Development and Applications of Transition Metal or Rare Earth -based Luminescent Inorganic Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 23497
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of new, efficient, and environmentally-friendly technologies constitutes a crucial challenge to this and the next generations of scientists. Among the materials of great present and future perspective of use, inorganic luminescent solids occupy a key place: Lighting, sensing, labelling, photonics, diagnostics, and photocatalysis are only some examples of their fields of application. Research activity is continuously growing together with the demand for materials with ever newer features, suitable for more and more sophisticated applications.
This Special Issue of Crystals is dedicated to all aspects related to the development, characterization, and applications of inorganic luminescent materials containing transition metal or rare earth ions, with the aim to provide an overview of the issues of current interest, without, of course, any claim to completeness and/or exhaustiveness.
Researchers working in the field are invited to contribute. Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Synthesis and characterization techniques of optical materials;
- Fundamental photoluminescence properties and spectroscopic measurements;
- Excited states dynamics: Charge transfer, energy transfer processes, etc.;
- Thermoluminescence, afterglow;
- Modeling, first-principles calculations, etc.;
- Crystals, glasses, amorphous materials, glass ceramics, transparent ceramics;
- Nanoparticles and nanocomposites;
- Optical amplifiers, lasers;
- Phosphors for X-rays, UV, solid-state lighting, displays, imaging;
- Scintillators;
- Wavelength converters for efficient photovoltaic systems;
- Luminescent materials for biological applications;
- Optical thermometers.
Prof. Dr. Enrico Cavalli
Guest Editor
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