Call for Papers

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Metamaterials and metasurfaces are artificial composite materials (3D) and surfaces (2D) that through structural design enable exotic properties not easily obtainable or unavailable in nature. Metamaterials have achieved remarkable progress in the optical region by using 2D and 3D nanostructures, and the concept has been rapidly expanded to other fields including mechanics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Moreover, currently we are witnessing the advances in nanoscale optics, photonics and materials with metasurfaces-driven flat optics, which is going from science to technology transition. This symposium aims at bringing together researchers with diverse backgrounds from physics, materials science, engineering, and manufacturing, to cover the fundamental principles and technological applications of metasurfaces and plasmonics, spanning from imaging/display system, bio/chemical sensing, photovoltaics, and energy harvesting devices, to quantum information processing, medical devices, communication system, and data storage.

Topics will include:

• Metasurfaces, metamaterials, and plasmonics
• Photonics with two-dimensional materials
• Materials with epsilon-near-zero and hyperbolic dispersion properties
• Active and multifunctional plasmonics, nanophotonics, metamaterials, metasurfaces
• Time-varying and quantum metasurfaces and its applications
• Topological photonic and parity-time symmetric materials and metasurfaces
• Ultrafast and nonlinear effects in metamaterials and plasmonics
• Terahertz, photovoltaic, and thermal devices and applications
• Advanced nanophotonic design strategies including machine learning, topological optimizations, and inverse design
• Optical computing and analog processing enabled by functional metasurfaces
• Novel imaging technologies with metasurfaces and plasmonics

• A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.

Invited Speakers:

• Andrea Alù (The City University of New York, USA)
• Alexandra Boltasseva (Purdue University, USA)
• Mark Brongersma (Stanford University, USA)
• Wenshan Cai (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Federico Capasso (Harvard University, USA)
• Debashis Chanda (University of Central Florida, USA)
• Artur Davoyan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Jennifer Dionne (Stanford University, USA)
• Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Andrei Faraon (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Shangjr Gwo (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• Yao-Wei Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
• Min Seok Jang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Yuri Kivshar (The Australian National University, Australia)
• Seungwoo Lee (Korea University, Republic of Korea)
• Yu-Jung Yuri Lu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• Stefen Maier (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
• Arka Majumdar (University of Washington, USA)
• Jeremy Munday (University of California, Davis, USA)
• Ki Tae Nam (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
• Teri Odom (Northwestern University, USA)
• Junghyun Park (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Younggeun Roh (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Vladimir M. Shalaev (Purdue University, USA)
• Giulia Tagliabue (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Din-Ping Tsai (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
• Joel Yang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
• Shuang Zhang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Symposium Organizers