Nanostructured organosilicon luminophores and their application in highly efficient plastic scintillators

Nanostructured organosilicon luminophores and their application in highly efficient plastic scintillators

Organic luminophores are widely used in various optoelectronic devices, which serve for photonics, nuclear and particle physics, quantum electronics, medical diagnostics and many other fields of science and technology. Improving their spectral-luminescent characteristics for particular technical req...

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Published in:Scientific reports Vol. 4; no. 1; p. 6549
Main Authors: Ponomarenko, Sergei A., Surin, Nikolay M., Borshchev, Oleg V., Luponosov, Yuriy N., Akimov, Dmitry Y., Alexandrov, Ivan S., Burenkov, Alexander A., Kovalenko, Alexey G., Stekhanov, Viktor N., Kleymyuk, Elena A., Gritsenko, Oleg T., Cherkaev, Georgiy V., Kechek'yan, Alexander S., Serenko, Olga A., Muzafarov, Aziz M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 08-10-2014
Nature Publishing Group
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Decay
Energy transfer
Humanities and Social Sciences
Lasers
Luminescence
multidisciplinary
Photons
Plastics
Quantum dots
Science
Silicon
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Summary:Organic luminophores are widely used in various optoelectronic devices, which serve for photonics, nuclear and particle physics, quantum electronics, medical diagnostics and many other fields of science and technology. Improving their spectral-luminescent characteristics for particular technical requirements of the devices is a challenging task. Here we show a new concept to universal solution of this problem by creation of nanostructured organosilicon luminophores (NOLs), which are a particular type of dendritic molecular antennas. They combine the best properties of organic luminophores and inorganic quantum dots: high absorption cross-section, excellent photoluminescence quantum yield, fast luminescence decay time and good processability. A NOL consists of two types of covalently bonded via silicon atoms organic luminophores with efficient Förster energy transfer between them. Using NOLs in plastic scintillators, widely utilized for radiation detection and in elementary particles discoveries, led to a breakthrough in their efficiency, which combines both high light output and fast decay time. Moreover, for the first time plastic scintillators, which emit light in the desired wavelength region ranging from 370 to 700 nm, have been created. We anticipate further applications of NOLs as working elements of pulsed dye lasers in photonics, optoelectronics and as fluorescent labels in biology and medical diagnostics.
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ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/srep06549