
Modern Luminescence from Fundamental Concepts to Materials and Applications, Volume 1
Concepts of Luminescence
- 1st Edition - November 23, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Surender Kumar Sharma, Carlos Jacinto da Silva, Daniel Jaque Garcia, Navadeep Shrivastava
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 9 9 5 4 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 4 7 0 - 6
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Request a sales quoteModern Luminescence: From Fundamental Concepts to Materials and Applications, Volume One, Concepts and Luminescence is a multivolume work that reviews the fundamental principles, properties and applications of luminescent materials. Topics addressed include key concepts of luminescence, with a focus on important characterization techniques to understand a wide category of luminescent materials. The most relevant luminescent materials, such as transition metals, rare-earth materials, actinide-based materials, and organic materials are discussed, along with emerging applications of luminescent materials in biomedicine, solid state devices, and the development of hybrid materials.
This book is an important introduction to the underlying scientific concepts needed to understand luminescence, such as atomic and molecular physics and chemistry. Other topics explored cover the latest advances in materials characterization methods, such as Raman spectroscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, nonlinear spectroscopy, and more. Finally, there is a focus on the materials physics of nanophotonics.
- Includes an overview of the underlying scientific concepts of luminescence, such as quantum theory, physics and historical context
- Provides the most important materials characterization methods, including Raman spectroscopy, nonlinear spectroscopy, and more for a wide range of luminescent materials
- Introduces nanophotonics dynamics that are important to keep in mind when designing materials and devices
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Unit 1: Atomic physics
- 1. Review of quantum physics and atomic theory
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Failures of classical physics: the particle nature of radiation
- 1.3 The photoelectric effect
- 1.4 Bohr model for hydrogen atom (single electron system)
- 1.5 Explanation of the observed spectra of the hydrogen atom
- 1.6 Introduction to quantum mechanical principles
- 1.7 Postulates of quantum mechanics
- 1.8 Schrödinger wave equation
- 1.9 Eigenvalues and eigenfunction
- 1.10 Time-independent Schrödinger equation
- 1.11 Solution of Schrödinger wave equation for one-electron system
- 1.12 Radiative transitions and selection rules
- 1.13 Quantum mechanical model of atom
- 1.14 Spin-orbit coupling
- References
- Further reading
- 2. Quantum theory of many electron atoms and energy levels
- Abstract
- 2.1 Many-particle quantum systems
- 2.2 Hamiltonian for multielectron atoms
- 2.3 Quantum mechanics of atomic orbitals
- 2.4 Thomas Fermi model
- References
- 3. Fine structure in atomic spectra: electron spin and energy
- Abstract
- 3.1 Atomic spectra
- 3.2 Categorizing emission and absorption spectra
- 3.3 Introduction to energy levels, electron’s orbital and spin motion and their interaction
- 3.4 Electrons in atoms and quantum theory
- 3.5 Fine structures
- 3.6 Atomic structure and orbital energies
- 3.7 The Aufbau principle/electronic configuration
- 3.8 Spin-orbit interaction in atoms
- 3.9 Dawn of hyperfine structures in atomic spectra
- 3.10 Importance of atomic fine structures
- References
- Unit 2: Molecular physics and chemistry
- 4. Resonance Raman spectroscopy versus photoluminescence: the role of the electronic energy levels
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Electron photon and electron-phonon coupling
- 4.3 Excited states and their lifetimes
- 4.4 Carbon nanotubes as a model system
- 4.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Unit 3: Laser physics and new lights
- 5. Nonlinear spectroscopy of metal-dielectric nanocomposites
- Abstract
- 5.1 Brief historical introduction
- 5.2 Nonlinear optics and nonlinear optical spectroscopy
- 5.3 Techniques for nonlinear optical characterization of materials
- 5.4 Nonlinear spectroscopy of metal-dielectric nanocomposites
- 5.5 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 6. Scopes of laser in spectroscopy
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Absorption and emission of the radiation
- 6.3 Relationship between Einstein’s coefficients
- 6.4 Laser device as an optical resonator
- 6.5 Methods of achieving population inversion
- 6.6 Optical pumping
- 6.7 Electric discharge or excitation by electrons
- 6.8 Inelastic atom-atom collisions
- 6.9 Thermal pumping
- 6.10 Chemical or nuclear reactions
- 6.11 Stability of a cavity
- 6.12 Q-switching in laser
- 6.13 Modes locking
- 6.14 Gas lasers
- 6.15 Harmonics and harmonic generation
- 6.16 Application of lasers in spectroscopy
- References
- Unit 4: Dynamics of nanophotonics
- 7. Fundamentals of light–matter interaction
- Abstract
- 7.1 Interaction between electromagnetic fields and atom
- 7.2 The major ways of light–matter interaction
- 7.3 Classical treatment of light–matter interaction
- 7.4 Quantized interaction of light and matter
- 7.5 Weak and strong coupling regime
- 7.6 Laser–matter interaction
- 7.7 Coherence domains
- 7.8 Applications of light–matter interaction
- 7.9 Future perspectives and concluding remarks
- References
- 8. Nanocontrol of excitation and emission mechanism
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Photoluminescence in nanomaterials: fluorescence, phosphorescence, and persistent luminescence mechanisms
- 8.3 Modulation of absorption and emission mechanisms in quantum dots and rare-earth-doped nanomaterials
- 8.4 Downconversion and upconversion mechanisms at nanoscale
- 8.5 State-of-the-art of luminescence nanocontrol: nanothermometers, photodynamic therapy, scintillators, and anticounterfeiting
- 8.6 Summary
- References
- 9. Nanophotonics in modern plasmonics and nanolasers
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction to nanophotonics and plasmonics
- 9.2 Basics on plasmonics
- 9.3 Nanoplasmonics as the modern interface between nanophotonics and plasmonics: examples in nonlinear optics and biosensing
- 9.4 Plasmonic nanolasers and random lasers
- 9.5 Summary and outlook
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 10. Physics of photonic crystals and applications
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Photonic bandgap
- 10.3 One-dimensional photonic crystal
- 10.4 Two-dimensional photonic crystals
- 10.5 Three-dimensional photonic crystals
- 10.6 Applications
- 10.7 Lasers
- 10.8 Hetero-structures
- 10.9 Conclusion
- References
- Unit 5: Experimental techniques
- 11. Experimental techniques for phosphor characterization
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 X-ray diffraction technique
- 11.3 Scanning electron microscopy
- 11.4 Light scattering experiment
- 11.5 Ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy
- 11.6 Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- 11.7 Luminescence measurement techniques
- 11.8 Photoacoustic spectroscopy
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 23, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 402
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323899543
- eBook ISBN: 9780323984706
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Surender Kumar Sharma
Dr. Surender Kumar Sharma is an Associate Professor in Physics at the Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India. Prior to joining his current university, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil.
He has received his Ph.D. in Physics with specialization in Materials Science from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India in collaboration with Inter University of Accelerator Centre, New Delhi. He received the FAPEMA Senior researcher award in 2015. His research interests include magnetic nanohybrids, luminescent nanomaterials, their synthesis, characterization and utilization in magnetic and biomedical applications.CJ
Carlos Jacinto da Silva
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Daniel Jaque Garcia
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