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Lanthanide-based photon-cutting phosphors absorb high-energy photons and'cut' them into multiple smaller excitation quanta. These quanta are subsequently emitte
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Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science,Utrecht University,Princetonplein 1,3584 CC Utrecht,The Ne
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Lanthanide-based photon-cutting phosphors absorb high-energy photons and'cut' them into multiple smaller excitation quanta. These quanta are subsequently emitted, resulting in photon-conversion efficiencies exceeding unity. The photon-cutting process relies on energy transfer between optically active lanthanide ions doped in the phosphor. However, it is not always easy to determine, let alone predict, which energy-transfer mechanisms are operative in a particular phosphor. This makes the identification and design of new promising photon-cutting phosphors difficult. Here we unravel the possibility of using the Tm3+/Yb3+lanthanide couple for photon cutting. We compare the performance of this couple in four different host materials. Cooperative energy transfer from Tm3+to Yb3+would enable blue-to-near-infrared conversion with 200％efficiency. However, we identify phonon-assisted cross-relaxation as the dominant Tm3+-to-Yb3+energy-transfer mechanism in YBO3, YAG, and Y2O3. In NaYF4, in contrast, the low maximum phonon energy renders phonon-assisted cross-relaxation impossible, making the desired cooperative mechanism the dominant energy-transfer pathway. Our work demonstrates that previous claims of high photon-cutting efficiencies obtained with the Tm3+/Yb3+couple must be interpreted with care. Nevertheless, the Tm3+/Yb3+couple is potentially promising, but the host material—more specifically, its maximum phonon energy—has a critical effect on the energy-transfer mechanisms and thereby on the photon-cutting performance.
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