Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Phonon-assisted up-conversion photoluminescence of quantum dots

  • Zikang Ye,
  • Xing Lin,
  • Na Wang,
  • Jianhai Zhou,
  • Meiyi Zhu,
  • Haiyan Qin,
  • Xiaogang Peng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24560-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Up-conversion photoluminescence in colloidal quantum dots is generally believed to be mediated by thermal activation from defect states. Here, the authors reveal that highly-efficient up-conversion photoluminescence instead is related to electron-phonon coupling.