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A method for embedding light-emitting nanoparticles into glass without losing any of their unique properties could be a major step toward smart glass applications, such as 3D volumetric displays, biomedical imaging systems and remote radiation sensors. The "hybrid glass" combines the properties of novel lanthanide-containing upconversion nanoparticles with well-known aspects of glass, such as transparency and the ability to be processed into various shapes including fine optical fiber. Graphic representation of nanoparticles embedded in glass. Courtesy of the University of...Read full article

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    Published: June 2016
    Glossary
    glass
    A noncrystalline, inorganic mixture of various metallic oxides fused by heating with glassifiers such as silica, or boric or phosphoric oxides. Common window or bottle glass is a mixture of soda, lime and sand, melted and cast, rolled or blown to shape. Most glasses are transparent in the visible spectrum and up to about 2.5 µm in the infrared, but some are opaque such as natural obsidian; these are, nevertheless, useful as mirror blanks. Traces of some elements such as cobalt, copper and...
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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