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Symposium L: Functional Plasmonics and Nanophotonics

Symposium L: Functional Plasmonics and Nanophotonics Image

SYMPOSIUM L

Functional Plasmonics and Nanophotonics
March 24 - 27, 2008
Chairs
Stefan Maier     Imperial College London
Peter Nordlander     Rice University
Satoshi Kawata     Osaka University and RIKEN


* Invited paper

TUTORIAL
Nanoplasmonics
Monday, March 24, 2008
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 2012 (Moscone West)


SESSION L1: Propagation and Modulation I
Chair: Stefan Maier
Tuesday Morning, March 25, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM *L1.1
Femtosecond Control of Plasmon Propagation. Nikolay Zheludev1, Kevin MacDonald1, Zsolt Samson1 and Mark Stockman2; 1Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.

9:00 AM L1.2
Propagation and Out-coupling of Electron-beam Excited Surface Plasmons on Gold. Robert E Peale1, Justin Cleary1, Olena Lopatiuk Tirpak1, Samantha Santos1, David Clark1, John Henderson1, Leonid Chernyak1, Thomas Andrew Winningham1, Enrique Delbarco1, Helge Heinrich1 and Walter Buchwald2; 1Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida; 2Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Lab, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts.

9:15 AM L1.3
PlasMOSter: A Si MOS Field Effect Plasmonic Modulator. Jennifer A. Dionne, Kenneth Diest and Harry A. Atwater; Applied Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, California.

9:30 AM L1.4
All-Optical Active Plasmonics Based on Ordered Au Nanodisk Array Embedded in Photoresponsive Liquid. Yue Bing Zheng, Vincent K. S. Hsiao and Tony Jun Huang; Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

9:45 AM L1.5
Role of Coherence and Phase of Propagating Surface Plasmons in the Optical Transmission of Periodic and Aperiodic Subwavelength Hole Arrays. Domenico Pacifici1, Henri J Lezec1,2, Luke A Sweatlock1 and Harry A Atwater1; 1Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

10:00 AM BREAK

SESSION L2: Antennae & Emitters
Chairs: Stefan Maier and Peter Nordlander
Tuesday Morning, March 25, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

10:30 AM L2.1
Optimization of Plasmonic Nano-Antennas. Ibrahim Kursat Sendur, Orkun Karabasoglu, Eray Baran and Gullu Kiziltas; Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.

10:45 AM L2.2
Resonant Properties of Metallic Nanowire Antennas. Edward S Barnard, Anu Chandran, Justin S White and Mark L Brongersma; Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

11:00 AM L2.3
Plasmon Particle Arrays for Localizing, Guiding and Shaping a Beam of Optical Energy. Rene de Waele1,2, A. Femius Koenderink1, Jord C. Prangsma1 and Albert Polman1; 1Center for Nanophotonics, FOM AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2Applied Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, California.

11:15 AM L2.4
Multiple Coupled Cluster Plasmonic Nanoantennae Design. Giovanni Pellegrini, Giovanni Mattei and Paolo Mazzoldi; Physics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

11:30 AM L2.5
Broadband Emission Enhancement in Metal-Dielectric-Metal Plasmon Waveguide Structures. Young Chul Jun, Justin White and Mark Brongersma; Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

SESSION L3: Coupling & Focusing
Chair: Richard Haglund
Tuesday Afternoon, March 25, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *L3.1
Nano-Antennas and Resonators Utilizing Slow Surface Plasmons. Sergey I Bozhevolnyi, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, Aalborg Øst, Denmark.

2:00 PM L3.2
Design and Optimization of Incoupling Structures for Ultrathin Plasmonic Solar Cells. Vivian E. Ferry1, Luke A. Sweatlock1, Domenico Pacifici1, Kylie Catchpole2, Ewold Verhagen2, Albert Polman2 and Harry A. Atwater1; 1Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2FOM Institute-AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2:15 PM L3.3
Electromagnetic Coupling and Field Localization in Deterministic Aperiodic Palsmonic Structures. Luca Dal Negro1, Ashwin Gopinath1, Ning-Ning Feng1 and Bjoern Reinhard2; 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Chemistry Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

2:30 PM L3.4
Engineering Surface Plasmons Through Computer Simulation. Daniel Peter Ceperley and Andrew R Neureuther; Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dept., University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

2:45 PM BREAK

SESSION L4: Fabrication of tunable plasmonic structures
Chair: Domenic Pacifici
Tuesday Afternoon, March 25, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

3:15 PM L4.1
Fabrication of Nano-Structured Gold Arrays by Guided Self-assembly for Plasmonics. Xiaoli Li1, Cornelis H. de Groot1, Clelia A. Milhano2, Philip N. Bartlett2, Robin M. Cole3 and Jeremy J. Baumberg3; 1School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; 2School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; 3NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Camrbidge, Cambridges, United Kingdom.

3:30 PM L4.2
Self-assembled Colloidal Gold Nanoparticle Superlattices with Tunable Plasmonic Properties. Chi-Fan Chen1, Shien-Der Tzeng2, Hung-Ying Chen1, Kuan-Jiuh Lin2 and Shangjr Gwo1; 1Institute of Nanoengineering and Microsystem and Department of Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 2Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.

3:45 PM L4.3
Two-photon Initiators with High Initiating Efficiency for Fabrication of Nanophotonic Devices. Nobuyuki Takeyasu1, Takuo Tanaka1,2, Jin-Feng Xing3, Xuan-Ming Duan4 and Satoshi Kawata1,5,6; 1Nanophotonics Lab., RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan; 2PRESTO, JST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan; 3Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China; 4Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 5Applied Physics, Osaka Univ., Suita, Osaka, Japan; 6CREST, JST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan.

4:00 PM L4.4
On the Surface Plasmon Resonance Properties of Self-Assembled Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nano Materials. Dong Ha Kim, Division of Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.

4:15 PM L4.5
Incident Angle-Dependent Redshifts of Surface Plasmon Resonance in Long-Range Coupled Au Nanostructure Arrays. Yue Bing Zheng, Wei Yan, Thomas R. Walker and Tony Jun Huang; Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

4:30 PM *L4.6
Designer Plasmonic Structures and Assemblies with Tunable Optical Properties. Jennifer Shumaker-Parry, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

SESSION L5: Applications & Devices
Chair: Peter Nordlander
Wednesday Morning, March 26, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM L5.1
Demagnifing Super Resolution Imaging Optics with Subwavelength Surface Plasmon Structures. Xiangang Luo, Changtao Wang and Chunlei Du; State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies for Microfabrication, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China.

8:45 AM L5.2
Super Resolution Imaging with Evanescent Waves Amplification and Propagation in Multi Metallodielectric Films. Changtao Wang, Chunlei Du and Xiangang Luo; State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies for Microfabrication, institute of electronics and optics, Chengdu, China.

9:00 AM L5.3
Aperiodic Metallodielectric Stacks for Thermophotovoltaic and Thermal Solar Applications. Olivier Pincon, Mukul Agrawal and Peter Peumans; Stanford University, Stanford, California.

9:15 AM L5.4
Near-Field Localization with Surface Plasmon Resonant Nano-Apertures for Efficient, High-Speed Photodetectors. Justin White1, Edward S Barnard1, Georgios Veronis2, Shanhui Fan2 and Mark L Brongersma1; 1Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

9:30 AM L5.5
Full-Color Electro-Optic Resonator-Based Plasmonic Display. Kenneth Diest1,2, Jennifer A Dionne2, Matthew J Czubakowski2, Melissa J Archer3,2, Young-Bae J Park2 and Harry A Atwater2,1; 1Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 3Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

9:45 AM BREAK

SESSION L6: Propagation & Modulation II
Chair: Anatoly Zayats
Wednesday Morning, March 26, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

10:15 AM *L6.1
Modulating Plasmonic Functionality in Composite Nanostructures using a Structural Phase Transition. Richard Haglund1, Charles Adams1, Eugene Donev1, Leonard Feldman1,2, Davon Ferrara1, René Lopez3, Jae-Yong Suh1 and Kevin Tetz1; 1Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; 3Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

10:45 AM L6.2
Surface Plasmons at Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces. Hanwei Gao1, Joel Henzie2 and Teri W Odom2,1; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

11:00 AM L6.3
Anomalous Dispersion, Negative Indices, and Localized Resonances in Plasmon Corrals. Jennifer A. Dionne1, Philip Munoz1, Kenneth Diest1, Stanley Burgos1, Harry Atwater1, Henri Lezec2, Ewold Verhagen3, Martin Kuttge3 and Albert Polman3; 1Applied Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, California; 2NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 3Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

11:15 AM L6.4
Silicon-compatible Ultra-long-range Surface Plasmon Modes. Reuben T. Collins1, Charles G. Durfee1, Thomas E. Furtak1, Ali Sabbah1, Russell E. Hollingsworth2 and P. David Flammer1; 1Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado; 2ITN Energy Systems, Inc., Littleton, Colorado.

