Scientists of the Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław, together with researchers from the USA and South Korea, have developed new colloidal nanomaterials capable of avalanche emission of photons. The research results are described in the latest issue of Nature.
In the process of avalanche photon emission, its intensity increases disproportionately (avalanche- like) in relation to the excitation intensity – it resembles the behavior of a transistor or the principle of laser operation, but takes place with the use of near-infrared photons.
The obtained results define new directions of material research in order to develop new avalanche materials with different emission colors and open up completely new possibilities of using nanotechnology in the construction of biological sensors
Scientists of Columbia University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) and the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (South Korea) also participated in the study.
