The present review article covers the history, featured properties and modern state of
inorganic, physical and materials chemistry of transparent oxyfluoride glass ceramics. The …

Handbook of Nanophysics: Functional Nanomaterials illustrates the importance of tailoring
nanomaterials to achieve desired functions in applications. Each peer-reviewed chapter …

A scanning thermal microscope that uses a fluorescent particle as a temperature probe has
been developed. The particle, made of a rare-earth ion-doped fluoride glass, is glued at the …

Tb3+‐doped germanate glass ceramics containing CaF2 nanocrystals were prepared by
melt quenching method with subsequent heat treatment. Their microstructures were …

Novel Yb/Er (Tm): Na3MF7 (M= Zr, Hf) nanocrystals with intrinsic single-band upconversion
emission, in contrast to the routine lanthanide-doped fluoride nanocrystals which show …

The oxyfluoride glass ceramics (GCs) containing novel Na (Y 1.5 Na 0.5) F 6 (NYNF)
nanocrystals: Bi 3+/Eu 3+ were successfully fabricated. The results of the transmission …

Novel rare earth doped glass ceramics containing NaY (WO4) 2 nanocrystals were
fabricated for the first time. The appearance of sharp diffraction peaks and well-resolved …

Transparent oxyfluorosilicate glass-ceramics containing cubic SrF 2 nanocrystals doped
with Dy 3+, Tb 3+, and Dy 3+/Tb 3+ were successfully synthesized by melt quenching …

Transparent oxyfluoride glass–ceramics containing BaYF5 nanocrystals were successfully
synthesized by appropriate heat-treatment on the SiO2–Al2O3–Na2O–BaF2–Y2O3–Pr6O11 …

Ytterbium (Yb^ 3+)-doped oxyfluoride SiO_2-Al_2O_3-CdF_2-PbF_2-YF_3 glass and nano-
glass-ceramic (ie glass-ceramics containing nanocrystals) single-index optical fibers were …