11:30 AM *L6.5
Surface-Plasmon Polaritons Launched by Subwavelength Slits and Grooves: Transmission Enhancement, Sensing, Switching, and Negative Refraction. Henri J. Lezec1,2, Domenico Pacifici2, Jennifer A. Dionne2, Stanley P. Burgos2, Luke A. Sweatlock2, Matthew J. Dicken2, Babak Hassibi2, Jose Luis Riechmann2, Raviv Perahia2, Oskar J. Painter2, Harry A. Atwater2 and John Weiner3,4; 1Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 2California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 3IRSAMC/LCAR, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France; 4IFSC/CePOF, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos SP, Brazil.

SESSION L7: Poster Session
Chair: Stefan Maier
Wednesday Afternoon, March 26, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Exhibit Hall (Moscone West)

L7.1
Abstract Withdrawn

L7.2
Controlling the Surface Morphologies of Gold Nanoshells for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Study. Tao Fu1,2, Hai-Yan Qin1,2, Wenjiang Li1,2 and Sailing He1,2; 1Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China; 2JORCEP (Joint Research of Photonics of the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Zhejiang University), Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

L7.3
Plasmon Resonant Propagation through Metal-Dielectric Periodic Nanostructures. M. Joseph Roberts, Simin Feng and Andrew Guenthner; Research Department, US Navy NAVAIR NAWCWD, China Lake, California.

L7.4
Metal Nanoparticle-Decorated Nanocanal Arrays as Three-Dimensional Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Substrates. Hyunhyub Ko and Vladimir Tsukruk; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

L7.5
Porphyrin Assisted Photocatalytic Seeding Synthesis of Noble Metal Nanoshells. Haorong Wang1,2, Yujiang Song1 and John A Shelnutt1,3; 1Advanced Material Labs, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 3Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

L7.6
Single Particle Microscopy and Extinction Spectra of Gold Nanooctahedra. Kevin L Shuford1, Yong Nam Kim3, Cuncheng Li3, Sung Oh Cho3, Meredith M. Cable2, Charles S. Feigerle2, Kent A. Meyer1, William B. Whitten1 and Robert W. Shaw1; 1Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; 3Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.

L7.7
The Effect of Surface Texture and Geometry on Spoof Surface Plasmon Dispersion. Shun-Hui Yang and Prabhakar Bandaru; MAE, UC-San Diego, La Jolla, California.

L7.8
Experiments and Simulations of Infrared Transmission by Transverse Magnetic Mode through Au Gratings on Silicon with Various Air-slot Widths over the Period. Yan-Ru Chen and Chieh Hsiung Kuan; National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

L7.9
Sensing Small Distances using Resonant Coupling Between Nanoparticles and Conductive Films. Ryan Toler Hill1, Jack J. Mock2, Stefan Zauscher3, David R. Smith2 and Ashutosh Chilkoti1; 1Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; 2Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; 3Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

L7.10
Controlled Trapping of Colloidal Particles at Polymeric Film Surface for Nanoscopic Patterning of Ordered Voids, Metal Caps and Proteins. Se Gyu Jang1, Dae-Geun Choi2, Chul-Joon Heo1, Su-Yeon Lee1 and Seung-Man Yang1; 1KAIST, Dae-jeon, South Korea; 2KIMM, Dae-jeon, South Korea.

L7.11
Raman Scattering in Ordered Porous Silver Films Made Using Hierarchical and Anisometric Building Blocks. Poorna Praveen Rajendran, Christopher Umbach and Chekesha M. Liddell; Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

L7.12
Active Plasmonic Devices via Barium Titanate Thin Film Integration on Silicon. Matthew J. Dicken1, Henri J. Lezec1,2, Luke A. Sweatlock1, Domenico Pacifici1 and Harry A. Atwater1; 1Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

L7.13
Towards a Single-Layer Isotropic Negative-Index Metamaterial Operational in the Visible Spectrum. Stanley Burgos1, Raviv Perahia1, Jennifer Dionne1, Oskar Painter1, Henri Lezec1,2 and Harry Atwater1; 1Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

L7.14
Theoretical and Experimental Studies of the Optical Properties of One-dimensional Metallic Gratings. Wai Chun Luk, Jia Li, Haiping Yin, Daniel H.C. Ong and Pak-Ming Hui; Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

L7.15
Optical Transmission Through Finite Arrays of Subwavelength Slits. Domenico Pacifici1, Henri J Lezec1,2, Luke A Sweatlock1, John Weiner1 and Harry A Atwater3,4; 1Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 3IRSAMC/LCAR, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France; 4IFSC/CePOF, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos SP, Brazil.

