Photonic Glasses and Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

It is of great pleasure to me to be in touch with you and invite you to contribute to the Special Issue entitled “Photonic Glasses and Nanomaterials,” for which I am a guest editor. Being an expert and active researcher at the forefront of the topics covered in this Special Issue, I solicit your contributed papers covering the latest research to this Special Issue.

Glasses and nanomaterials with photonic functionalities are a rapidly growing area of basic research and application. This Special Issue will focus on recent basic and applied research on bulk glasses, thin films/waveguides, and nanomaterials with light-emitting properties induced by rare earth/transition metal ion doping, optical nonlinearity (e.g., SHG), thermal effects, and electrical excitation. Applications can be in any areas such as lasers, amplifiers, lighting, biosensing, bioimaging, integrated optics, thermochromic materials, and solar cells, to list a few.

Prof. Gin Jose
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• photonic glasses
• rare earth doped materials
• phosphorus
• glass thinfilms and waveguides
• nonlinear glasses
• nanoparticles
• upconversion and downconversion nanoparticles and glass
• light emitting properties
• photonic biosensors
• biomedical imaging