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Tunable lifetime nanocrystals

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Tuning the luminescence lifetimes of upconversion nanocrystals through lanthanide doping provides new opportunities for optical multiplexing in the time domain for applications in imaging and security marking.

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Figure 1: Luminescence lifetime multiplexing through lanthanide doping in upconversion nanocrystals.

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  1. Renren Deng and Xiaogang Liu are at the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore and the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore 117602, Singapore,

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Deng, R., Liu, X. Tunable lifetime nanocrystals. Nature Photon 8, 10–12 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.353

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