Electric‐Field‐Regulated Energy Transfer in Chiral Liquid Crystals for Enhancing Upconverted Circularly Polarized Luminescence through Steering the Photonic Bandgap
Xuefeng Yang, Minghao Zhou, Yafei Wang, Pengfei Duan
Abstract
Abstract Circularly polarized luminescent materials with high dissymmetry factor ( g lum ) have been attracting increasing attention due to their distinctive photonic properties. In this work, by incorporating upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) and CsPbBr 3 perovskite nanocrystals (PKNCs) into a chiral nematic liquid crystal (N*LC), enhanced upconverted circularly polarized luminescence (UC‐CPL) based on a radiative energy transfer (RET) process from UCNPs to CsPbBr 3 PKNCs is successfully implemented. By locating the emission peak of CsPbBr 3 PKNCs at the center of the photonic bandgap of N*LC, the maximum g lum value of UC‐CPL can be amplified to an extremely large value of 1.1. Meanwhile, upconverted emission of UCNPs can be significantly enhanced due to the band edge enhancement effect of the N*LC, subsequently enhancing the emission of the CsPbBr 3 PKNCs through the RET process. In addition, an applied electric field can switch the upconverted emission of the UCNPs, as well as the RET process, enabling an electric‐field‐controlled UC‐CPL switch.