Symposium EL04-Emerging Material Platforms and Approaches for Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metasurfaces

This symposium will address emerging topics of hybrid nanophotonics, including plasmonics, metaphotonics, 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 and nanophotonics promise the generation, processing, sensing, and detection of signals at the subwavelength scale with great potential in a wide range of fields, such as photovoltaics, optical communications, quantum information technology, lighting, biophotonics, sensing, photochemistry, and medicine. Two obstacles holding back fundamental advances and the broad application of plasmonic-based technologies originate from inherent material losses in constitutive plasmonic components and the lack of efficient tunability due to the fixed conductivity of plasmonic materials. The recent discovery of new plasmonic materials, metamaterials, as well as 2D materials and low-dimensional materials with low loss, tunable optical properties, and CMOS compatibility, can enable a breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, metasurfaces, and their applications.

Topics will include:

Nanophotonics, plasmonics and metasurfaces
Radiation engineering using plasmonics/nanophotonics
Alternative plasmonic materials; Epsilon-near-zero materials; Active plasmonics and metasurfaces
2D Photonics; All-dielectric metasurfaces
Topological photonic and parity-time symmetric materials; Ultrafast dynamics of plasmonic nanosystems
Biological and chemical sensing with plasmonics/nanophotonics
Quantum/Nonlinear plasmonics and metasurfaces
Photovoltaic applications and efficient light harvesting
Waveguides, devices and systems from plasmonics and metamaterials; Novel nanofabrication techniques
Plasmonic hot-carriers for photodetection and energy conversion; Thermal plasmonics
Advanced nanophotonic design strategies: machine learning, topological optimizations, inverse design, and new simulation methods

Invited Speakers:

Amit Agrawal (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Andrea Alù (The City College of New York, USA)
Harry Atwater (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Koray Aydin (Northwestern University, USA)
Alexandra Boltasseva (Purdue University, USA)
Igal Brener (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Mark Brongersma (Stanford University, USA)
Hui Cao (Yale University, USA)
Federico Capasso (Harvard University, USA)
Shi-Wei Chu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Jennifer Dionne (Stanford University, USA)
Ortwin Hess (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Masanobu Iwanaga (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
Min Seok Jang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
Deep Jariwala (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Arseniy Kuznetsov (Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore)
Uriel Levy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Zhaowei Liu (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Peter Nordlander (Rice University, USA)
Teri Odom (Northwestern University, USA)
Lisa Poulikakos (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Vladimir M. Shalaev (Purdue University, USA)
Maxim Shcherbakov (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Gennady Shvets (Cornell University, USA)
Jason Valentine (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Jorik van de Groep (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Mengjie Yu (University of Southern California, USA)