Defect Engineering in Lanthanide Doped Luminescent Materials

See http://tny.im/pF- — Lanthanides doped luminescent materials (LLMs) have recently gained considerable attention in the areas of bioimaging, sensing, display, and lasers, benefitting from the intriguing optical characters of lanthanides. In LLMs, defect creates intermediate energy levels within the bandgap, which tailors the excited-state dynamics of lanthanides in photophysics and manipulates the spectroscopic characteristics of…