An International Journal on the Physics and Chemistry of Optical Materials and their Applications, including Devices

Optical Materials has an open access companion journal Optical Materials: X which has the same aims and scope, editorial board and peer-review process. To submit to Optical Materials: X visit https://www.editorialmanager.com/OMX/default.aspx.

The purpose of Optical Materials is to provide a means of communication and technology transfer between researchers who are interested in materials for potential device applications. The journal publishes original papers and review articles on the design, synthesis, characterisation and applications of optical materials.OPTICAL MATERIALS focuses on:

• Optical Properties of Material Systems;
• The Materials Aspects of Optical Phenomena;
• The Materials Aspects of Devices and Applications.

Authors can submit separate research elements describing their data to Data in Brief and methods to Methods X.

Manuscripts that focuses on pure computational methodology falls outside of the scope of this journal.

Special Issue on Optical glasses, the research pillar of photonics: In celebration of the 80th birthday of Prof. Giancarlo C. Righini
Submission Date: 2024-12-31

This SI aims to recognize the long and brilliant activity of Prof. Giancarlo C. Righini in the field of optical glasses with a series of articles devoted to glass photonics and its application in crucial areas of past, modern, and future science and technology.

Prof Giancarlo C. Righini is a globally recognized scientist and leader in glass-based photonics. Glass photonics is pervasive in wide-ranging applications of direct impact on society and drives the research in countless enabling technologies. Optical glasses are the cornerstone of photonic structures crucial for information engineering, biological and medical sciences, sensing, lightning, energy, and quantum technologies. The technological and scientific results obtained in the last 50 years have proven that photonics and glass science smartly cooperate to develop new physics, new devices, and new applications. This cross-disciplinary approach leads to “smart structures,” that address socio-economic challenges such as security, energy saving, efficient and clean industrial production, environmental protection, and fast and efficient communications. In this SI we want to celebrate the 80th birthday of Prof. Righini through a collection of robust papers offering a wide vision of the most recent achievements, as well as indicating the future perspectives in glass-based photonics.

Guest editors:

Executive Guest Editors
Dr. Maurizio Ferrari
Organization*: IFN-CNR, CSMFO Lab. and FBK Photonics Unit, Via alla Cascata 56/C, 38123 Povo (TN), Italy
Institutional Email Address*: maurizio.ferrari@ifn.cnr.it

Co-Guest Editors

Dr. John Ballato
Organization*: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, United States of America
Institutional Email Address*: jballat@clemson.edu

Dr. Luigi Sirleto
Organization*: Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, National Research Council (CNR), Napoli, Italy
Institutional Email Address*: luigi.sirleto@cnr.it

Special issue information:

We welcome you to submit your manuscript(s) at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Prof. Maurizio Ferrari via  maurizio.ferrari@ifn.cnr.it. 

Manuscript submission information:

Submission Deadline: 31st December 2024

To submit your manuscript please go to Optical Materials-OPTMAT (at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/optical-materials) and follow the procedures for manuscript submission. When prompted for 'Enter Manuscript Information' you can select our Special Issue Article type as ‘VSI: 80th birthday of Giancarlo C. Righini” at https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/om/default2.aspx. Author Guidelines and Manuscript Submission can be found at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/optical-materials/publish/
guide-for-authors.

Keywords:

    Glass photonics;
    Optical glasses;
    Optical fibers;
    Luminescent glasses;
    Nonlinear optics properties of glasses and devices;
    Glasses for environmental monitoring;
    Glasses for health and biology;
    Glasses for sensing;
    Glasses for Energy;
    Glasses for quantum technologies.

Special Issue on VI Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian Meeting on Physics of Ferroelectrics September 11 to 15, 2023 (VSI: PLU23-Czestochowa)
Submission Date: 2025-01-15

This special issue represents a collection of selected papers presented at the VI Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian Meeting on Physics of Ferroelectrics, held in Częstochowa, Poland, between 11 and 15 September, 2023. The papers are authored by leading experts in ferroelectricity and optical materials, both experimentally and theoretically. The chosen papers highlight deep interrelations between ferroelectricity and optics and show latest achievements and potential future developments in the fields.

Guest editors:

Executive Guest Editor

Prof. Michal Piasecki
Organization*: Professor and Head of the Theoretical Physics Department, Jan Dlugosz University, Al. Armii Krajowej 13/15, 42-201 Częstochowa, Poland
Institutional Email Address*: m.piasecki@ujd.edu.pl
Areas of Expertise*: Optical materials (phosphors, NLO) and properties, chalcogenides, halides, materials modeling

Co-Guest Editors

Prof. Yulian Vysochanskii
Organization*: Professor and Head of the Semiconductor Physics Department of Uzhhorod National University, Member of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Narodna Square, 3, 88000, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Institutional Email Address*: vysochanskii@gmail.com
Areas of Expertise*：Semiconductors, structural phase transitions, ferroelectrics, optical materials, halcogenides

Prof. Adam Sieradzki
Organization*: Professor and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Department of Experimental Physics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław
Institutional Email Address*: adam.sieradzki@pwr.edu.pl
Areas of Expertise*: optoelectronic properties, ferroelectricity, organic-inorganic hybrids, phase transitions

Prof. Mikhail Brik
Organization*: Professor at the Theoretical Physics Department, Jan Dlugosz University, Al. Armii Krajowej 13/15, 42-201 Częstochowa, Poland
Institutional Email Address*: m.brik@ujd.edu.pl
Areas of Expertise*: First-principles calculations, structural, electronic, optical properties of materials

Special issue information:

We welcome you to submit your manuscript(s) at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Prof. Michal Piasecki 
via m.piasecki@ujd.edu.pl.

Manuscript submission information:

Submission Deadline: 15-Jan-2025

To submit your manuscript please go to Optical Materials-OPTMAT (at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/optical-materials) and follow the procedures for manuscript submission. When prompted for 'Enter Manuscript Information' you can select our Special Issue Article type as ‘VSI: PLU23-Czestochowa” at https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/om/default2.aspx. Author Guidelines and Manuscript Submission can be found at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/optical-materials/publish/guide-for-authors.

Keywords:

    Optical properties of the ferroelectrics, 
    antiferroelectrics, 
    dielectrics, 
    multiferroics, 
    and liquid crystals, 
    Structural phase transitions, 
    magnetic phase transitions, 
    crystal structures – investigated by optical methods