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Luminescent Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Application

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 6137

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Dr. Amalia Mesaros

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Physics and Chemistry Department, Center for Superconductivity, Spintronics and Surface Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: nanomaterials; luminescence; photocatalysis; thin films; functionalized nanoparticles

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Being one of the most powerful features of our life, light brings us health, energy, brightness, and hope. Luminescent materials play a crucial role in the absorption of energy (photo-excitation, thermal-excitation, and electrical-excitation) followed by their conversion into light radiation. Nowadays, inorganic, organic or hybrid luminescent materials are used in almost every aspect of optoelectronics and photonics, such as in lighting, displays, energy conversion, optical information storage, sensing, and biomedicine–bioimaging/therapy.

This Special Issue focuses on recent progress made in the field of luminescent materials in light of their design, elaboration, and characterization. We warmly encourage you to submit your work to this Special Issue, which intends to become a collection of original research manuscripts or systematic reviews covering all aspects related to the design and development of new luminescent systems with high applicative potential.

The topics include but not limited to:

  1. Functional design and applications of new luminescent materials;
  2. Synthesis and characterization of low-dimensional luminescent systems (i.e. 0D, 1D, and 2D);
  3. Inorganic and organic luminescent materials for spectral conversion;
  4. Luminescent materials for biomedical applications;
  5. Luminescent systems for physical and chemical sensing.

Dr. Amalia Mesaros
Guest Editor

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Luminescent Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Application
by Amalia Mesaros
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(20), 11221; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132011221 - 12 Oct 2023
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Luminescent materials, or phosphors, are organic, inorganic, or hybrid organic/inorganic systems that convert certain types of energy into electromagnetic radiation over thermal radiation [...] Full article
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Enhancing the Photocatalytic Activity and Luminescent Properties of Rare-Earth-Doped CeO2 Nanoparticles
by Dana Toloman, Adriana Popa, Ramona Bianca Sonher, Rares Bortnic, Traian Florin Marinca, Ioana Perhaita, Miuța Filip and Amalia Mesaros
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(2), 522; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14020522 - 7 Jan 2024
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Our study is focused on the structural and morphological characteristics, optical behaviour and photocatalytic properties of undoped and 5 at% Eu3+-, Gd3+- and Y3+-doped CeO2 nanoparticles prepared by a green hybrid sol-gel combustion method. Several techniques [...] Read more.
Our study is focused on the structural and morphological characteristics, optical behaviour and photocatalytic properties of undoped and 5 at% Eu3+-, Gd3+- and Y3+-doped CeO2 nanoparticles prepared by a green hybrid sol-gel combustion method. Several techniques such as X-ray diffraction powder (XRD), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), UV-Vis spectroscopy, Photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL) and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) have been used to investigate the obtained samples. Moreover, the correlation between the characteristics and properties has been studied. The nanoparticles observed by TEM exhibit a pseudo-spherical shape, except for Y3+-doped CeO2, which presents an acicular shape. The average size of undoped and rare-earth-doped CeO2 nanoparticles is below 10 nm, in good agreement with the calculations performed based on XRD analyses. From UV-Vis analyses it has been deduced that with doping the band gap energy decreases, which shows that additional levels are introduced by doping into the CeO2 band gap. The EPR spectra evidence similar behaviour for all doped samples. The photocatalytic activity was evaluated by the degradation of rhodamine B (RhB) under UV light irradiation. The photodegradation mechanism has been studied in depth based on the formation of electron-hole pairs, and to evidence the reactive oxygen species, ESR coupled with spin-trapping experiments was performed. In the case of Y-doped CeO2 nanoparticles, the generation of both •OOH and •O2− radicals involved in RhB photodegradation was highlighted. Full article
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Improving Solar Cell Performance with High-Efficiency Infrared Quantum Cutting in Tb3+−Yb3+ Codoped Silica Hafnia Glass and Glass-Ceramic Thin Films
by Lamyae Oulmaati, Salima El Amrani, Khalid Bouziane, Adel Bouajaj, Mohammed Reda Britel, Francesco Enrichi and Maurizio Ferrari
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(16), 9390; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13169390 - 18 Aug 2023
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An efficient quantum cutting mechanism was observed in a system comprising Tb3+−Yb3+ codoped silica hafnia glass and glass-ceramic. Thin films were deposited on silicon substrates using the dip-coating method and photoluminescence dynamics revealed a quantum [...] Read more.
An efficient quantum cutting mechanism was observed in a system comprising Tb3+−Yb3+ codoped silica hafnia glass and glass-ceramic. Thin films were deposited on silicon substrates using the dip-coating method and photoluminescence dynamics revealed a quantum efficiency of up to 179% at 980 nm. These films can efficiently convert light to lower energy levels and can easily be integrated into silicon-based solar cells, increasing their photoelectric conversion efficiency at a low cost. This was demonstrated through electrical characterization, which revealed a boost in solar cell efficiency when the film was utilized. It was specifically noted that the efficiency of Si solar cells increased by 10.79% and 10.78% when covered with 70SiO2−30HfO2−3Tb3+−12Yb3+ glass and glass ceramic, respectively. Furthermore, an evaluation of the additional external quantum efficiency, derived from this optical system, revealed an improvement ranging from 2.64% to 3.44%. This finding highlights the enhanced light conversion capabilities of the quantum cutting mechanism within the system. Full article
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