Rare-Earth Doping for Optical Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2018) | Viewed by 34697
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Interests: glass; glass-ceramic; luminescence; fiber; film; crystals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Journal Applied Sciences (IF: 1.679; https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Rare-Earth Doping for Optical Applications".
Assist. Prof. Dr. Laeticia Petit of the Laboratory of Photonics, Tampere University of Technology (Finland), Prof. Dr. Dominik Dorosz of Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow (Poland) and Dr. Wilfried Blanc of Institut de Physique de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur (France) are serving as Guest Editors for this issue.
Over the past decades, research on the spectroscopic properties of rare-earths has quickly grown in importance, as rare-earth ions play a fundamental role in various optical applications from telecommunication and materials processing to sensing, and from medical diagnosis to energy to cite just a few applications. Intense levels of research have been focused on the development of new materials and designs. For example, phosphors activated by Eu2+, Eu3+ and Tb3+ ions find application in lighting and displays, whereas crystals and glasses doped with Er3+ and Yb3+ can be used for infrared-to-visible up-conversion. Although the number of luminescent materials in different matrices (crystalline, amorphous and glass ceramics; oxides, fluorides, chalcogenides, organics, etc.) or contained in molecular complexes has increased, there is a constant increase in demand for new rare-earth doped materials to extend their practical applications.
In this special issue, fundamental photoluminescent materials, properties and applications are considered. Topics to be covered include:
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Advanced luminescence property characterization and related instrument development—absorption, emission, modulation, carrier lifetime…
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Novel active materials, especially organic materials, crystalline materials, glasses and glass-ceramics
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Novel active devices and emerging applications of rare-earth doped optical materials
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Processing methods of active components in bulk, powder and waveguide forms
The submission deadline is 30 April 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
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For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Assist. Prof. Dr. Laeticia Petit
Prof. Dr. Dominik Dorosz
Dr. Wilfried Blanc
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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Rare-earths doping
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Luminescence
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Optical materials (organic, crystalline and amorphous materials)
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Optical devices
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