Upconversion (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Upconversion

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Photographs of upconversion in a cuvette containing (a) an optimized cadmium selenide /9-ACA/DPA and (b) a cadmium selenide /ODPA/DPA mixture. (9-ACA: 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid; ODPA: octadecylphosphonic acid; and DPA: 9,10-diphenylanthracene.) They were excited with a focused continuous wave 532-nm laser. The violet DPA output in (a) swamps the green beam that is clearly seen in (b), where no upconversion takes place. This indicates the enhancement of the upconverted fluorescence by the 9-ACA ligand. The photographs were taken with an iPhone 5 and were not modified in any way.

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Zhiyuan Huang, UC Riverside.

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