Journal
Discover Nano
Discover Nano is an open access journal publishing research from across all areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Rare earth-doped nanomaterials with unique electrical magnetic and optical properties caused worldwide scientists' research interests, especially its special properties such as sharp line in optical transmission, highly coherent optical and spin transitions, adequate anti-Stokes emission efficiency and excellent photo-stability make it have unique advantages in the field of biomedicine, single-photon sources, quantum storage and transduction. How to improve the luminescence efficiency of the rare earth-doped nanomaterials and rugulate its optical properties, and according to the people‘s will design synthesis of new functional materials, shedding light on basic nanomaterial research and expanding its application market is of great importance. The purpose of this collection is to gather high-quality research results from all fields of nanophotonics involving rare earth ion luminescence, with the intention of identifying rare earth-doped nanomaterials that exhibit extraordinary optical properties for nanooptic applications in the future.
Keywords: Rare earth ions dopped luminescence; nanomaterials; nanophotonics; optical properties regulation; luminescence lifetime, near-filed regulation; high resolution spectra.
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Zhenglong Zhang
Prof. Zhenglong Zhang, PhD, Shaanxi Normal University, ChinaProf. Zhang’s main research field is nanooptics, and he has made a number of original research achievements in near-field regulation on rare earth luminescence, including the first achievement on the f electron transition lifetime down to the nanosecond level. He has published more than 120 papers in the journals of Nature Photonics, Light: Science and Applications, etc., and won awards such as Top Ten Advances in Optics in China, as well as the titles of Humboldt Fellow in Germany, etc. He is a member of the Light Scattering Committee of the Chinese Physical Society.
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Huan Chen
A/Prof. Huan Chen, PhD, Shaanxi Normal University, ChinaDr. Chen's research interests are in near-field regulation, plasmonic nanocavities and rare earth ion luminescence. She has achieved a number of innovative achievements, such as controlling rare earth ions luminescence in the frequency domain and time domain utilizing the near-field effect of plasmonic nanocavity, and identified a new mechanism of excitation state absorption and resonance energy transfer mediated by plasmons. As the first author, she published a lot, including articles in Nature Photonics, ACS Photonics. She has won the Top Ten Advances in Optics in China, etc.
