Donostia International Physics Center
(DIPC) Workshop on
Gathering of some of the
participants during a coffee break
(click on the picture to download it)
Conference Co-Chairs:
·
Prof. Pedro Miguel Echenique (Donostia International Physics
Center, DIPC)
·
Dr. Javier García de Abajo (Donostia International Physics Center, DIPC,
jga@sw.ehu.es)
International Advisory Committee:
· Prof. C. Afonso (Instituto de Óptica “Daza Valdés”, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
·
Prof. A. Dereux (Laboratoire de Physique, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France)
·
Prof. T. Ebbesen (Laboratoire de Nanostrutures, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
·
Prof. T. Heinz (Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, USA)
· Prof. F. Meseguer (Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPV, Valencia, Spain)
·
Prof. A. Modinos (Dept. of Appl. Mathematics and Physics, National
Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
·
Prof. J. Pendry (Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, UK)
The meeting
has taken place at the
Paseo de
Miraconcha nº 48. Phone: (34)
943 219 713. Fax: (34) 943 216 008.
Location of
the
Aerial View of
Scope of the Workshop:
The aim of this workshop was to bring together
researchers with backgrounds in theory and experiments in order to assess the
present state of our understanding of small particles as building blocks of
meta-materials with engineered optical properties. This has covered the
interaction of light with both photonic crystals and non-periodic structures
over different wavelength scales ranging from the microwaves and far infrared
to the visible, as well as the theoretical and experimental techniques that are
needed to investigate them. The main purpose was to combine knowledge about
small particle characterization and complex systems of particles to gain
insight and establish new links and future collaborations.
This workshop has been of special interest to
researchers conducting theoretical or experimental studies on
·
Effective
media and meta-materials
Optics from the nanometer to the
millimeter scale
·
Collective
excitations and plasmons
·
Photonic
crystals
·
Non-linear
phenomena
·
Electron
microscopy
The
participation of PhD students and post-docs has been strongly encouraged. Talks
have been distributed in a morning (
Program (click here to download abstracts in gzipped post-script
format, 1.45 MB):
Sunday, July 6
19.00-21.00: Reception at the
Hotel Costa Vasta
Monday, July 7
9.00-
9.40: Registration
9.45-10.00: Opening session: P.M. Echenique and F. J. García de Abajo
Chairperson: M.
Käll
10.00-10.45: T. Ebbesen
Diffraction control and enhanced
transmission through
sub-wavelength
apertures in metal films
10.45-11.15: Coffee Break
11.15-12.00: L. Martín-Moreno
Extraordinary optical properties of
nanostructured metals
12.00-12.45: J. Prikulis
Light
scattering by small holes in thin metal films
13.00-16.00: Lunch at the hotel Costa Vasca
Chairperson: B. Barnes
16.00-16.45: M. Sorolla
Electromagnetic band gaps in planar
microwave technology
16.45-17.30: N. I. Zheludev
Fundamental symmetries of light's
interaction with planar
chiral
nanostructures
17-30-18.00: Coffee Break
18.00-18.45: M. Nieto-Vesperinas
Electromagnetic Forces in the Near
Field
18.45-19.30: T. Heinz
Surface
nonlinear optics of nanostructures
Tuesday, July 8
Chairperson: A.
Howie
9.30-10.15: E. Ozbay
Physics and Applications of 2D and
3D Photonic
10.15-11.00: S. Tretyakov
Physical
means to store and amplify evanescent modes
11.00-11.30: Coffee
Break
11.30-12.15: J. B. Pendry
Designing lenses for the near field
12.15-13.00: R. Marqués
Amplification
of evanescent waves and subwavelength
focusing in feasible simple physical
systems
13.00-16.00: Lunch
at the hotel Costa Vasca
Chairperson: A. Dereux
16.00-16.45: V. M. Shalaev
Plasmonic nanoantennas for guiding light
and sensing molecules
16.45-17.30: S. Coyle
Chameleon metals - metallic meshes
from self-assembled colloids
17.30-18.00: Coffee Break
18.00-20.00: Poster session
Wednesday, July 9
Chairperson: J. B. Pendry
9.30-10.15: H. Benisty
Planar
photonic crystal : the example of InP-based photonics
and
the relevant length scales in actual applications
10.15-11.00: A. Modinos
Photonic
band gaps and disorder effects
11.00-11.30: Coffee
Break
11.30-12.15: B. Barnes
Surface
plasmon length scales
12.15-13.00: F. Meseguer
New architectures in opal structures
13.00-16.00: Lunch
at the hotel Costa Vasca
16.00: Visit to “Chillida Leku”. Bus starts from
Hotel Costa Vasca
20.30: Conference dinner at the Kursaal
Restaurant
Thursday, July 10
Chairperson: V. M. Shalaev
9.30-10.15: N. Zabala
Electron
Energy Loss analysis of nanoporous alumina films
10.15-11.00: N. Yamamoto
Light emission from nano-structures
induced by
high-energy
electron beams
11.00-11.30: Coffee
Break
11.30-12.15: A. Howie
Where
is Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy Going?
12.15-13.00: C. Genet
The Casimir force: theory-experiment comparison
13.00-16.00: Lunch
at the hotel Costa Vasca
Chairperson: M. Nieto-Vesperinas
16.00-16.45: A. Dereux
Oxides and metal nanostructures for controlling
optical processes
at
the subwavelength scale
16.45-17.30: C. N. Afonso
Optical
properties of nanostructured metal nanocomposites
17.30-18.00: Coffee Break
18.00-18.45: M. Käll
Optical
properties and applications of gold and silver nanoparticles
18.45-19.30: J. Aizpurua
Simulating Nanoscale Optical
Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Friday, July 11
Chairperson: N.
Yamamoto
9.30-10.15: L. A. Blanco
Spontaneous
emission in the presence of nanostructured materials
10.15-11.00: D. Wiersma
Complex dielectric systems with
external control: from photonic
crystal
switching to tunable random laser action
11.00-11.30: Coffee
Break
11.30-12.15: A. Postigo
Photonics crystals in active media: design and fabrication
at
the IMM
12.15-13.00: L. Guidoni
Femtosecond dynamics of light
transmission through
sub-wavelength
hole arrays in metallic films
13.00-13.15: Closing
remarks and departure