Achieving a combination of real-time diagnosis and therapy in a single platform with sensitive thermometry and efficient heat production is a crucial step towards controllable photothermal therapy. Here, Nd3+-doped Y2O3 nanoparticles prepared using the combined Pechini-foaming technique operating in the first and second biological windows were demonstrated as thermal sensors within the wide temperature range of 123-873 K, and as heaters with a temperature increase of 100 K. Thermal sensing was performed based on various approaches: luminescence intensity ratio (electronic levels; Stark sublevels), spectral line position and line bandwidth were used as temperature-dependent parameters. The applicability of these sensing parameters, along with relative thermal sensitivity and temperature resolution, are discussed and compared. The influence of Nd3+-doping concentration on thermometer and heater efficiency was also investigated.
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Kolesnikov, I. E., Kalinichev, A. A., Kurochkin, M. A., Mamonova, D. V., Kolesnikov, E. Y., Lähderanta, E., & Mikhailov, M. D. (2019). Bifunctional heater-thermometer Nd3+-doped nanoparticles with multiple temperature sensing parameters. Nanotechnology, 30(14). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aafcb8
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