For years, scientists have been looking for different techniques to make glasses perfect: fully
amorphous and ideally homogeneous. Meanwhile, recent advances in the development of …

Oxyfluoride glass-ceramics (OxGC) present attractive optical properties suitable for many
applications. The incorporation of fluoride crystals into silicate matrices improves the …

Visible to near-infrared quantum cutting and 2.0 μm near-infrared emissions have been
obtained in Ho 3+/Yb 3+ co-doped oxyfluoride transparent glass-ceramic, containing cubic …

Oxyfluoride glass-ceramics (OxGCs) are transparent materials composed by an oxide glass
matrix with homogeneously distributed fluoride nanocrystals. In particular, OxGCs with RE …

Transparent oxyfluoride glass-ceramic (OxGCs) coatings with composition 1.2 Nd 3+ 80SiO
2-20LaF 3 were prepared following a sol-gel route labelled “pre-crystallized nanoparticles …

Rare-earth doped oxyfluoride glass ceramics represent a new generation of tailorable
optical materials with high potential for optical-related applications such as optical …

Photonic glass-ceramics are two-phase materials constituted by nanometer sized crystals,
passive or activated by luminescent species, embedded in a glass matrix. Among the …

The synthesis and characterization of multicolor light-emitting nanomaterials based on rare
earths (RE3+) are of great importance due to their possible use in optoelectronic devices …

A review on ceramics, glasses and glass–ceramics as thin film protective coatings for solar
cells is given. The different preparation techniques and the physical and chemical properties …

In this work, the series of Tb3+/Eu3+ co-doped xerogels and derivative glass-ceramics
containing CaF2 nanocrystals were prepared and characterized. The in situ formation of …