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Symposium on Active Nanophotonic Devices
Ferroelectrics, Optofluidics, Plasmonics, Spintronics, & Quantum Dots

Sunday, May 21, 2006
Beckman Institute Auditorium, Caltech


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8:00-9:00 am Registration
9:00-9:45 am 21st Century Photonics
Amnon Yariv, Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering
9:45-10:15 am What is the Limit of Focusing Light?
Eli Yablonovitch, The Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronics Chair, Professor of Electrical Engineering
10:15-10:30 am Coffee break
10:30-11:00 am Ferroelectric Nanophotonic Devices
Kaushik Bhattacharya, Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science
11:00-12:00 pm Industrial Panel
Nanophotonics for Space and Defense Applications

Dwight Streit
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch and poster session
Various
1:30-2:15 pm Nano-photonics & Fluidics Integration
Axel Scherer, Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, and Physics
2:15-2:45 pm Plasmonics - A Route to Nanoscale Optical Devices
Harry Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science
2:45-3:15 pm Photonic Crystal Devices
Oskar Painter, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
3:15-3:45 pm Coffee break
3:45-4:15 pm Nanophotonics Research at HP Labs
Stan Williams

4:15-4:45 pm

Novel Organic Heterostructures for Spintronic and Optoelectronic Applications
Nai-Chang Yeh, Professor of Physics
4:45-5:15 pm Ultra high-Q Micro-toroid Resonators
Kerry Vahala, Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology and Professor of Applied Physics
5:15-6:00 pm Break
6:00-8:00 pm Dinner