摘要:In recent years, full-spectrum light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have attracted considerable interest due to their continuous spectral distribution and superior color rendering capabilities. In this work, zero-dimensional DMA4InCl7∶Sb3+ (DMA=C2H8N) hybrid metal halide single crystals were synthesized via an anti-solvent approach. Under 343 nm ultraviolet excitation, the crystals exhibited broadband orange-yellow emission centered at 620 nm, achieving an exceptional quantum efficiency of 95.2% with a broad full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 148 nm. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations showed that Sb3+ doping effectively improves the band structure of host, while the spectral characterizations demonstrated that the broadband emission originates from the triplet self-trapped exciton (STE) of [SbCl6]3-. Temperature-dependent photoluminescence spectra further revealed high photoluminescence thermal stability, with the material maintaining 81.2% of its room-temperature (RT) emission intensity at 150 ℃. Leveraging these superior luminescent properties, we fabricated a full-spectrum LED device with a high color rendering index (CRI) of 94.9. This work provides a strategic reference for designing hybrid metal halide luminescent materials that combine efficient broadband emission with suppressed thermal quenching.
摘要:Since the discovery of mechanoluminescence, it has undergone decades of development and has been widely applied in various fields, including sensing, anti-counterfeiting, and structural detection. However, the application of mechanoluminescent materials in biomedical fields is still in its early stages, with relatively few reports available. This paper first introduces advanced strategies for synthesizing mechanoluminescent materials and systematically discusses several typical mechanoluminescence mechanisms, with a focus on trap-controlled mechanoluminescence. Additionally, it presents the recently developed novel mechanoluminescence models based on chemiluminescence and bioluminescence. Furthermore, this paper provides a comprehensive overview of the applications of mechanoluminescent materials in biomedical fields, including biosensing, near-infrared bioimaging, optogenetic neuromodulation, and disease treatment. Lastly, this paper summarizes the major challenges faced by mechanoluminescent materials in biomedical applications and proposes their future research directions.
摘要:Moiré superlattices in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures exhibit a wealth of physical phenomena, significantly expanding the research scope of twistoptics. By precisely tuning the interlayer twist angle, Moiré superlattices can generate unique electronic, excitonic, and optical properties, such as band flattening, strong correlation states, topological states, and chiral optical responses. These characteristics open new opportunities for novel optoelectronic devices, single-photon sources, exciton lasers, and quantum computing platforms. This review systematically summarizes recent advances in twisted photonics of Moiré superlattices, covering the fabrication methods, exciton behaviors, nonlinear optical effects, nanoscale spectroscopy, and electric field tunability. The potential applications in future optoelectronics and quantum technologies are also discussed.
摘要:With intrinsic linearly polarized luminescence properties, perovskite nanowires have attracted widespread attention. However, in the absence of template-assisted alignment during film formation, perovskite nanowires are difficult to achieve uniform orientation, thereby limiting their potential applications in linearly polarized luminescence. In this work, we address the challenge of template-free oriented film formation of perovskite nanowires by combining the regulation of their aggregation structures in suspension with the scalable blade coating process. By optimizing the suspension concentration and the shear force during blade coating, we have achieved perovskite nanowire films with a photoluminescence polarization degree of 66.7% and an electroluminescence polarization degree of 27.5%. This study presents a novel approach for the large-scale and cost-effective fabrication of high-performance linearly polarized luminescent devices.
摘要:In recent years, two-dimensional rare-earth materials have rapidly become a frontier and hot spot in scientific research due to their unique properties that combine those of two-dimensional materials and rare-earth materials. To achieve the application of two-dimensional rare-earth materials in the fields of optics, electronics, and magnetism, their synthesis is of crucial importance. The methods for synthesizing two-dimensional rare-earth materials have been summarized. Among them, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is one of the commonly used methods, and salt-assisted CVD can be used to synthesize binary (such as Gd₂O₅, CeO₂, Eu₂O₃, etc.) and ternary (such as EuOCl, LaOCl, Er₂O₂S, etc.) two-dimensional rare-earth compounds; mechanical exfoliation is often used to synthesize two-dimensional rare-earth oxyhalides and tellurides; coating methods include molecular beam epitaxy, thermal deposition, and others, which can be used to synthesize GdSi₂, EuGe2, SmSe, etc. Finally, the prospect of large-scale synthesis of two-dimensional rare-earth materials have been proposed.
