Modern Luminescence from Fundamental Concepts to Materials and Applications, Volume 4
Luminescence in Solid-State Devices
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Surender Kumar Sharma, Carlos Jacinto da Silva, Daniel Jaque Garcia, Navadeep Shrivastava
- Language: English
Modern Luminescence From Fundamental Concepts to Materials and Applications, Volume Four: Luminescence in Solid State Devices is a multivolume work that reviews the fundament… Read more
Modern Luminescence From Fundamental Concepts to Materials and Applications, Volume Four: Luminescence in Solid State Devices is a multivolume work that reviews the fundamental principles, properties and applications of luminescent materials. Topics addressed include 1) The key concepts of luminescence with a focus on important characterization techniques to understand a wide category of luminescent materials, 2) The most relevant luminescent materials such as transition metals, rare-earth materials, actinide-based materials, and organic materials, and 3) The emerging applications of luminescent materials in biomedicine, solid state devices, and the development of hybrid materials.
The book reviews the latest advances in luminescent materials and their application in solid state lighting, energy and space. The volume also discusses advanced applications such as photonic energy materials, anti-counterfeiting, high power applications, and more. It will be suitable for materials scientists and engineers in academia and industry R&D.
- Discusses luminescent materials and their use in lighting and displays, energy, space and advanced applications
- Includes a wide range of materials for solid state device applications, including luminescent nanomaterials, phosphor materials, organic materials, and more to aid in materials selection
- Reviews the most relevant experimental optical techniques in the materials characterization of luminescent materials for solid state devices
Materials Scientists, Engineers, Physicists, Electrical Engineers
Part 1: New Lights
1. Photodetectors
2. Luminescent Nanomaterials in lighting and displays
3. Phosphor-based LEDs and Luminescence
4. Nano-opto materials for solid-state electronic switches and communication
Part 2: Energy Storage- Solar Cells
5. Luminescent Materials in Solar Cells
6. Solar spectral convertor for photovoltaic applications
7. Luminescent solar concentrators
8. Organic Solar Cells: Role of luminescence
Part 3: Luminescence in Space Science
9. Applications of luminescence in defense industry
10. Scanning Habitable Environments and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals
Part 4: Advance applications of luminescence in Devices
11. Light Converting Molecular devices
12. Nanomaterials for high energy radiation detection: Scintillation
13. Role of Nanomaterials in Anti-counterfeiting: Bar codes, ink, and Security
14. Power generation and conversion using nanomaterials: Role of Photonics
15. Efficient Optical Spectroscopy of Single Solid-State Quantum Emitters
16. Two Photon Nanolithography and applications
Part 5: Experimental Techniques
17. Spectroscopic Instrumentation IV
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 1, 2025
- Language: English
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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.Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Central University of Punjab, IndiaCJ
Carlos Jacinto da Silva
Dr. Carlos Jacinto da Silva received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Alagoas, Brazil, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph. D degree from the Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, in 2006. Since August 2006 he has been a professor of the Institute of Physics (IP) at UFAL. His current research interests include: materials for nanoscience and nanotechnology; fluorescence and thermal imaging; developments of materials and techniques for diagnosis and therapy; nanomaterials for nano-bio-photonics and smart lighting and green lighting; etc. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 referred papers; has presented more of 20 invited talks in conferences and universities/institutes; has advised at around 20 master-dissertations and doctorate-thesis and supervised more of 10 doctors. He is currently a Professor Associado III (penultimate level for full professor); since 2014 he is the director of IP-UFAL.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Group of Nano-Photonics and Imaging, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Maceio, BrazilDG
Daniel Jaque Garcia
Dr. Daniel Jaque Garcia is working as Professor in the Department of Materials Physics Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain since from 2007. He has received his D. Sc. in Physics from Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain in 1999. His current research interests include: Photonics, Spectroscopy and Nanotechnology. He is the author of more than 350 International peer reviewed papers. He has presented several invited talks in conferences and universities/institutes; and supervised more than 10 PhD students.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Materials Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid (AUM), Cantoblanco, Madrid, SpainNS
Navadeep Shrivastava
Dr. Navadeep Shrivastava has obtained his PhD from Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Surender Kumar Sharma in 2017. His expertise lies in the synthesis and characterizations of multifunctional nanomaterials based on magnetic nanoparticles and rare-earth spectroscopy. Currently, he is involved in research activities as a Researcher, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, Canada with a major research focus in design of multifunctional colloidal nanohybrids for thermal nanomedicine, multimodal imaging and nanothermometry.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada