Europium thenoyltrifluoroacetonate (EuTFC) has an optical luminescence line at 612 nm, whose activation efficiency decreases strongly with temperature. If a sample coated with a thin film of this material is micro-imaged, the 612 nm luminescent response intensity may be converted into a direct map of sample surface temperature.
Benseman, T. M., Hao, Y., Vlasko-Vlasov, V. K., Welp, U., Koshelev, A. E., Kwok, W., Divan, R., Keiser, C., Watanabe, C., Kadowaki, K. High-resolution Thermal Micro-imaging Using Europium Chelate Luminescent Coatings. J. Vis. Exp. (122), e53948, doi:10.3791/53948 (2017).