摘要:Near-infrared CuInS2 (CIS) based quantum dots (QDs) exhibit superior biocompatibility and environmental friendliness compared to traditional near-infrared cadmium-based (CdSe) and lead-based (PbS) QDs due to their absence of heavy metal elements. However, their low photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and poor stability limit their practical applications. While ZnS shell coating improves the PLQY and stability of CIS QDs, CIS/ZnS QDs exhibit substantial blue shifts in photoluminescence (PL) peak positions compared to those of intrinsic CIS QDs. Additionally, the interfacial alloying in CIS/ZnS core/shell structures causes significant blue shifts in electroluminescence (EL) peak positions of quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) relative to their PL peaks. This study develops a synthetic approach combining rigid shell structures with aluminum-doped shells, which reduces the photoluminescence (PL) blue shifts in CIS/ZnS quantum dots compared to intrinsic CIS QDs. By incorporating 50% Al/Zn molar ratio of aluminum isopropoxide (Al(IPA)3), we successfully constructed CIS/Al-ZnS (CIS/AZS) core/shell QDs, which mitigate the EL blue shifts in QLEDs compared to the PL and balance carrier injection. The experimental results show that the CIS/AZS QLEDs achieve a 7 nm reduction EL peak blue shifts (emission at 963 nm), a peak external quantum efficiency of 2.61%, and an 80% enhanced device lifetime. This research provides a solution to address EL blue shifts relative to PL in CIS/ZnS QDs, preserving more valuable near-infrared emission of near-infrared QLEDs.
摘要:Near-infrared (NIR) phosphors are critical materials for high-efficiency phosphor-converted LED (pc-LED) light sources. However, the development of NIR phosphors with long emission wavelengths, broad emission bandwidths, and tunable spectra remains a significant challenge. In this study, a series of Cr3+-doped aluminum/silicon mullite (Al4+2zSi2-2zO10-z∶Cr3+) phosphors with solid-solution properties were synthesized via a high-temperature solid-state reaction. The luminescence characteristics of Cr3+ in both octahedral [CrO6] and tetrahedral [CrO4] sites were systematically investigated. Spectral shift and broadening were achieved through concentration regulation. By adjusting the aluminum/silicon ratio, effective spectral tuning was realized. Further modulation of Cr3+ doping concentration revealed concentration quenching in octahedral-site emission due to exchange interactions between activators, resulting in a notable spectral red shift (785→850 nm) with increasing dopant concentration. Under 405 nm excitation, the optimized 1.6/1-mullite∶Cr3+ sample exhibited a broad emission spanning 695-950 nm, featuring a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 190 nm. This emission originates from the 4T2g→4A2g and 2Eg→4A2g transitions of Cr3+ in octahedral sites under an intermediate crystal field (Dq/B=2.30), as well as the 4T2g→4T1g transition in tetrahedral sites with a weaker crystal field (Dq/B=1.02). Additionally, the phosphor retained 63% of its room-temperature emission intensity at 423 K, with internal and external quantum yields reaching 53% and 24%, respectively. These results demonstrate the potential of this material as a high-performance broadband NIR phosphor for practical applications.
摘要:The tunable luminescent phosphors in terms of light color have significant application value in fields such as healthy lighting, fluorescent anti-counterfeiting, and optical temperature measurement. Based on the blue-green tunable Ca3Ga4O9∶Tb3+ phosphor, this paper designs the incorporation of Eu3+ which can emit red light, and synthesizes a series of phosphors Ca2.98-xGa4O9∶0.02Tb3+, xEu3+, achieving continuous regulation of its light color from green to red. With the increase of Eu3+ doping concentration from x=0.01 to x=0.09, the energy transfer efficiency from Tb3+ to Eu3+ increases from 20% to 90.8%, and the color temperature decreases from 6 083 K to 1 750 K. The calculation results and energy level analysis results show that the energy transfer from Tb3+ to Eu3+ is due to dipole-dipole interaction and cross relaxation process. When the temperature of Ca2.96Ga4O9∶0.02Tb3+, 0.02Eu3+ phosphor reaches 398 K, the luminescence intensities of Tb3+ and Eu3+ remain at 46.6% and 49.8% of those at 298 K, respectively, and the thermal stabilities of the two activator ions are close. The research results of this work have certain guiding and reference significance for the development of new ultraviolet-excited color-tunable phosphors.
