Rare Earth-Doped Materials: Fabrication, Characterization and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The last 50 years have seen a rapid development in materials doped with rare earth ions. Luminescence from rare earth ions embedded in different matrices exhibits very attractive optical properties across a broad spectral region, owing to their unique electronic configuration. As such, rare earth-doped materials have numerous applications in many areas of research and industry. To date, applications of rare earth-doped materials include rare earth luminescence, phosphorescence, lighting, displays, solid-state laser and amplifier development, waveguiding, optical storage, sensing, and scintillator development. Despite the tremendous success of rare earth-doped materials, there is still an increasing demand for new materials as their practical applications extend to new frontiers.

New fabrication and characterization techniques have also emerged in response to newly developed materials and novel applications.

This Special Issue showcases the latest advances in materials doped with rare earth ions including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Fabrication and growth of rare earth-doped crystals, glasses, ceramics, glass-ceramics, thin films, nanoparticles, and other forms.
• Rare earth ions doped in fluorides, oxides, chalcogenides, and other matrices.
• Rare earth ions in molecular complexes and organic materials.
• Optical and electronic properties of rare earth-doped materials.
• Luminescence of rare earth-doped materials.
• Characterization of rare earth-doped materials.
• Spectroscopy of rare earth-doped materials.
• Applications of rare earth-doped materials.

The submission deadline is 20 November 2022. You may send your manuscript at any point from now until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies.

For further details on the submission process, please see the Instructions for Authors on the journal’s website.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Dr. Marilou Cadatal Raduban
Guest Editor

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• rare earth elements
• rare earth-doped materials
• luminescence
• phosphorescence
• fluorescence
• radioluminescence
• thermoluminescence
• spectroscopy
• optical materials
• single crystals
• glasses
• nanoparticles
• thin films
• scintillators
• lasers
• waveguiding
• sensors optical storage
• lighting and displays