ETTORE

MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

Workshop: Recent Developments in

Advanced Luminescent Materials
Erice, Sicily, Italy. July 25 – 31, 2018
Sponsors: Italian Ministry of University and Scientific-Technological Research, Sicilian Government, Boston College

Topics and Speakers

Rolindes Balda, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Bilbao, SPAIN Andries Meijerink, Utrecht University, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
Er-doped Oxysulfide Nanophosphors for Temperature Sensing Understanding Luminescence Quenching: Tale of a Dozen Quenching
Mechanisms
Marco Bettinelli, University of Verona, Verona, ITALY
Bologna Stone: from Alchemy to Persistent Luminescence Martin Nikl, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, CZECK
REPUBLIC
Georges Boulon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Variable Charge State of Fast Emitting Rare Earth Dopants: An
FRANCE Optimization Tool in Wide Band-Gap Oxide Scintillators
Spectroscopic Properties of Rare Earth Ion Doped 20Al(PO3)3-80LIF
Glasses as Fast Scintillators for Neutron Detection
Ana Maria Pires, Univ. Est. Paulista – UNESP, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Energy Transfer Mechanism and Concentration Quenching Effects in the
Emission Modulation of Ba2SiO4 Matrix Simultaneously Doped with Eu3+
John Collins, Wheaton College, Norton, MA USA
and Tb3+
Theory of Radiative Lifetime of an Activator Ion in the Presence of a
Metallic Surface
Marcus Pollnau, University of Surrey, UK
New Insight into Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission
Baldassare Di Bartolo, Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA, USA
Novel White-Light Emission in Solids
Cees Ronda,
Afterglow Mechanisms in Scintillators
Pieter Dorenbos, Delft University of Technology, Delft, THE
NETHERLANDS
Luminescence Quenching by Electron and Hole Ionization in the
Alok M. Srivastava, GE Global Research,Niskayuna, NY, USA
Lanthanides, the Transition Metals, and the S2-elements Development of Mn4+ based phosphors for LED

Joaquín Fernández , Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Lingdong Sun, Peking University, CHINA
SPAIN Engineering Lanthanide Nanoparticles towards Biophotonic Applications
Nd-based Stoichiometric Random Lasers: Performance and Applications
Wieslaw Strek, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research,
Wroclaw, POLAND
Marek Grinberg, Gdańsk University, Gdańsk, POLAND
Peculiar white light emission from matter – possible mechanisms and
Energetic Structure and Radiative Processes in Luminescence Materials
applications
by High Hydrostatic Pressure Spectroscopy

Hans Gudel, University of Bern, Bern, SWITZERLAND Rafael Valiente, University of Cantabria, Santander, SPAIN
Why We Should Care When Scientists are Cheating New Insight into Luminescent Materials: from C-dots to Fe3+ Halides

Malgorzata Gusik, University of Wrocław, Wroclaw, POLAND Brian M. Walsh, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Transparent Optical Ceramics Based on Rare Earth Ion-Doped Cubic Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Pr-doped Materials
Tungstate/Molybdate Matrices
Eugeniusz Zych, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, POLAND
May Pr3+ Offer a Breakthrough in Luminescence Thermometry?
Xiaogang Liu, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
The Search for High Efficiency Energy Conversion Nanocrystals: A
Personal Account

Purpose of the meeting

Research on luminescent materials is growing very quickly due to the emergence of new important applications (clean energy,
luminescent nano-powders, LED displays, thermo-luminescence, bio-medicine, new scintillators, hybrid luminescent materials, etc.)
requiring a detailed and precise understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the luminescence processes (excited state dynamics,
energy and electron transfer, non-radiative relaxation, radiative transition probabilities, energy flow, etc). For these reasons, the
interplay between applications, new experimental techniques and understanding of the fundamental processes is timely and important,
and will be the scope of the Workshop. In addition to pursuing the merely scientific goals, the meeting will aim at designing initiatives
that foster a closer collaboration between industrial and academic researchers and finding ways by which we may create a greater
awareness on the part of faculty advisors of the great potential of luminescence spectroscopy as a theme for scientific education of
graduate and undergraduate students.

The participants should plan to arrive the afternoon of July 25 and leave the morning of July 31, 2018. No financial assistance will be
available for any participant. Board and lodging for the period of the meeting will cost 750 euros, which the participants will pay to the
Ettore Majorana Center in Erice. The meeting is limited to invited participants.
Co-directors of the Course Director of the School EMFCSC President and Director
Marco Bettinelli and John Collins Baldassare Di Bartolo Antonino Zichichi