Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- Improved Materials and Applications II

Presentations

• Low-loss multilayered metamaterial exhibiting a negative index of refraction at visible wavelengths

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 1, 2012, 2:30 PM – March 1, 2012, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Carlos Garcia-Meca

    • Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Nanophotonics Technology Center.

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• Photonic-Plasmonic Coupling and Near Field Engineering in Nanoparticle Necklaces

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 3:06 PM – March 1, 2012, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Alyssa J. Pasquale

    • Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
    • Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University

  • Bj\"orn Reinhard

    • Boston University Chemistry Department

  • Luca Dal Negro

    • Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
    • Boston University
    • Department Electrical Engineering, Boston University
    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Photonics Center, Boston University
    • Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
    • ECE Dept. and Photonics Center Boston University \& Div. of MSE Boston University
    • Electrical Engineering and Materials Science Boston University

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• Probing Thermomechanics at the Nanoscale: Impulsively Excited Pseudosurface Acoustic Waves in Hypersonic Phononic Crystals

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 3:18 PM – March 1, 2012, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • D. Nardi

    • JILA - University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

  • Q. Li

    • JILA - University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

  • K. Hoogeboom-Pot

    • JILA - University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

  • M. Murnane

    • JILA - University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

  • H. Kapteyn

    • JILA - University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

  • M. Siemens

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Denver, USA

  • M. Travagliati

    • Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST - IIT, Pisa, Italy

  • F. Parmigiani

    • Dipartimento di Fisica - Universita' degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

  • G. Ferrini

    • Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica - Universita' Cattolica, Brescia, Italy

  • F. Banfi

    • Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica - Universita' Cattolica, Brescia, Italy

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• Plasmonic nanotips for spectroscopy with nanometer-scale resolution

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 3:30 PM – March 1, 2012, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Johannes Feist

    • ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Semion K. Saikin

    • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

  • M.T. Homer Reid

    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik

    • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

  • Mikhail D. Lukin

    • Department of Physics, Harvard University

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• Structural and Optical Properties of Metals in Photonic Semiconductor Devices

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 3:42 PM – March 1, 2012, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Meng-Mu Shih

    • University of Florida

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• Cavity Resonances in Plasmonic Patch Nanoantennas

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 3:54 PM – March 1, 2012, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ayan Chakrabarty

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Feng Wang

    • Kent State University

  • Fred Minkowski

    • Kent State University

  • Qi-Huo Wei

    • Kent State University

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• Efficient calculation for waveguides and for photonic crystal band structures using improved finite elements in 2D

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 4:06 PM – March 1, 2012, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • C.R. Boucher

    • WPI
    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • C.I. AhHeng

    • WPI

  • L.R. Ram-Mohan

    • WPI
    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    • Physics Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

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• Diffusion of a Plasmon-Exciton Polaron

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 4:18 PM – March 1, 2012, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Charles Cherqui

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  • David Dunlap

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  • Andrei Piryatinski

    • Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Lab

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• Coherent interband transport in binary zigzag optical waveguide arrays

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 4:30 PM – March 1, 2012, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Kin Chung Au Yeung

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Nai Jing Deng

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Cheung Wai Chau

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Sai Kit Yung

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Kin Wah Yu

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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• Tunable rainbow trapped in a self-similar liquid crystal waveguide

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 4:42 PM – March 1, 2012, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Qing Hu

    • National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

  • Si-Hui Wang

    • National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

  • Di-Hu Xu

    • National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

  • Yu Zhou

    • National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

  • Ru-Wen Peng

    • National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

  • Mu Wang

    • National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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• A New Strategy for Designing Broadband Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 4:54 PM – March 1, 2012, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Hon Ping Lee

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Ka Shing Hui

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Lei Sun

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Kin Wah Yu

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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• Effective permittivity of ensemble-averaged waves in dense random plasmonic composites

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 5:06 PM – March 1, 2012, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Satvik Wani

    • Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA

  • Ashok Sangani

    • National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA 22230, USA

  • Radhakrishna Sureshkumar

    • Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
    • Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

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• Microfabrication of highly absorbent THz metafilms tuned for specific frequencies

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 5:18 PM – March 1, 2012, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Dragoslav Grbovic

    • Naval Postgraduate School

  • Fabio Alves

    • Naval Postgraduate School

  • Brian Kearney

    • Naval Postgraduate School

  • Gamani Karunasiri

    • Naval Postgraduate School

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