Symposium F.NM01-Nanophotonics—Emerging Hybrid Platforms, Materials and Functions

This symposium addresses emerging material challenges in hybrid nanophotonic platforms including 2D materials and metamaterials, plasmonics, quantum materials, metasurfaces, optical and neuromorphic computing, and AI driven photonic materials discovery with a goal of fostering the development of photonic devices and enabling novel technology applications. The symposium overviews recent cutting-edge advances in photonic materials design, light-materials interaction at the nanoscale, and emerging device platforms. The symposium covers fundamental materials science, promising applications, and novel fabrication techniques.

Recent advances in nanophotonics promise novel and more efficient ways of light generation, energy harvesting, signal processing, detection, and sensing at the nanometer scale offering great potential in a wide range of fields, including photovoltaics, optical communications, quantum information processing, biophotonics, sensing, chemistry, and medicine. Further progress in these fields necessitates novel material platforms for more efficient control of light at the nanoscale with lower loss, enhanced confinement, higher efficiency, increased speed, tunability, and lower energy. The recent discoveries of low loss plasmonic materials, nanolayered and two-dimensional materials, materials with tunable optical properties, and materials compatible with semiconductor fabrication processes can enable breakthrough solutions for nanoscale photonics and metamaterials science and for their applications.

Topics will include:

2D metaphotonic material platforms and devices
Quantum and coherent nanophotonic systems
Neuromorphic and all-optical computing with light–Materials challenges
Metasurfaces and nanoantennas - passive, active, and nonlinear
Resonant, near-zero and highly dispersive metamaterials
Inverse design and AI driven photonic materials and systems
Nitrides, oxides, highly doped semiconductors, and noble metal alloys
Two-dimensional materials–Graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and beyond
Dynamically switchable and phase change materials
Surface phonon polaritons, mid-infrared and terahertz applications
Optoelectronic and photovoltaic systems and applications

Invited Speakers:

Amir Arbabi (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Harry Atwater (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Igal Brener (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Dmitry Chigrin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Jennifer Dionne (Stanford University, USA)
Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Nicholas Fang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Andrei Faraon (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Kate Fountaine (Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA)
Jesse Frantz (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Kai-Mei Fu (University of Washington, USA)
Naomi Halas (Rice University, USA)
Boubakar Kante (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Nataniel Kinsey (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Stephanie Law (University of Delaware, USA)
Howard Lee (Baylor University, USA)
Esther Alarcón Llado (AMOLF, Netherlands)
Arka Majumdar (University of Washington, USA)
Alejandro Manjavacas (University of New Mexico, USA)
Rajesh Menon (University of Utah, USA)
Gururaj Naik (Rice University, USA)
Svetlana Neretina (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Alexey Nikitin (Donostia International Physics Center, Spain)
Albert Polman (FOM Institute AMOLF, Netherlands)
Volker Sorger (George Washington University, USA)
Din Ping Tsai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Augustine Urbas (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Virginia Wheeler (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Rachel Won (Nature Photonics, United Kingdom)
Nai Chang Yeh (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Philip Hon

Northrop Grumman Corporation

NG Next

USA

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Hatice Altug

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Institute of Bioengineering

Switzerland

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Artur Davoyan

University of California, Los Angeles

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

USA

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Topics

devices holography laser luminescence nanostructure optical optical properties optoelectronic photovoltaic semiconducting