Advances in Optical Materials and Devices: From Fundamentals to Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thin films; photoconductive detectors; scintillators; optical materials; vacuum ultraviolet laser materials; ultraviolet laser and amplifier systems; spectroscopy of rare earth-doped crystals and glasses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will publish new experimental and theoretical results, as well as concise reviews, related to the broad field of optical materials, structures, and devices. Relevant topics are not limited to fundamental research. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts focusing on the practical applications of optical materials, structures, and devices, including, but not limited to, lasers, optical sensors, scintillators, photovoltaics, light-emitting devices, phosphors, nanomaterials, thin films, and other related topics.
This Special Issue is open to both original research articles and review articles covering the relevant progress in, among others, the following fields:
- Crystal growth technologies (bulks, fibers);
- Fabrication and characterization of transparent ceramics and glasses;
- Synthesis and optical properties of nano- and microcrystals;
- Thin films for optical applications;
- Spectroscopy of luminescent materials;
- Persistent luminescent materials;
- Laser materials and laser systems;
- Scintillator materials and mechanisms;
- Light-emitting devices and phosphors;
- Optical sensors;
- Piezoelectric crystals and component design;
- Nonlinear optical materials;
- Magneto-optic materials;
- Modelling and computational methods in luminescent materials;
- Metamaterials;
- Nanomaterials;
- Nanostructures.
Dr. Marilou Cadatal Raduban
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- optical materials
- structures
- devices
- nanomaterials
- sensors
- materials science
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