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Photon avalanche goes multicolour

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A new excitation scheme broadens the choice of colours for the near-infrared excitable photon avalanching nanoscale labels for super-resolution imaging.

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Fig. 1: Simplified mechanisms leading to multicolour photon avalanche in YbPr-YbTm core–shell PA nanoparticles.

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  1. Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

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  2. Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

    Marcin Szalkowski

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Bednarkiewicz, A., Szalkowski, M. Photon avalanche goes multicolour. Nat. Nanotechnol. 17, 440–442 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01100-9

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