Upconverting Nanoparticles

Photon upconversion technology using nanoparticles is explained from first principles right up to novel and future applications in imaging, sensing, catalysis, energy technology, biomedicine, and many other areas.

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Vineet Kumar Rai is Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology at Dhanbad (India). Professor Rai holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Banaras Hindu University. He worked as a Research Associate at the same university, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). Professor Rai's main interest is in the synthesis and optical characterization of lanthanides-activated advanced materials, including the upconversion spectroscopy of rare earth ions doped advanced optical materials and their applications.