Emerging Rare-Earth Doped Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 10342
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Interests: lanthanide; crystals and nanocrystals; nonlinear; biophotonics; solar cells
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Dear Colleagues,
Impurity doping is a common strategy that can be used to develop novel functional materials. In past decades, rare-earth (RE) elements have been widely used as dopants in host materials to impart new properties or modify their properties, significantly expanding their applications. Here, we are pleased to announce a Special Issue entitled “Emerging Rare-Earth Doped Materials” in Crystals. We intend to publish high-quality articles to present the latest discoveries and/or an overview of the field.
In light of recent advances, research articles, short communications, and review articles that are related but not limited to the following topics are encouraged to be submitted to this Special Issue:
- Novel rare-earth doped materials with different compositions and/or architectures;
- Various strategies for doping host materials with rare-earth elements;
- Characterization methods for rare-earth doped materials and analysis of physical/chemical properties;
- Application of computational methods and data science in the research of rare-earth doped materials, such as density functional theory (DFT), and machine learning;
- Practical applications of rare-earth-doped materials, especially in new areas such as lasers, bioimaging, catalysis, etc.
Prof. Dr. Guanying Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rare earth
- single crystals
- bulk materials
- nanocrystals
- phosphors
- rare earth luminescent materials
- semiconductors
- insulators
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