Modern Luminescence from Fundamental Concepts to Materials and Applications, Volume 2

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. 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. 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. 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.

1. Quantum confine Materials and Luminescence: Inorganic Quantum dots 2. Applications of luminescence in quantum dot-based nanostructures 3. Photonics of carbon nanorods 4. Luminescence in metal clusters 5. Luminescence in doped materials

Unit 2: Rare-earth elements 5. Energetics and Spectroscopic properties of lanthanides-based systems 6. Rare earth spectroscopy and nanomaterials 7. Lanthanide doped Matrices and persistent luminescence 8. Doped Fluoride matrices and luminescence enhancement 9. Luminescence characteristics in Ln- based organic frameworks

Unit 3: Actinides 10. Capitalizing Optical signals in Actinide based materials 11. Applications of luminescence in radioactive materials

Unit 4: Organics 12. Photochemistry and Physics of organic molecules 13. Quantum Confined organic materials 14. Applications of luminescence in organic molecules 15. Bioluminescence

Unit 5: Experimental Techniques 16. Spectroscopic Instrumentation II