We use two water based synthetic approaches to LaF 3 :Nd 3 + nanoparticles (NPs), hydrothermal microwave treatment (HTMW) and co-precipitation (CO) technique, with different temperature of the reaction mixture to study the correlation between the degree of crystallinity of LaF 3 :Nd 3 + NPs and their fluorescence properties. We showed that the fluorescence spectra and quenching kinetics can be a powerful tool to reveal the crystal lattice defects, namely agglomerations of the dopant ions (Nd 3 + ) and the OH À positioned in the volume of the doped NPs. We found that reduced number of such crystal lattice defects as Nd 3 + pairs and clusters and the OH groups in the volume of the HTMW NPs leads to much higher fluorescence brightness than for CO NPs. The higher temperature of reaction mixture during HTMW synthesis results in better crystallinity and much higher fluorescence brightness of the produced NPs. But we believe that these results could be applied more generally to the development of synthetic strategies for bright fluorescent NPs. In sum, it's not the condition of NPs surface, but the degree of their crystallinity should be a major concern while choosing the synthetic path, as it generally predetermines their fluorescent properties.
Abstract. The fluorescence kinetics and spectral intensity ratio (FIR) methods for contactless optical temperature measurement in the NIR spectral range with Nd 3+ doped YAG micro-and YPO 4 nanocrystals are developed, tested and the problems are revealed. The requirements for optical temperature RE doped crystalline nanoparticles sensors working in NIR spectral range are formulated.
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