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Symposium GG: Excitons and Plasmon Resonances in Nanostructures

Symposium GG: Excitons and Plasmon Resonances in Nanostructures Image

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This symposium will cover two types of nanostructures: self-assembled epitaxial nanostructures and colloidal nanoparticles. Self-assembled epitaxial nanostructures are associated with laser physics and quantum information, while colloidal nanoparticles have unique properties important for biological applications, such as sensors, actuators, and heat generators. Nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, and other nanostructures with different morphologies are the building blocks of many of the nanodevices in modern nanotechnology. One must have a clear knowledge of the physical properties of such nanostructures to construct nanodevices. Excitons and plasmons, two relevant optical phenomena, are important in many nanoscale applications. In addition, coupling semiconductor nanocrystals to nanostructured metals brings new and interesting aspects, including plasmons and exciton-plasmon interactions.

The symposium welcomes those working experimentally or theoretically on the synthesis, characterization, and application of nanostructures, specifically those working on the modification of the nanostructures’ optical properties, on the optical characterization and modeling of the nanostructures, or on other optical-related applications. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers studying optical properties of different material systems, such as self-assembled dots, colloidal nanoparticles and nanowires, and plasmon waveguides.

Session topics will include:

  • Fundamental challenges of nanostructure growth and fabrication in quantum information applications
  • Excitons in self-assembled quantum dots, quantum-dot molecules, and quantum-dot arrays
  • Coherent manipulation of quantum states in nanostructures via optical means and quantum optics with quantum dots
  • Colloidal nanoparticles and nanowires, as well as their superstructures and bio-assemblies
  • Plasmon resonances in metal nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanotubes
  • Plasmon waveguides and nanoscale metallic optical antennas
  • Plasmon resonances in arrays of holes
  • Förster energy transfer, light-harvesting effects, and photocurrents
  • Generation of heat with optically excited metal nanocrystals and its applications
  • Physical models of nanocrystals

A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned. Further information will be included in the program that will be available in September.

Invited speakers include (partial list): Harry A. Atwater (California Inst. of Technology), David Awschalom (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), Garnett W. Bryant (National Inst. of Standards and Technology), Federico Capasso (Harvard Univ.), Yonghai Chen (Inst. for Semiconductors, CAS, China), Alexander Efros (Naval Research Lab), Jochen Feldmann (Ludwig-Maximilians Univ. Munich, Germany), Minoru Fujii (Kobe Univ., Japan), Dan Gammon (Naval Research Lab), Naomi Halas (Rice Univ.), Pawel Hawrylak (National Research Council, Canada), Nick Kotov (Univ. of Michigan), Christoph Lienau (Max-Born-Inst.-Berlin, Germany), Shuming Nie (Emory Univ.), Pierre Petroff (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), Peter Peumans (Stanford Univ.), Hugh Richardson (Ohio Univ.), Gregory Salamo (Univ. of Arkansas), Ken Shih (Univ. of Texas), and Ulrike Woggon (Univ. of Dortmund, Germany).

Symposium Organizers

Alexander O. Govorov
Ohio University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Clippinger Research Labs 251B, Athens, OH 45701
Tel 740-593-9430, Fax 740-593-0433, govorov@helios.phy.ohiou.edu

Zhiming M. Wang
University of Arkansas, Dept. of Physics, Fayetteville, AR 72701
Tel 479-575-4217, Fax 479-575-4580, zmwang@uark.edu

Andrey L. Rogach
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtität München, Lehrstuhl für Photonik und Optoelektronik, Dept. für Physik und CeNS, Amalienstr. 54, D-80799 München, Germany
Tel 49-89-2180-1418 or -3318, Fax 49-89-2180-3441, andrey.rogach@physik.uni-muenchen.de

Harry Ruda
University of Toronto, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 170 College St., Toronto, ON M5S 3E4, Canada
Tel 416-978-4556, Fax 416-978-3801, ruda@ecf.utoronto.ca

Mark Brongersma
Stanford University, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Rm. 349, McCullough Bldg., 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-4045
Tel 650-736-2152, Fax 650-736-1984, brongersma@stanford.edu



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