“…Since this spectral region is virtually inaccessible to organic dyes, investigation was focused on the complexes of d and some f metals (mainly trivalent lanthanides including Pr, Nd, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb) emitting in the range from 800 to 3000 nm. In order to produce effective NIR luminophores, a set of complexes of the mentioned metals with C 6 F 5 O [8], q [26,27], mbt [19], OON, SON [28], OON 5Me , OON 6Me [10], NpOON and NpSON [29] ligands were prepared and their PL and EL features were studied. The performance of the most efficient NIR emitting devices based on Nd, Er, Tm and Yb compounds are listed in Table 1.…”