The symposium will explore emerging topics in plasmonics, nanophotonics, metamaterials, and metasurfaces to overcome limitations in practical photonic device development. It aims to provide an overview of recent advancements in design concepts, material platforms, fabrication techniques, and their promising applications. Novel approaches in plasmonics and metasurfaces offer great potential for generating, processing, sensing, and detecting signals at the nanometer scale in diverse fields such as photovoltaics, optical communications, quantum information processing, bioimaging, lighting, sensing, chemistry, and medicine. The recent discovery of new plasmonic materials, layered materials, and two-dimensional materials with desirable properties like low loss, tunable optics, and CMOS compatibility can pave the way for breakthroughs in nanophotonics, optical metamaterials, and their applications. The symposium also focuses on exploring novel nonlinear and quantum phenomena, as well as advanced designs utilizing machine learning strategies and new simulation methods for metasurfaces, metamaterials, and plasmonic materials/devices.
As part of Symposium EL07, a Memorial Session will be held for Richard M. Osgood, Jr., who was a member of the MRS Council in the 1980s, a well-known researcher in plasmonics, Si photonics, and laser-induced photochemical reactions, and a contributor to MRS. Professor Osgood passed away unexpectedly in late 2023. Papers in areas consistent with Symposium EL07’s Call for Papers and/or related to Prof. Osgood’s research areas will be considered.
Symposium Organizers
Yu-Jung Lu
Academia Sinica
Research Center for Applied Sciences
Taiwan
Viktoriia Babicheva
The University of New Mexico
Electrical and Computer Engineering
USA
Howard Ho Wai Lee
University of California, Irvine
Department of Physics and Astronomy
USA
Melissa Li
California Institute of Technology
USA