Symposium NM09-Novel Approaches and Material Platforms for Plasmonics and Metamaterials

This symposium addresses emerging topics of hybrid nanophotonics including plasmonics, metamaterials, metasurfaces, and two-dimensional materials to overcome existing limitations that prevent the development of practical photonic devices. The symposium seeks to provide a general overview of recent advances in new design concepts and material platforms, including fabrication techniques and promising applications enabled by the new developments.

Novel approaches in plasmonics promise the generation, processing, sensing, and detection of signals at the nanometer scale with great potential in a wide range of fields, including photovoltaics, optical communications, quantum information processing, biophotonics, sensing, chemistry, and medicine. One of the obstacles, still limiting the broad application of plasmonic-based technologies, originates from inherent material losses in constitutive plasmonic components. The recent discovery of new plasmonic materials as well as nanolayered and two-dimensional materials with low loss, tunability of their optical properties and semiconductor compatibility can enable a breakthrough in the field of nanoscale photonics, optical metamaterials, and their applications.

Topics will include:

Photovoltaic applications and efficient light harvesting
Platforms for optoelectronics and quantum information processing
Plasmonic sensing
Metasurfaces and nanoantenna
Fabrication techniques for improving plasmonic properties
Designing material properties to decrease optical losses
Emerging plasmonic materials
Nitrides, oxides, and highly doped semiconductors for plasmonics
Noble metal alloys
Two-dimensional materials: graphene and beyond
Transition metal dichalcogenides
Dynamically switchable plasmonic materials
Phase change materials
Materials with near-zero permittivity and hyperbolic dispersion
All-dielectric metamaterials
Ultrafast and nonlinear effects in metamaterials and plasmonics
Surface phonon polaritons, mid-infrared and terahertz applications
Near-field optical imaging and focusing

Invited Speakers:

Igal Brener (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Filippo Capolino (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Alberto G. Curto (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri (Donostia International Physics Center, Spain)
Mikhail Lapine (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Gennady Shvets (Cornell University, USA)
Costas M. Soukoulis (Iowa State University, USA)
Augustine Urbas (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Georg von Freymann (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Cherie Kagan (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Andrea Alù (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Nicolas Bonod (Institut Fresnel, France)
Svetlana Boriskina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Dmitry Chigrin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Jennifer Dionne (Stanford University, USA)
Zubin Jacob (Purdue University, USA)
Stephanie Law (University of Delaware, USA)
Marina S. Leite (University of Maryland, USA)
Dragomir Neshev (Australian National University, Australia)
Albert Polman (FOM Institute AMOLF, Netherlands)
P. James Schuck (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Blake Simpkins (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Jason Valentine (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Alexey Yamilov (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Alexandra Boltasseva

Purdue University

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center

USA

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Joshua Caldwell

Vanderbilt University

Mechanical Engineering Department

USA

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Isabelle Staude

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Institute of Applied Physics and Abbe Center of Photonics

Germany

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Topics

alloy ceramic crystalline graphene metal nitride optical optoelectronic oxide photovoltaic