Implementing Thermometry on Silicon Surfaces Functionalized by Lanthanide‐Doped Self‐Assembled Polymer Monolayers

Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation research grants BFU2009-12763/BFI, MAT2011-259911, TEC2011-29140, and TEC2014-51940, and Project Consolider-Ingenio in Molecular Nanoscience CSD2007-00010 are gratefully acknowledged. Moreover, the work was partially developed in the scope of the project CICECO − Aveiro Institute of Materials (Ref. FCT UID/CTM/50011/2013), financed by Portuguese funds through the FCT/MEC and when applicable cofinanced by FEDER under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement. C.D.S.B. and N.J.O.S. thank the Portuguese Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) for their grants (SFRH/BPD/89003/2012 and IF/01653/2013, respectively).