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Efficient Photon Upconverters with Ionic Liquids

Yoichi Murakami
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This paper presents the development and characterization of photon upconverters fabricated with ionic liquids (ILs), which are novel fluids that are recently drawing attention due to their unique properties, such as negligible vapor pressures and high thermal stabilities. The upconverters in this study are based on triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) between excited polycyclic aromatic molecules, and TTA requires a fluidic media to allow for the molecules to collide with each other for energy transfer. This process, TTA-based photon upconversion (TTA-UC), was therefore mainly accomplished with organic solvents previously. It is found that the molecules used for TTA-UC, which are non-polar or weakly polar, are stably solvated in a certain class of ILs. The mechanism of the observed solvation is proposed and discussed. The upconversion quantum yields (UC-QYs) measured by continuous wave (CW) light excitation reach as high as 10 % with moderate excitation intensity (~ 6 W/cm2), which is considerably higher than those in previous TTA-UC studies performed with organic solvents (up to ~ 4 % with CW light excitations). It is found that the value of UC-QY starts to saturate as the excitation power increases for all the cases, even within the moderate CW excitation power range in this study. An analytical model that describes the UC-QY vs. excitation power relationship is derived and compared with the experimental results. The agreement between them suggests that the donor-acceptor energy transfer in this system is highly efficient. Based on these experimental and analytical findings, it is found that efficient energy transfer between the molecules is possible in ILs and therefore ILs are not actually viscous media for the purpose of TTA-UC.

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Yoichi Murakami. 2011-04-01. Efficient Photon Upconverters with Ionic Liquids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2011.09.065

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