关键词:phosphor;Tb3+/Eu3+ doped;Color-tunable;energy transfer
摘要:In recent years, near-infrared (NIR) phosphor-converted light-emitting diodes (pc-LED) have shown extremely high application value in various fields such as night vision, non-destructive detection, and biological imaging. Development of NIR-emitting phosphors with a large full width at half maximum (FWHM), high efficiency and stabilities has become a research focus. In this work, borate Sr2Sc2B4O11∶Cr3+ (SSBO∶Cr3+) phosphor samples were synthesized using high-temperature solid-state reaction. By means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), the samples were systematically analyzed for phase identification, particle size and morphology, element distribution, etc. of the samples using. The samples exhibit efficient blue light absorption, yield a broadband NIR emission over 650-1 050 nm, with a peak at 785 nm, and a FWHM ~104 nm. Moreover, SSBO∶0.03Cr3+ phosphor has strong thermal stability and at 373 K maintains 67% of the emission intensity at room temperature. Finally, the optimized SSBO∶0.03Cr3+ phosphors were combined with a blue ~480 nm LED chip for a home-made NIR pc-LED, which was employed for applications in non-destructive detection and biological imaging.
关键词:luminescent materials;NIR-emitting phosphor;Cr3+;borates, phosphor-converted LED
摘要:Non-contact optical thermometers based on fluorescence intensity ratio (FIR) technology with high accuracy, stability and sensitivity have become a research hotspot in recent years. In this paper, the oxide material LaSc-O3 with low phonon energy and stable physical and chemical properties is selected as the matrix for Yb3+ and Er3+ doping through a high-temperature solid-phase method. The data show that accurate optical temperature measurement performance can be achieved from the thermal coupling energy level of Er3+: 2H11/2/ 4S3/2. Its best values of absolute sensitivity, relative sensitivity and resolution of this optical thermometer can reach 0.84%·K-1, 1.17%·K-1 and 0.12 K respectively, which is better than the corresponding values of most thermometers with the same type. Moreover, the sample exhibits excellent repeatability for optical sensing in the temperature range of 298-573 K. In addition, the energy transfer mechanisms in LaScO3∶Yb3+/Er3+ is discussed in detail. All the results reveal that LaScO3∶Er3+/Yb3+ is a high-sensitive optical thermometer.
关键词:rare earth ions;upconversion luminescence;optical thermometry;fluorescence intensity ratio
摘要:Lasers have important scientific research and application values due to their physical properties in multiple dimensions such as time domain, frequency domain, space, and phase. In particular, Tm3+ and Ho3+ doped 2 μm solid-state lasers possess new characteristics such as wide bandwidth, high gain, flexible mode selection, and atmospheric molecular absorption, and have important application prospects in fields such as electro-optical countermeasures, medical diagnosis, new-band communication, and attosecond light sources. This paper focuses on the research status of 2 μm band ultrafast solid-state lasers, reviews and analyzes the research history, theoretical basis, technological progress, and application status of multi-dimensional regulation of solid-state ultrafast lasers in this band, and further looks forward to the development prospects of mid-infrared laser multi-dimensional regulation driven by artificial intelligence. This paper will provide a reference for emerging research such as wavelength expansion and spatial dimension expansion of new mid-infrared ultrafast laser systems.
关键词:multidimensional;ultrafast laser;solid state laser;2 μm;transverse mode regulation
摘要:The expanding application scenarios of Mini/Micro-light emitting diode display technology require operation across wide temperature ranges and current density conditions. However, variations in ambient temperature and driving current inevitably alter LED emission characteristics, leading to chromaticity coordinate shifts in Red-Green-Blue primaries and distortion of the color gamut, significantly degrading display color performance. In this work, the electro-thermal coupling effects on chromaticity coordinate evolution and the resultant Digital Cinema Initiatives-Protocol 3 color gamut coverage ratio are systematically studied by analyzing the emission optical properties of red, green, and blue Mini/Micro-LEDs under different temperatures and current densities. Experimental results demonstrate that temperature elevation induces synchronous chromaticity coordinate shifts across all three primary colors, with only a minor reduction in color gamut coverage (less than 2%). In contrast, increased current density causes significant color gamut degradation, reaching a maximum reduction of 15%. These findings highlight that current density variation exerts a more severe impact on color performance than ambient temperature. Consequently, in developing Mini/Micro-LED displays, alongside thermal management strategies to mitigate temperature effects, it is critical to optimize current regulation schemes and implement dynamic color gamut compensation algorithms to counteract current-induced chromaticity deviations, thereby enhancing overall display quality.
