Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Experimental demonstration of photon upconversion via cooperative energy pooling

  • Daniel H. Weingarten,
  • Michael D. LaCount,
  • Jao van de Lagemaat,
  • Garry Rumbles,
  • Mark T. Lusk,
  • Sean E. Shaheen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14808
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Photon upconversion methods demonstrated thus far involve challenging requirements. Here Weingartenet al. demonstrate a mechanism called cooperative energy pooling, in which multiple photoexcited sensitizers resonantly and simultaneously transfer their energies to a higher-energy state on a single acceptor.