Laser Control of Creation and Growth of Crystals
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials science in glasses; structural defects in glasses; laser induced material property change; material optical properties changes; laser induced chemical migration or valence change or luminescence; non photochemical laser induced transformation including crystallization; self-organized nanostructure; optical materials; direct laser writing; DLW; ultrafast IR laser or UV ns-laser; optical design; photonics; integrated optics; optical fibers; volume laser machining; Bragg gratings; nano gratings; optical devices
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Dear Colleagues,
The use of lasers of various types to control crystallization in condensed matter (liquids or solids, organic or inorganic) has shown a tremendous increase in recent years. This emergence arises not only for the production of microcrystals, enabled by thermodynamics, but also new kinetics products. On the other hand, the generalization of ultra-fast lasers opens new possibilities beyond the use of energy carried by light. It may also involve the manipulation of the electromagnetic vector (polarization, i.e., spin angular momentum), its type and distribution, and light phase spatial distribution (excluding Gaussian beam carrying an orbital angular momentum). These open the possibility of managing crystal orientation and distribution, and in turn, their physical properties like conductivity, pyro-electricity, ferro-magnetism, ferro-electricity, non-linear optics, etc., particularly for non-centro-symmetric or chiral compounds. These can be achieved in 3D, if necessary, for targeted application.
For a more in-depth elaboration, a large extent of studies are necessary to understand the effect of laser processing parameters. This is the reason for sharing the results from different laboratories, as well as from various fields including chemistry, solid state physics, and optics.
Numerous applications are expected for the following: micro-electronics, micro-optics, the pharmaceutical domain, sensors or telecommunication, and so on and so forth.
Prof. Dr. Bertrand Poumellec
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- glass crystallization
- organic crystallization
- three-dimensional direct writing technique
- ultra-fast processes in optics
- optical nonlinearities control in condensed matter
- photosensitivity
- polymorphism control
- optical chirality control
- laser-induced new crystalline phases
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