Editors’ choice for the thematic issue “Luminescence and Laser Physics” is the paper entitled “Formation of the Intrinsic Absorption Edge in Nanostructured Hafnium Dioxide Powder” by A. O. Shilov, A. S. Vokhmintsev, A. M. A. Henaish, and I. A. Weinstein (Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics, 2022, Volume 86, Issue 7, P. 771-774).