ABSTRACT The precipitation of crystalline phases in glass matrix leads to the formation of glass‐ceramics (GCs) with modified physical and chemical properties. Besides noble metal nanocrystals, most crystalline phase grown within the glass matrix involving the solid‐state reaction between the network formers or modifiers are dielectric and insulating. Here, we discuss a class of GC containing non‐noble metal oxides and non‐oxide crystals containing abundance of charge carriers. Notably, the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) associated with the charge carriers contributes to strong and broadband absorption in the infrared spectral region with the resonance energy dependent on the carrier concentration. Along with an overview of the developed plasmonic GC systems incorporating different plasmonic nanoparticles, we focus our discussion on their optical properties and the recent advances in the exploration of such plasmonic GC for optics and nonlinear photonic applications. This review is finalized by a short summary of current research directions and challenges in the development and applications of GC based on non‐noble metal plasmonic nanoparticles.
Wan et al. (Fri,) studied this question.