Symposium ED10-Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications

This symposium aims at addressing critical needs in the emerging fields of hybrid integrated nanophotonics including plasmonics and plasmonic metamaterials to overcome existing limitations hindering the development of practical plasmonic devices. The key focus of the symposium is on novel approaches and material platforms including new design concepts, fabrication techniques and materials for practical plasmonics-based applications. Plasmonics and metamaterials are seen as promising fields that can enable merging of two major technologies, namely nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. Plasmonics promises the generation, processing, transmission, sensing and detection of signals at the nanometer scale at optical frequencies with potential applications in a wide range of fields, including optical communications, quantum information processing, biophotonics, sensing, chemistry and medicine. One of the obstacles, still limiting the wide spread of plasmonic-based technologies, originates from inherent material losses in constitutive plasmonic components. The recent discovery of new plasmonic materials that offer low loss and tunability in their optical properties as well as semiconductor compatibility can enable a breakthrough in the field of nanoscale photonics, optical metamaterials and their applications. This symposium seeks to provide a general overview of recent advances in new design concepts and plasmonic material platforms, including fabrication techniques and promising applications enabled by the new developments. Contributions focusing on challenges and limitations of various plasmonic approaches are also encouraged.

Topics will include:

Designing material properties to decrease optical losses
Highly doped semiconductors for plasmonics
Graphene, boron nitride, and van der Waals heterostructures
All-dielectric metamaterials and metasurfaces
Materials and metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion
Phase-change and dynamically switchable plasmonic materials
Plasmonic sensing and bio-medical applications
Plasmonic nanoantenna and efficient light harvesting
Controlling gain and loss: Active plasmonic devices
Surface phonon polaritons and mid-infrared applications
Near-field optical imaging and focusing
Emerging plasmonic materials, refractory plasmonics, and noble metal alloys
Advanced fabrication techniques for improving plasmonic properties
Laser fabrication and processing: writing, printing, and patterning
Transparent conductive oxides and materials with near-zero permittivity
Quantum phenomena and realization of quantum information processing
Ultrafast and nonlinear effects in metamaterials and plasmonics

Invited Speakers:

ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _0 (Georgia State University, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _1 (University of California, San Diego, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _2 (Ottawa University, Canada)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _3 (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _4 (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _5 (Stanford University, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _6 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _7 (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _8 (Rice University, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _9 (Australian National University, Australia)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _10 (Data Storage Institute, A*STAR, Singapore)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _11 (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _12 (University of Minnesota, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _13 (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _14 (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _15 (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _16 (Northwestern University, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _17 (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _18 (Purdue University, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _19 (The University of Texas, USA)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _20 (King's College London, United Kingdom)
ED10_Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials—Novel Approaches Towards Practical Applications _21 (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)