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Photoswitching the injected energy flux via core-sensitized energy migration upconversion for emission-varying STED
Abstract:
Stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy achieved with lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) exhibits many outstanding advantages such as low-power illumination, near-infrared (NIR) excitation, and high photostability. However, the available types of UCNP-STED probes are very limited and rely greatly on the specific depletion mechanism. Here, by combining the STED and the energy migration upconversion processes, emissions of Tb3+, Eu3+, Dy3+, and Sm3+ distributed in the shell can all be depleted by interrupting the injected energy flux from the Tm3+-doped core nanoparticles. With the merit of the proposed strategy, new types of UCNP-STED probes are demonstrated to perform emission-varying STED imaging with one single, fixed pair of low-power NIR continuous wave lasers.
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