photoluminescence
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of photoluminescence
First recorded in 1885–90; photo- + luminescence
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It vastly improves mapping of the optical properties of short-wave infrared photoluminescence lifetimes.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
Finally, the operation that allocates the temporal information of photoluminescence to different spatial positions ensures that the entire process of 1D photoluminescence intensity decay can be recorded in a single snapshot, without repeated excitation.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
As a result, the pixel dwelling time needed to build the photoluminescence intensity decay curve is much longer.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
However, the long photoluminescence lifetimes of rare-earth doped nanoparticles in the infrared spectrum, from hundreds of microseconds to several milliseconds, restrict the excitation's repetition rate.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
Experimental determination of the optical gap involved photoluminescence and photoabsorption experiments.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
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