- Nanoscale optical materials and single nano-objects
- Thin films and low-dimensional systems
- Optical control and detection of quantum systems
- Phosphors: recent progress, new materials, and applications
- Radioluminescence, optically and thermally stimulated luminescence in solids
- Transition metal and rare earth compounds
- Hybrid and organic optical materials
- Novel fluorophores, optical materials, devices for biosensing, biomedical and environmental applications
- Experimental methods for characterizing optical materials
- Theory and modeling