SelfSufficient and Highly Efficient Gold Sandwich
Multifunctional lanthanidedoped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have spread their wings in the fields of flexible optoelectronics and biomedical applications. One of the ongoing challenges lies in achieving UCNPbased nanocomposites, which enable a continuouswave (CW) laser action at ultralow thresholds. Here, gold sandwich UCNP nanocomposites [gold (Au1)UCNPgold (Au2)] capable of