SYMPOSIUM H - Optoelectronics II: Molecular Photonics: from Macroscopic to Nanoscopic Applications

to be held jointly with the European Optical Society (EOS) Conference on Nonlinear Materials

The fast development of Molecular Photonics is driven by the urgent need for low –cost, highly performant technologies for optical signal processing: electroluminescent sources, photovoltaic solar cells, nonlinear devices for high speed optical communications, plastic optical fibers and waveguides, liquid crystal displays.... Downsizing devices at submicronic scales is being increasingly considered as a major avenue to enhance figures of merit via quantum size effects so as to go beyond the limits of currently used silicon-based technologies. Various molecular nanostructures (single molecules for sensors and biology, nanotubes and fullerenes, self-assemblies) are being now elaborated, manipulated and characterized in view of numerous applications ranging from high density information storage and processing to sensors for biological investigations. Organization of these nanoscale objects at the micron size to allow for waveguiding, microcavity and photonic bandgap structures is furthermore essential and requires the development of adequate technology, whereby polymers have been shown to provide considerable assets based on their structural and functional flexibility.

Scope and Topics

- Nonlinear optical materials

- Nonlinear and electro-optic devices for optical communications

- Plastic optical fibers and waveguides

- Polymer-based integrated optics : passive and active devices, interconnects and low loss interfaces. Hybrid integration.

- Electroluminescent diodes . Integration of drive FET transistor and luminescent devices

- Photovoltaic solar cells

- Liquid crystals for displays

- Optical limitation

- Polymer-based photonic bandgap structures

- Photochromic materials

- Optically-induced molecular motion and orientation

- Single molecule investigations : manipulation of nano-objects, perspectives in high density storage, single photon emission and biology

- Nanotubes and fullerenes

- Control of self-assembled structures down to the nanoscale

 

Organizing Committee:

F. Michelotti (Rome, Italy), G. Rivoire (Angers, France), G. Leising (Graz, Austria), T. Ebbesen (Strasbourg, France)

Scientific Committee:

F. Agullo-Lopez (Universita Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), Z. Bao (Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, USA), M. Bertolotti (University of Rome " La Sapienza " , Italy), W. Blau (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), D. Bradley (University of Sheffield, UK), D. Davidov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), T. Ebbesen (University of Strasbourg, France), F. Garnier (CNRS Thiais, France), I.C. Khoo, (Penn State University, USA), I. Ledoux-Rak (ENS Cachan, France), G. Leising (Graz, Austria), M. Orrit (Université de Bordeaux, France), R.J. Silbey (MIT, Cambridge, USA), C. Weder (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), J. Zyss (ENS Cachan, France )

Invited speakers:

• P. F. Barbara (Texas University , USA) : " Single Molecule Spectroscopy of the Conjugated Polymer MEH-PPV "
• R.K. Chang (Yale University, USA) : " Non-circular Microdisks as High-Q Cavities "
• L.R. Dalton (University of Washington, USA) : " Realization of Sub 1-V Polymeric EO Modulators through Systematic Definition of Material Structure/Function Relationships "
• P. Damman (Mons University, Belgium) : " Oriented crystallization of NLO organic materials "
• V. DiGiorgio (Pavia University, Italy)
• A. Dodabalapur (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA ) : " New low cost printing and molding methods for fabricating organic optoelectronic devices "
• N.V. Gaponenko (Minsk University , Belarus) : " Sol-gel derived films in mesoporous matrices: porous silicon, anodic alumina and artificial opals"
• S. Gilat (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA)
• N.C. Greenham (Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, UK)
• A. Ibanez (Université de Grenoble, France)
• D.G. Lidzey (Sheffield University, UK)
• R.M. Metzger (Alabama University, USA) : " Rectification By A Single Molecule "
• S. Mukamel (Rochester University, USA) : " Coherence Sizes in the Optical Response of Single Molecules, Dendrimers and Chromophore Aggregates "
• K. Mullen (Max-Planck Institut, Mainz, Germany)
• D. Neher (Potsdam University,Germany) : " Light-Emitting Diodes based on Liquid-Crystalline Polyfluorenes "
• J-M. Nunzi (CEA Saclay, France)
• P.S. Ramanujam (Risø Laboratory, Denmark) : " Physics and Technology of Optical Storagein Polymer Thin Films "
• S.G. Romanov (Wuppertal University, Germany)
• E. Toussaere (LPQM, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France) : "Optical and electrical processing of new oriented electrooptic polymer devices"
• M. Warenghem (Université de Lens, France)
• C.S. Yoon (KAIST, Taejon, Korea) : " Application of molecular recognition concept in the growth of organic nonlinear optical crystals"

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