AUTHOR=Brites Carlos D. S. , Martínez Eduardo D. , Urbano Ricardo R. , Rettori Carlos , Carlos Luís D. TITLE=Self-Calibrated Double Luminescent Thermometers Through Upconverting Nanoparticles JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry VOLUME=7 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2019.00267 DOI=10.3389/fchem.2019.00267 ISSN=2296-2646 ABSTRACT=
Luminescent nanothermometry uses the light emission from nanostructures for temperature measuring. Non-contact temperature readout opens new possibilities of tracking thermal flows at the sub-micrometer spatial scale, that are altering our understanding of heat-transfer phenomena occurring at living cells, micro electromagnetic machines or integrated electronic circuits, bringing also challenges of calibrating the luminescent nanoparticles for covering diverse temperature ranges. In this work, we report self-calibrated double luminescent thermometers, embedding in a poly(methyl methacrylate) film Er3+- and Tm3+-doped upconverting nanoparticles. The Er3+-based primary thermometer uses the ratio between the integrated intensities of the 2