摘要:To explore the optical properties and practical applications of biphenyl-based Schiff base compounds, two Schiff base compounds, 3,3″-(4,4‴-bis(diphenylamino)-[1,1':4',1″:4″,1‴-quaterphenyl]-2″,3'-diyl)bis(azanylylidene)bis(methanylylidene)bis([1,1'-biphenyl]-4-ol) (LFP-1) and 3,3″-([1,1':4',1″:4″,1‴-quaterphenyl]-2″,3'-diyl)bis(azanylylidene)bis(methanylylidene)bis([1,1'-biphenyl]-4-ol) (LFP-2), were designed and synthesized. These compounds were constructed using 4,4'-dibromobiphenyl-2,2'-diamine as the molecular skeleton, which the π-conjugated systems were extended at the 4,4'-positions and lateral groups were introduced at the 2,2'-positions. Optical performance testing revealed that both compounds exhibited excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties in dimethyl sulfoxide/water mixtures. Furthermore, these compounds had the ability to visualize latent fingerprints on three types of substrates: blades, tinfoil, and stainless steel. The first-, second-, and third-level fingerprint details were clearly identifiable, highlighting their potential for practical applications in forensic science. These findings lay a solid foundation for the design of advanced materials for latent fingerprint visualization.
摘要:WO3 is an excellent dual-band electrochromic material that can selectively modulate the transmittance of visible light and near-infrared light under the driving voltage. However, due to the influence of ion embedding depth and polariton transition mechanism, only three optical modulation modes—‘bright, cold, and dark’— are typically achievable. In this work, amorphous WO3 films were prepared and, by controlling the annealing temperature and driving potential, four optical modes—“bright,” “dark,” “cool,” and “warm”— were successfully realized. The maximum optical contrast reached 77.4% and 82.2% in the visible and near-infrared bands, respectively, with an average response time of 11.7 s. XPS and in-situ spectroscopy analysis showed that the formation of W3+ and metallic W local states is the key mechanism for the “warm” mode. However, deep ion trapping and excessive potential beyond the material’s stable range lead to poor reversibility of this mode. This study overcomes the multi-mode regulation limitations of traditional dual-band devices, and the revealed polariton-ion synergistic mechanism provides theoretical guidance for developing highly reversible four-mode devices. It also holds significant potential for applications such as building energy-saving.
摘要:Shape memory materials, as a type of intelligent materials that can restore to their initial state under external stimuli, have shown great potential in emerging fields such as flexible electronics, smart packaging, and biomedicine. However, the shape recovery efficiency of traditional polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) materials in water is greatly limited. This paper reports a novel photo-responsive shape memory material based on a PVA/carbon dots composite, which exhibits superior shape recovery performance in water compared to pure PVA by combining the carbon dots with PVA. The results obtained here have shown that the hydrogen bonds formed between the carbon dots and PVA are an important factor in enhancing the shape memory effect. The introduction of silicon elements into the carbon dots significantly improves the shape recovery speed in the composite, which is about three times higher than that of pure PVA. This is due to the silicon-doping of the carbon dots significantly enhance the photothermal conversion efficiency of the composite material to result in converting more solar energy into heat under sunlight conditions, thereby, accelerating the movement of molecular chains and achieving rapid shape recovery. Considering that as-prepared composite has the excellent controllable deformation performance and water-responsive characteristics, This study provides a new idea for the development of efficient light-thermal-water multi-responsive intelligent materials.
摘要:In this paper, the ligand ABX was prepared by condensation reaction of coumarin aldehyde and pyrene hydrazone. The probe has completely different UV and fluorescence responses towards Cd2+ and Cu2+, respectively. Competitive experiments showed that the presence of Cu2+ interferes with the Cd2+ recognition performance by probe ABX, and the substitution reaction between Cu2+ and ABX-Cd2+ produceed a more stable ABX-Cu2+ complex. Therefore, the recognition performance of ABX-Cd2+ complex for Cu2+ was investigated. The results showed that the probe ABX-Cd2+ could identify Cu2+ with high selectivity and sensitivity, and the fluorescence response efficiency was significantly improved from 68.71% to 96.25% compared with that of Cu2+ directly identified by ABX. The “test paper” of the loaded probe ABX-Cd2+ was orange-red under ultraviolet light, and then the fluorescence was gradually quenched after being immersed in Cu2+, so it was successfully applied to the semi-quantitative detection of Cu2+ in tap water and industrial wastewater. In addition, the letters written with ABX solution on the silica gel were yellowish green under ultraviolet light and then became orange-red after applying Cd2+, and the fluorescence was completely quenched after continuing to apply Cu2+, which was suitable for application in the field of encryption and anti-counterfeiting ink. Most importantly, The probe ABX-Cd2+ has also been successfully applied to the bioimaging studies of intracellular Cu2+.