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All-passive upconversion of incoherent near-infrared light at intensities down to 10$^{-7}$ W/cm$^2$

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Pith's one-line read An all-passive upconverter using triplet-triplet annihilation with plasmonic and dichroic enhancement converts incoherent near-infrared light near $10^{-7}$ W/cm$^2$ into the visible, making passive night-vision-scale imaging plausible.

desk verdict The imaging and engineering are credible and publishable; the 10^-7 W/cm^2 headline number is a small, unsecured excess over baseline. read the letter →

arxiv 2411.18707 v3 pith:NRDERZ5X submitted 2024-11-27 physics.optics cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.mtrl-sciphysics.app-ph

Rabeeya Hamid , Demeng Feng , Pournima Narayanan , Justin S. Edwards , Manchen Hu , Emma Belliveau , Minjeong Kim , Sanket Deshpande
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Chenghao Wan Linda Pucurimay David A. Czaplewski Daniel N. Congreve Mikhail A. Kats
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The reading

The paper claims that incoherent near-infrared light at irradiances down to about $10^{-7}$ W/cm$^2$ can be shifted into the visible with no electrical or optical power input, using triplet-triplet annihilation in an organic semiconductor film. The demonstrated device—a Y6/rubrene/DBP bulk heterojunction sandwiched between gold nanopillars that enhance NIR absorption and a dichroic thin-film stack that sends backward-emitted visible light forward—produces roughly $2$ nW/cm$^2$ of visible light over a $0.005$ cm$^2$ output beam at a measured input near $50$ nW/cm$^2$. Because the upconverter sits at an intermediate image plane and preserves ray angles, the same setup resolves about $100$–$110$ line pairs per millimeter and can image scattering objects under diffuse NIR light. If the result holds, it would be the lowest reported input intensity for a power-free incoherent upconversion imaging system, within an order of magnitude of nightglow and above the dark-adapted eye threshold for a pupil-collimated view.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is triplet-triplet annihilation in a Y6/rubrene/DBP bulk heterojunction, where Y6 absorbs a NIR photon and converts it through interfacial charge-transfer states into rubrene triplets; two triplets fuse into a high-energy singlet that emits from DBP around $610$ nm. Around that film, periodic gold nanopillars (period $340$ nm, diameter $170$ nm, height $40$ nm, with a $7$ nm SiO$_2$ passivation layer) create a localized plasmon resonance near $850$ nm that roughly doubles absorption in the heterojunction, and a $12$-layer Nb$_2$O$_5$/SiO$_2$ dichroic stack transmits NIR while reflecting visible light within a $30°$ half-angle to recover backward emission. The imaging architecture places the upconverter at the mutual focal plane of a NIR lens and a visible lens, so incident ray angles map to positions on the film and back to output angles; because exciton diffusion lengths are below $40$ nm, the film does not blur the image.

What would settle it

Falsification would come from a spectral or action-spectrum test at the lowest intensity: chop the $750$–$930$ nm input on and off, replace it with equal-power light outside the Y6 absorption band, and subtract a bare-glass control with the same filter stack; if the $\sim2$ nW/cm$^2$ visible excess does not vanish or scale with on-resonance input, the claim that upconversion operates at $50$ nW/cm$^2$ is not supported.

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Core claim

The central claim is that a single all-passive element can upconvert broadband, incoherent light in the $750$–$930$ nm band into visible light near $610$ nm at input intensities down to about $50$ nW/cm$^2$ (approximately $10^{-7}$ W/cm$^2$), with no external voltage or pump beam. The paper reports that the fully integrated upconverter emits around $2$ nW/cm$^2$ of visible light at that lowest input intensity, and that collimating this emission onto a fully dilated dark-adapted pupil would give about $0.02$ nW/cm$^2$, above the scotopic threshold near $0.005$ nW/cm$^2$. It also reports that the element, placed at the shared focal plane of NIR and visible lenses, preserves ray directionality and achieves upconversion imaging at $100$–$110$ lp/mm, with the limit set by relay-lens chromatic aberration rather than by the film or its nanophotonic overlay.