L7.16
Anisotropic Silver Nanoparticles Mediated Coherent Feedback Random Lasing in Weakly Scattering Regime. Xiangeng Meng1, Koji Fujita1,2, Shunsuke Murai1 and Katsuhisa Tanaka1; 1Material Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan.

L7.17
Subwavelength Plasmonic Solitons. Yongmin Liu, Guy Bartal, Dentcho A Genov and Xiang Zhang; NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), 5130 Etcheverry Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California.

L7.18
Terahertz Metamaterials on Thin Silicon Nitride Membranes. Xomalin G. Peralta1, Christian L. Arrington2, John D. Williams2, Igal Brener1, Andrew Strikwerda5, Richard D. Averitt5, Willie Padilla4 and John O'Hara3; 1Applied Photonic Microsystems, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Photonic Microsystems Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 3Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; 4Physics, Boston College, Chetnut Hill, Massachusetts; 5Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

L7.19
Direct Observation of Negative Refraction in 3D Photonic Crystals in Visible. Ali E Aliev, Anvar A Zakhidov and Ray H Baughman; NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas.

L7.20
Abstract Withdrawn


SESSION L8: Nanocavities
Chair: Nikolay Zheludev
Wednesday Afternoon, March 26, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

2:00 PM L8.1
Localized Field Enhancements in Fractal Shaped Periodic Metal Nanostructures. Jonas Beermann1, Ilya P. Radko1, Andrey B. Evlyukhin2, Alexandra Boltasseva3 and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi1; 1Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, Aalborg Øst, Denmark; 2Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Vladimir State University, Vladimir, Russian Federation; 3Department of Communications, Optics & Materials, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.

2:15 PM L8.2
Plasmonic Core-Shell Nanowire Resonators for Molecular Sensing Applications. Carrie E Hofmann1, Anna M Hiszpanski1, Stanley Burgos1, Michael A Filler1, Brendan M Kayes1, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo2 and Harry A Atwater1; 1Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Instituto de Optica, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

2:30 PM L8.3
Plasmon-Mediated Energy Exchange in Quantum Dots Embedded in a Metallic Nanocavity. Manuel J Romero, Jao van de Lagemaat, Garry Rumbles and Mowafak M Al-Jassim; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.

2:45 PM L8.4
High Quality Factor Plasmonic Nano-cavities: Experimental and Theoretical Analysis. Rupert F. Oulton, Volker J. Sorger, Kristy C. Vernon, David F. P. Pile and Xiang Zhang; NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

3:00 PM L8.5
Plasmon Resonance At Low Temperature. Mingzhao Liu1, Philippe Guyot-Sionnest1 and Stephen K. Gray2; 1James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 2Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois.

3:15 PM BREAK

SESSION L9: Nanostructures for Sensing I
Chair: Peter Nordlander
Wednesday Afternoon, March 26, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

3:45 PM *L9.1
Nanoplasmonic Coupling Effects and Their Application. Mikael Kall, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.

4:15 PM L9.2
Selective Functionalization and Spectral Identification of Gold Nanopyramids. Warefta Hasan1, Jeunghoon Lee1 and Teri Wang Odom1,2; 1Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

4:30 PM L9.3
Refractive Index Sensing and Tunable Color from Microscale Arrays of Nanoscale Holes. Min Hyung Lee1, Hanwei Gao2 and Teri W. Odom1,2; 1Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

4:45 PM L9.4
Highly Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate Based on the Large Area Two-dimensional Plasmonic Nanobottle Arrays. Jia Li, Hei Iu, Wai-chun Luk, Jones T. K. Wan and Daniel H.C. Ong; Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

SESSION L10: Nanostructures for Sensing II
Chair: Jonas Beerman
Thursday Morning, March 27, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

EARLY START

8:00 AM *L10.1
On the Role of Halide Ions on SERS Activation of R6G Adsorbed on Ag Nanoparticles. Masayuki Futamata1 and Yoshihiro Maruyama2; 1AIST, Tsukuba, Japan; 2Hamamatsu Photonics K. K., Tsukuba, Japan.

8:30 AM *L10.2
Biological Sensing with Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances. Jason H. Hafner, Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

9:00 AM L10.3
Polarization-Dependent Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering from Plasmonic Silver Nanoparticle Arrays. Wei Luo2, Ping Chu2, Douglas L. Mills2, Wytze van der Veer1, Reginald M. Penner1 and John C. Hemminger1; 1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California; 2Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California.

