Scientists Made A Breakthrough In LED Tech That Could Change Everything
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Key Points:
- Researchers at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory have discovered a way to conduct electricity through insulating lanthanide nanoparticles (LnNPs), which were previously unable to conduct electric current.
- By hybridizing LnNPs with 9-ACA organic dye molecules, the team replaced surface insulators and enabled charging via triplet energy transfer, overcoming the particles' energy gap limitations.
- This breakthrough allows the creation of LnLEDs that emit highly pure near-infrared light with improved efficiency and narrowness compared to most organic NIR LEDs.
- The new hybrid LEDs have potential applications in biomedical tools, particularly for non-bleaching deep tissue imaging, and the method is scalable for further experimentation with other insulators.
- While the researchers