Load-bearing premise

At the lowest input intensity, the visible excess is only about $2$ nW/cm$^2$ sitting on a baseline of roughly $38$ nW/cm$^2$, so the load-bearing premise is that this small excess is genuine upconverted light rather than near-infrared leakage through the blocking filters or slow background drift.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A passive, battery-free NIR imager could operate at input intensities near $10^{-7}$ W/cm$^2$, orders of magnitude below parametric wave-mixing systems and below voltage-driven organic upconversion devices.
  • The measured output at the lowest input exceeds the estimated scotopic threshold when collimated onto a dilated pupil, so a directly eye-viewed night-vision eyepiece is a concrete near-term target.
  • Because the system works with broadband incoherent light, it can image reflective or scattering scenes illuminated by diffuse NIR, not only transmissive targets.
  • Resolution of $100$–$110$ lp/mm is limited by the NIR relay lens's chromatic aberration, so upgrading the relay optics should improve resolution without altering the upconverter.
  • The quadratic-to-linear threshold of TTA is reduced by roughly $35\%$ with the plasmonic resonator, which may allow the same film to operate efficiently at still lower intensities.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The measured total enhancement is about $4\times$, short of the simulated product because of an estimated $0.25$ µm air gap; removing the gap by monolithic fabrication should recover part of the missing factor and may lower the operating floor.
  • The paper's own Supporting Information S12 expected-efficiency estimate is an order of magnitude below the measured output; a direct EQE-versus-intensity measurement of the integrated stack would settle which number is off.
  • The observed roughly $35\%$ reduction of the quadratic-to-linear threshold suggests plasmonic near-fields act on triplet generation, not just absorption; resonators optimized for triplet density rather than absorption could push the operating floor lower.
  • The shared-focal-plane imaging geometry is material-agnostic; porting it to other incoherent upconverters, such as rare-earth or perovskite materials, would test whether the passivity and resolution advantages transfer.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. The manuscript reports a passive NIR-to-visible upconversion system based on triplet-triplet annihilation in a Y6/rubrene/DBP bulk heterojunction, enhanced by a dichroic backreflector and gold nanopillar plasmonic resonators, and integrated into a dual-wavelength Keplerian telescope for imaging. The authors claim upconversion of incoherent NIR light at input intensities down to ~10^-7 W/cm2, with ~2 nW/cm2 of visible output at ~50 nW/cm2 input, as well as imaging resolution near 100 lp/mm and demonstrations including flower images.

Significance. If the low-intensity claim is secure, this would be a notable advance for all-passive NIR imaging and sensing, roughly an order of magnitude above nightglow and far below previous passive upconversion demonstrations. The paper has several strengths: the imaging concept that preserves ray directionality is clearly explained; the qualitative upconversion imaging results are supported by multiple samples and control comparisons at higher intensities; and the FDTD simulations for the individual nanophotonic components are consistent with the measured factor-of-two enhancements. The main quantitative claim, however, currently rests on a background-limited measurement and an efficiency model that disagrees with the measurement by an order of magnitude, so the significance of the headline number is not yet established.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 4 and Methods 6.3, Fig. 4b] The central low-intensity result is not isolated from background. The text states that the fully integrated upconverter emits about 2 nW/cm2 at the lowest NIR intensity near 50 nW/cm2, but also states that the baseline from NIR filter leakage, ambient background, and dark current is about 38 nW/cm2, and that the bare-glass reading is not subtracted. The claimed signal is therefore only about 5% of the measured baseline. Without an on/off subtraction, a wavelength-resolved measurement, or a chopping/ lock-in scheme, the excess over the baseline cannot be attributed to upconverted 610 nm light. Please provide background-subtracted data with uncertainties, or an independent spectral or temporal discrimination of the upconverted signal at this intensity.
  2. [Supporting Information S12] The expected-efficiency calculation in S12 predicts a system efficiency of 0.0003% at 0.1 mW/cm2 on the upconverter, whereas the measured value is stated as about 0.003%, an order-of-magnitude discrepancy. The manuscript attributes this to setup differences and uncertainties, but this is a load-bearing point: the model does not corroborate the measured low-intensity output, and the discrepancy is in the direction consistent with background contamination inflating the measured signal. Please either refine the model with the actual LED spectrum, the measured intensity dependence, and the integrated-device geometry, or present a quantitative uncertainty budget that explains the factor-of-ten gap.
  3. [Supporting Information S9] The claimed total enhancement of about 4 for the fully integrated upconverter is obtained by comparing a measured enhancement of 3.9 with FDTD simulations over varying air-gap thickness and inferring an air gap of about 0.25 micrometers. This air-gap thickness is a free parameter that is not independently measured, and the inference uses a single data point to select it. Since the enhancement underpins the low-intensity performance claim, please provide a direct measurement of the gap (for example, cross-sectional imaging or interferometry) or, failing that, explicitly state that the 3.9x enhancement is a fit-dependent estimate and show the sensitivity of the low-intensity conclusion to this assumption.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Section 2, paragraph after Fig. 1g] The sentence beginning 'the resolution in our experiment...' starts with a lowercase letter after a full stop; please capitalize.
  2. [Supporting Information Fig. S4 caption] The word 'Periody' appears in the caption; this appears to be a typo for 'Period'.
  3. [Methods 6.3, minimum intensity measurement] Please clarify in the Fig. 4b axes or caption that the plotted visible intensity includes the unsubtracted baseline, and consider overlaying the subtracted curve (P_VIS - P_BG) with error bars, since the current presentation makes the 2 nW/cm2 claim difficult to evaluate.
  4. [Section 2, first paragraph] The phrase 'state-of-the-art TTA materials' is not referenced; please cite the relevant benchmark works or point to Table S2 for the comparison basis.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central low-intensity upconversion claim is a direct measurement, and the self-cited EQE input is used only as a sanity check.