9:15 AM L10.4
Structural Dynamics of a Single Photoreceptor Protein Molecule Monitored with Laser-activated Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates. Kushagra Singhal1, Wouter Hoff2, Aihua Xie3 and A. Kaan Kalkan1; 1Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; 2Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; 3Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

9:30 AM *L10.5
Plasmonic Nanostructure-molecule Complexes: Interactions, Actuation, and in situ Spectroscopy. Naomi Halas, ECE Department MS-366, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

10:00 AM BREAK

SESSION L11: Advanced Spectroscopy and Microscopy
Chair: Sergey Bozhevolnyi
Thursday Morning, March 27, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

10:30 AM L11.1
Probing the Plasmonic Local Density of States Using Cathodoluminescence Imaging Spectroscopy. Martin Kuttge1, Ernst Jan R. Vesseur1, A. Femius Koenderink1, Henri J. Lezec2,3, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo4, Harry A. Atwater2 and Albert Polman1; 1Center for Nanophotonics, FOM-Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 3Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST, Gaitherburg, Maryland; 4Instituto de Optica, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

10:45 AM L11.2
Anomalous Infrared Conductivity Effects in Noble Metallic Thin Films Characterized by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry. David Shelton1,2, Tik Sun2, Vijay R D'Costa3, Jose Menendez3, Kevin R Coffey2 and Glenn D Boreman1; 1CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida; 2AMPAC, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida; 3Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

11:00 AM L11.3
Infrared Near-field Measurements at the Surface of Thermal Sources and Quantum Cascade Lasers. Paul-Arthur Lemoine1, Virginie Moreau2, Raffaele Colombelli2, Jean-Jacques Greffet3 and Yannick De Wilde1; 1Laboratoire d'Optique Physique, ESPCI - CNRS, Paris, France; 2Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Université Paris Sud - CNRS, Orsay, France; 3Laboratoire EM2C, Ecole Centrale Paris - CNRS, Châtenay-Malabry, France.

11:15 AM L11.4
Direct Mapping of Surface Plasmon Modes using Cathodoluminescence Imaging Spectroscopy. Ernst Jan R. Vesseur1, Rene de Waele1, Henri J. Lezec2,3, Harry A. Atwater2, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo4 and Albert Polman1; 1FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 3Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 4Instituto de Optica - CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

11:30 AM L11.5
Real Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometric Analysis of Magneto-optic Nanocomposite Films. Thomas W.H. Oates, Chemical Systems Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

11:45 AM L11.6
A Novel Near-field Raman and White Light Imaging System for Nano Photonic and Plasmonic Studies. Ze Xiang Shen, Johnson Kasim, Yumeng You and Chaoling Du; Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.

SESSION L12: Nonlinearities and Gain
Chair: Satoshi Kawata
Thursday Afternoon, March 27, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *L12.1
Controlling Light with Plasmonic Metamaterials. Anatoly V Zayats, Centre for Nanostructured Media, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.

2:00 PM *L12.2
Plasmonic Bandgaps of Structured Metallic Thin Films Towards Surface Plasmon Laser. Takayuki Okamoto, Nanophotonics Lab., RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan.

2:30 PM L12.3
Achieving Surface Plasmon Polariton Amplification by Stimulated Emission at Telecom Frequencies. Muralidhar Ambati, Sunghyun Nam, Dentcho A. Genov, Erick Ulin-Avila and Xiang Zhang; NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

2:45 PM BREAK

SESSION L13: Metamaterials
Chair: Henri Lezec
Thursday Afternoon, March 27, 2008
Room 2012 (Moscone West)

3:15 PM *L13.1
Plasmonic Metamaterials: Fabrication and Applications. Teri Wang Odom, Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

3:45 PM *L13.2
Magnetic Response Metamaterials and Their Fabrication Technique. Takuo Tanaka1,2, Nobuyuki Takeyasu1 and Satoshi Kawata1,3,4; 1Nanophotonics Lab., RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan; 2PRESTO, JST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan; 3Applied Physics, Osaka Univ., Suita, Osaka, Japan; 4CREST, JST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan.

4:15 PM *L13.3
Terahertz Plasmonic Metamaterials. Amit Agrawal1, Valy Vardeny2 and Ajay Nahata1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; 2Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

4:45 PM L13.4
Multiscale Plasmonic Metamaterials. Joel Henzie1, Teri W. Odom1,2 and Min Hyung Lee1; 1Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.



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