Advanced Luminescent and Fluorescent Materials for Photonic Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editor
Interests: transparent ceramics; optical functional crystals; scintillation crystals and ceramics; solid state lighting; fluorescent materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Greetings!
This is Hui Lin, a researcher working on inorganic materials luminescence at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China.
Advanced luminescent and phosphor materials—including fluorescent and phosphor particles, quantum dots, glasses, ceramics, single crystals, proteins, and metal–organic frameworks, etc.—are crucial in various practical applications, including optical communication, lighting and display systems, anti-counterfeiting, optical storage, industrial inspection, and bio-medical sciences. In recent years, significant breakthroughs have been achieved in terms of conversion efficiency, expected excitation/emission wavelength and bandwidth, luminescence thermal stability or sensitivity, luminescence control via certain stimuli, and functional diversity, which substantially expand these materials’ potential. To summarize recent achievements in this field and promote innovation, the Photonics journal is planning to launch a Special Issue on “Advanced Luminescent and Fluorescent Materials for Photonic Applications”, for which it is my great honor to be serving as Guest Editor.
I’m writing to invite you to contribute your work on advanced luminescent and fluorescent materials for photonic applications such as solid-state lighting, laser systems, scintillation, optical sensing, integrated optics, etc.
We would greatly appreciate your submission, which we believe will add significant value to the Special Issue.
Thank you very much!
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Hui Lin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- transparent ceramics
- optical properties
- optical applications
- laser ceramics
- scintillator ceramics
- transparent ceramic armor
- Faraday ceramic materials
- optical functional crystal
- solid-state lighting
- fluorescent materials
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