This strategy led to the discovery of
NIR luminescence and also paves the way for other types of nanoparticle alloys that are useful not only in imaging, but in applications like catalysis for the industrial - scale conversion of fossil fuels into fine chemicals.
Also using our Contiuum nanosecond optical parametric oscillator OPO system, the Perkin Elmer Lambda 900 UV / VIS /
NIR and Princeton Instruments photon counting ICCD spectroscopic camera, we are studying the correlations in the chemical and physical origins of diamond
luminescence with lots of samples from the national mineral collection at the Smithsonian.