Thus, lanthanide complexes could unlock high-performance NIR-vis upconversion, with lanthanide sensitizers overcoming the energy loss, reabsorption, and short triplet lifetime that fundamentally limit porphyrin, nanocrystals, and direct S0-T1 sensitizers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

The journal of physical chemistry letters - 11(2020), 7 vom: 02. Apr., Seite 2477-2481

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kiseleva, Natalia [VerfasserIn]
Nazari, Pariya [VerfasserIn]
Dee, Carolin [VerfasserIn]
Busko, Dmitry [VerfasserIn]
Richards, Bryce S [VerfasserIn]
Seitz, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Howard, Ian A [VerfasserIn]
Turshatov, Andrey [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

517-51-1
Coordination Complexes
Journal Article
MNQ4O4WSI1
Naphthacenes
Photosensitizing Agents
Rubrene
Ytterbium

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Date Completed 09.11.2020

Date Revised 09.11.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00221

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307364178