Luminescent Properties of Materials and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decade, there has been great progress in the new technologies of synthesis of pure and multiphase materials, doping methods, and structurization of metamaterials significantly extending the applications of luminescent materials. 

The luminescence of materials and structures can be successively used for development in the field of new photonic devices: optical fibers and waveguides, sensors, light sources (wideband and lasers), information storage and management, and medicine. Their optical, chemical, and bioactivity results from the possibility of their modification with functional compounds (organic compounds, lanthanides, nanocrystals) or nanostructurization (photonic bandgap effect, thin films). The organic dyes exhibit high fluorescence quantum yield, wide absorption, and emission bands, overlapping absorption and emission spectra, and short fluorescence decay time. Moreover, the characteristic multiband emission spectrum of the aromatic hydrocarbons results from their specific compounds structures. Lanthanides, thanks to a well-defined luminescence spectrum, significant Stokes shift, and long luminescence decay time, are commonly used for optical fiber radiation sources and lasers. Lanthanide doped nanocrystals offer high efficiency and narrow emission bands due to their local environment effect. The availability of various methods for introducing dopants in the host materials—glasses, crystals, ceramics, glass ceramics, polymers, and nanocomposites—offers significant progress in their applications.

In this Special Issue, novel luminescent materials and their applications are highlighted and discussed. It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue of Materials entitled “Luminescent Properties of Materials and Their Applications”.

Dr. Piotr Miluski
Guest Editor

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