Near infrared (NIR) luminescent materials are an exciting playground for
telecommunications, biosciences and solar energy conversion. In particular, transition metal …

The mid-infrared (MIR) represents a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is
progressively being exploited for an enormous number of applications. Thermal imaging …

Abstract Silicon (Si) photodetectors (PDs) have been extensively utilized as an attractive
building block for optoelectronic devices, but are limited by the weak ultraviolet (UV) photo …

Transparent nanocrystal-in-glass composite (NGC) comprising functional nanocrystals in
transparent inorganic glass creates a new bridging from nano/microscale structure to …

Much can be learned from the research and development of scintillator crystals for improving
the scintillation performance of glasses. Relying on the concept of “embedding crystalline …

Glass ceramics (GCs), which consist essentially of a homogeneous solid state dispersion of
nanocrystals (NCs) embedded in a chemically inert and mechanically robust glass matrix …

Realizing high-sensitivity, accurate non-contact cryogenic optical thermometry based on
upconversion (UC) luminescence holds significant application value in numerous advanced …

A review of recent works with glasses and glass-ceramics having characteristics appropriate
to be used in various types of optical devices is presented. Germanate and tellurite glasses …

Nano-glasses are next-generation scintillators combining favorably the merits of both
scintillator crystals and glasses. Here, a new nano-glass scintillator is prepared embedding …

The improvement of solid-state luminescence technology is an important way to cope with
the current severe energy consumption. For the efficient utilization of rare earth ions, Bi 3+ …