Luminescence nanothermometry enables accurate, remote, and all-optically-based thermal
sensing. Notwithstanding its fast development, there are serious obstacles hindering …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) possess the remarkable ability to
convert multiple near-infrared (NIR) photons into higher energy ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) …

A photon avalanche (PA) effect that occurs in lanthanide-doped solids gives rise to a giant
nonlinear response in the luminescence intensity to the excitation light intensity. As a result …

Avalanche phenomena use steeply nonlinear dynamics to generate disproportionately large
responses from small perturbations, and are found in a multitude of events and materials …

Luminescence (nano) thermometry is an increasingly important field for remote temperature
sensing with high spatial resolution. Most typically, ratiometric sensing of the luminescence …

Among luminescent nanostructures actively investigated in the last couple of decades, rare
earth (RE3+) doped nanoparticles (RENPs) are some of the most reported family of …

Recently, there has been observed huge progress in the advancement of remote optical
nanothermometry, as it plays a vital role in remote, noninvasive, and remote temperature …

Luminescence thermometry alleviates the difficulties associated with conventional methods
for thermal sensing and provides outstanding opportunities for non-contact thermometry with …

Nanoparticles containing lanthanide (Ln3+) ions in their structure have become one of the
most important tools in nanomedicine, mainly due to their appealing spectroscopic …

Ratiometric luminescence thermometry employing luminescence within the biological
transparency windows provides high potential for biothermal imaging. Nd3+ is a promising …