A Luminescent Molecular Thermometer for Long-Term Absolute Temperature Measurements at the Nanoscale

keywords

ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRIDS; PHOSPHOR; FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; EUROPIUM(III); SPECTROSCOPY; CONVERSION; LIFETIME; SENSORS

subject category

Chemistry; Science & Technology - Other Topics; Materials Science; Physics

authors

Brites, CDS; Lima, PP; Silva, NJO; Millan, A; Amaral, VS; Palacio, F; Carlos, LD

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acknowledgements

We acknowledge Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal), COMPETE and FEDER programs (PTDC/CTM/101324/2008) and Integrated Spanish-Portuguese Action PT2009-0131 for financial support. The work in Zaragoza has been supported by the grants MAT2007-61621 and CONSOLIDER CSD2007-00010 from the Ministry of Education. CDSB (SFRH/BD/38472/2007) and PPL (SFRH/BPD/34365/2006) thank FCT for grants. NJOS acknowledges CSIC for a I3P contract and FCT for Ciencia 2008 program. We thank A. L. L. Videira for a critical reading of the manuscript; Carlos Vicente and Andre Martins (IT-Aveiro) for the help with the tests in the integrated circuit; and Victor Sorribas (Zaragoza) for the collaboration with the optical microscopy observations.

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