Nature Communications (May 2017)

Giant five-photon absorption from multidimensional core-shell halide perovskite colloidal nanocrystals

  • Weiqiang Chen,
  • Saikat Bhaumik,
  • Sjoerd A. Veldhuis,
  • Guichuan Xing,
  • Qiang Xu,
  • Michael Grätzel,
  • Subodh Mhaisalkar,
  • Nripan Mathews,
  • Tze Chien Sum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15198
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The small high-order multi-photon action cross-section of traditional biological imaging media presents a fundamental limitation for deep-tissue nonlinear optical imaging. Here the authors overcome this limitation by employing multidimensional core–shell perovskite nanocrystals.