Experimental demonstration of photon upconversion via cooperative energy pooling
Abstract
Photon upconversion is a fundamental interaction of light and matter that has applications in fields ranging from bioimaging to microfabrication. However, all photon upconversion methods demonstrated thus far involve challenging aspects, including requirements of high excitation intensities, degradation in ambient air, requirements of exotic materials or phases, or involvement of inherent energy loss processes. Here we experimentally demonstrate a mechanism of photon upconversion in a thin film, binary mixture of organic chromophores that provides a pathway to overcoming the aforementioned disadvantages. This singlet-based process, called Cooperative Energy Pooling (CEP), utilizes a sensitizer-acceptor design in which multiple photoexcited sensitizers resonantly and simultaneously transfer their energies to a higher-energy state on a single acceptor. Data from this proof-of-concept implementation is fit by a proposed model of the CEP process. As a result, design guidelines are presented to facilitate further research and development of more optimized CEP systems.
- Authors:
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[3];
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1348876
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-67676
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; photon upconversion; chromophores; Cooperative Energy Pooling; CEP; chemical physics; energy transfer; nonlinear optics
Citation Formats
Weingarten, Daniel H., LaCount, Michael D., van de Lagemaat, Jao, Rumbles, Garry, Lusk, Mark T., and Shaheen, Sean E. Experimental demonstration of photon upconversion via cooperative energy pooling. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms14808.
Weingarten, Daniel H., LaCount, Michael D., van de Lagemaat, Jao, Rumbles, Garry, Lusk, Mark T., & Shaheen, Sean E. Experimental demonstration of photon upconversion via cooperative energy pooling. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14808
Weingarten, Daniel H., LaCount, Michael D., van de Lagemaat, Jao, Rumbles, Garry, Lusk, Mark T., and Shaheen, Sean E. Wed .
"Experimental demonstration of photon upconversion via cooperative energy pooling". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14808. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1348876.
@article{osti_1348876,
title = {Experimental demonstration of photon upconversion via cooperative energy pooling},
author = {Weingarten, Daniel H. and LaCount, Michael D. and van de Lagemaat, Jao and Rumbles, Garry and Lusk, Mark T. and Shaheen, Sean E.},
abstractNote = {Photon upconversion is a fundamental interaction of light and matter that has applications in fields ranging from bioimaging to microfabrication. However, all photon upconversion methods demonstrated thus far involve challenging aspects, including requirements of high excitation intensities, degradation in ambient air, requirements of exotic materials or phases, or involvement of inherent energy loss processes. Here we experimentally demonstrate a mechanism of photon upconversion in a thin film, binary mixture of organic chromophores that provides a pathway to overcoming the aforementioned disadvantages. This singlet-based process, called Cooperative Energy Pooling (CEP), utilizes a sensitizer-acceptor design in which multiple photoexcited sensitizers resonantly and simultaneously transfer their energies to a higher-energy state on a single acceptor. Data from this proof-of-concept implementation is fit by a proposed model of the CEP process. As a result, design guidelines are presented to facilitate further research and development of more optimized CEP systems.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms14808},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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