full rationale

The paper's central claims are experimental demonstrations rather than derivations that reduce to their own inputs. The all-passive upconversion imaging claim rests on direct power measurements (Figs. 2g, 3f, 4a-b), imaging results (Figs. 1g, 4c-g), and simulations (S2-S5) whose inputs are independently characterized optical constants and standard FDTD/Zemax models. The low-intensity result in Fig. 4b is an empirical measurement of visible-side power versus NIR input intensity; it is not obtained by substituting the claimed output into an input equation. The only fitted structural parameter is the inferred ~0.25 μm air gap in the fully integrated upconverter (S9), used to reconcile a measured ~3.9 enhancement with a simulated ~4.6 enhancement; this is an inverse inference from a measurement, not a prediction derived from the claim. The expected-efficiency estimate in S12 uses the previously published bare-BHJ EQE from ref. 35 (which has overlapping authors) as an input, but the paper explicitly reports an order-of-magnitude discrepancy with the measured efficiency and treats the estimate only as a sanity check; the central demonstration does not rely on that estimate for its validity. The un-subtracted baseline noted in Fig. 4b is a measurement/background correction concern, not a circularity: no equation defines the claimed output in terms of the baseline or the input. Self-citations are present but are not load-bearing in the sense required for circularity: the cited EQE is an externally published empirical benchmark, not an unverified theorem invoked to force the conclusion. Therefore, no step in the derivation chain reduces to its own inputs by construction.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are introduced. The design relies on known photophysics of TTA upconversion, cited exciton diffusion lengths, and the validity of FDTD simulations with ellipsometry-measured optical constants. The main inferred parameter is the air-gap thickness in the integrated device, fitted to match the enhancement budget.

free parameters (1)
  • Air gap thickness in the fully integrated upconverter = ~0.25 μm
    Inferred in SI Section S9 by matching the measured total enhancement (~4x) to FDTD simulations of enhancement versus air-gap size; not directly measured and used to explain the shortfall from the simulated ~4.6x enhancement.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion in Y6/rubrene/DBP bulk heterojunction proceeds as described, with Y6 sensitizing rubrene triplets and DBP emitting.
    Assumed from refs 32 and 35; the paper does not re-derive the photophysics, and the measured EQE of the bare BHJ is taken from the authors' prior work (ref 35).
  • domain assumption Exciton diffusion length in the BHJ is less than 40 nm, so position information is preserved during upconversion.
    Cited from refs 41 and 42; this underpins the imaging resolution claim in Section 2.
  • domain assumption FDTD simulations with ellipsometry-determined optical constants accurately predict absorption and emission enhancement.
    Used in Sections 3.1, 3.2, and SI S2-S4 to design the plasmonic and dichroic structures; the simulations are compared with a few power measurements but not fully validated.
  • standard math Standard scotopic vision thresholds and the 27 lm/W luminous efficacy at 610 nm govern human-eye perceptibility.
    Taken from refs 45 and 46 and used in SI Section S6 to estimate that the proposed viewing system would produce visible intensities above threshold.

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abstract

Frequency upconversion, which converts low-energy photons into higher-energy ones, typically requires intense coherent illumination to drive nonlinear processes or the use of externally driven optoelectronic devices. Here, we demonstrate an upconversion system that converts low-intensity (down to ~10-7 W/cm$^2$) incoherent near-infrared (NIR) light into the visible, reaching intensities perceptible by the human eye, without the use of any external power input. Our upconverting element is enabled by the following ingredients: (1) photon upconversion via triplet-triplet annihilation in a bulk heterojunction of the organic semiconductors Y6 and rubrene; (2) plasmonic enhancement of absorption and field intensity in the heterojunction layer; (3) collection enhancement using a dichroic thin-film assembly. To enable high-resolution imaging, the upconverting element is inserted at an intermediate image plane of a dual-wavelength telescope system, which preserves the relative directionality of rays between the incident NIR light and output visible light. Our all-passive upconversion imaging system will enable NIR imaging and sensing in low-light environments under energy constraints.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2411.18707 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. NIR-to-visible upconversion imaging using a bulk heterojunction (BHJ) thin film. a, The upconverting device consists of a BHJ of organic molecules Y6 and DBP-doped rubrene, sealed between two glass pieces using epoxy glue32,33 to prevent oxygen ingress. b-c, Molecular diagram (b) and energy diagram (c) of TTA upconversion in the Y6/rubrene/DBP BHJ. Y6 absorbs incident NIR photons to generate excited singlets (S1), w… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Increasing collection efficiency using a beaming dichroic backreflector. a, A thin-film dichroic backreflector allows NIR light to pass through while reflecting visible light. b, Calculated angle￾dependent reflectance spectrum of the dichroic backreflector. Inset shows the simulated light extraction enhancement using FDTD simulations (Supporting Information, Section S2). c, Photo of the fabricated coating on a 1-inc… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Power measurement and imaging using the fully integrated upconverter. a, Output visible power measured against input NIR power for different regions on the fully integrated upconverter, compared to a bare BHJ upconverter. b, NIR intensity to system (beam area of ~4 cm2), as measured before focusing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗

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