Full bibliographic details are now available for two new up-conversion related publications. These articles are the first first-author articles for Minnea and Emilia, so yay for them! You can check the contents from the links below.

Tuomisto, M., Palo, E., Laihinen, T., Hyppänen, I., Lastusaari, M., Swart, H.C., and Hölsä, J., Effect of Mn and Cr Doping on the Up-Conversion Luminescence from NaYF₄:Yb³⁺,Er³⁺, Opt. Mater. 59 (2016) 115–119.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2016.01.016

Palo, E., Pihlgren, L., Tuomisto, M., Laihinen, T., Hyppänen, I., Kankare, J., Lastusaari, M., Soukka, T., Swart, H.C., and Hölsä, J., Up-conversion Luminescence of the NaYF₄:Yb³⁺,Er³⁺ Nanomaterials Prepared With the Solvothermal Synthesis, Opt. Mater. 59 (2016) 49–54.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2016.02.043

During summer a new publication from our Brazilian collaborators and José concerning microwave-assisted solid-state synthesis came out – check the link below!

Pedroso, C.C.S., Carvalho, J.M., Rodrigues, L.C.V., Hölsä, J., and Brito, H.F., Rapid and Energy Saving Microwave-Assisted Solid-State Synthesis of Pr³⁺, Eu³⁺ or Tb³⁺-Doped Lu₂O₃ Persistent Luminescence Materials, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 8 (2016) 19593-19604.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b04683

Check out our new collaboration publication about fluorophosphate glasses.

Cui, S., Massera, J., Lastusaari, M., Hupa, L., and Petit, L., Novel fluorophosphate glasses and glass-ceramics, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 445-446 (2016) 40-44.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2016.05.005

Check out our new interesting publication about the mechanisms of tenebrescence and persistent luminescence in synthetic hackmanites. Well done, everyone!

Norrbo, I., Gluchowski, P., Hyppänen, I., Laihinen, T., Laukkanen, P., Mäkelä, J., Mamedov, F., Santos, H.S., Sinkkonen, J., Tuomisto, M., Viinikanoja, A., and Lastusaari, M., Mechanisms of tenebrescence and persistent luminescence in synthetic hackmanite Na₈Al₆Si₆O₂₄(Cl,S)₂, ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 8 (2016) 11592−11602.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b01959