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Microscale optoelectronic infrared-to-visible upconversion devices and their use as injectable light sources.

ABSTRACT: Optical upconversion that converts infrared light into visible light is of significant interest for broad applications in biomedicine, imaging, and displays. Conventional upconversion materials rely on nonlinear light-matter interactions, exhibit incidence-dependent efficiencies, and require high-power excitation. We report an infrared-to-visible upconversion strategy based on fully integrated microscale optoelectronic devices. These thin-film, ultraminiaturized devices realize near-infrared (?810 nm) to visible [630 nm (red) or 590 nm (yellow)] upconversion that is linearly dependent on incoherent, low-power excitation, with a quantum yield of ?1.5%. Additional features of this upconversion design include broadband absorption, wide-emission spectral tunability, and fast dynamics. Encapsulated, freestanding devices are transferred onto heterogeneous substrates and show desirable biocompatibilities within biological fluids and tissues. These microscale devices are implanted in behaving animals, with in vitro and in vivo experiments demonstrating their utility for optogenetic neuromodulation. This approach provides a versatile route to achieve upconversion throughout the entire visible spectral range at lower power and higher efficiency than has previously been possible.

SUBMITTER: Ding H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042105 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Microscale optoelectronic infrared-to-visible upconversion devices and their use as injectable light sources.

Ding He H Lu Lihui L Shi Zhao Z Wang Dan D Li Lizhu L Li Xichen X Ren Yuqi Y Liu Changbo C Cheng Dali D Kim Hoyeon H Giebink Noel C NC Wang Xiaohui X Yin Lan L Zhao Lingyun L Luo Minmin M Sheng Xing X

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180611 26

Optical upconversion that converts infrared light into visible light is of significant interest for broad applications in biomedicine, imaging, and displays. Conventional upconversion materials rely on nonlinear light-matter interactions, exhibit incidence-dependent efficiencies, and require high-power excitation. We report an infrared-to-visible upconversion strategy based on fully integrated microscale optoelectronic devices. These thin-film, ultraminiaturized devices realize near-infrared (∼8 ...[more]

PMID: 29891705

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Microscale optoelectronic infrared-to-visible upconversion devices and their use as injectable light sources.

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Microscale optoelectronic infrared-to-visible upconversion devices and their use as injectable light sources.

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