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A simple, compact, low-cost, highly efficient thermometer based on green fluorescence of Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaYF4
Ning Yuan1, Hong-Xue Sun1, Dan-Dan Ju2
1Department of Opto-electronics and Information Engineering, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Technology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Abstract:
We developed a highly efficient optical thermometer based on intensity ratio of upconversion green fluorescence of Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaYF4 microcrystals. The sensor consists simply of a 980nm laser diode, one narrow-band interference filter, two lenses, one Si-photocell and one multimeter, while being without use of spectrometer and additional electronics. The device not only has a simple, compact structure (hence a low cost), but also displays highly efficient sensing performance, characterized by large signal-to-noise ratio due to strong fluorescence intensity, high thermal resolution and sensitivity, which have the values 1.3K and 1.24×10-2K-1, respectively, at the physiological temperature 310K. The excellent sensing performance of the device was further confirmed by the results of the measurements repeated using a spectrometer. The thermometer is highly generalized that can be applied to other luminescent materials, and shows great potential for the physiological temperature sensing in biological tissues and cells.
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