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photoluminescence

American  
[foh-tuh-loo-muh-nes-uhns] / ˌfoʊ təˌlu məˈnɛs əns /

noun

Physics.
  1. luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.


photoluminescence British  
/ ˌfəʊtəʊˌluːmɪˈnɛsəns /

noun

  1. luminescence resulting from the absorption of light or infrared or ultraviolet radiation

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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