MediNano-3

FINAL PROGRAM

 

 

Monday, October 18th 2010

 

8:00 - 8:30

Registration (continued throughout the conference)

 

8:30 - 8:45

Conference Opening

 

Session 1

Chair: Sergei Tretyakov, Aalto University, Finland

 

8:45 - 9:15

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, "Plasmonics beyond the diffraction limit" (Keynote Talk)

9:15 - 9:45

Yeshaiahu Fainman, "Active and Passive Nanophotonics for Information Systems Applications" (Keynote Talk)

9:45 - 10:05

Ekmel Ozbay, "Enhanced Transmission Through Deep Subwavelength Apertures Using Metamaterials" (Invited Talk)

10:05 - 10:25

Avi Zadok, Xiankai Sun, Michael J. Shearn, Harry A. Atwater, Axel Scherer and Amnon Yariv, "Hybrid Si-InGaAsP Laser Diodes" (Invited Talk)

 

10:25 - 10:50

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 2

Chair: Milivoj Belić, Texas A&M University, Qatar

 

10:50 - 11:35

A. Szameit, Y. Shechtman, S. Gazit, P. Sidorenko, Y. C. Eldar, O. Cohen and Mordechai Segev, "Sparsity-based sub-wavelength imaging, and super-resolution in time and frequency" (Plenary Talk)

11:35 - 11:55

C. Sauvan, I.S. Maksymov, J.P. Hugonin and P. Lalanne, "Broadband single-mode radiation" (Invited Talk)

11:55 - 12:15

Francisco Mesa, Francisco Medina and Raúl Rodríguez-Berral, "On the circuit modeling of extraordinary-transmission phenomena" (Invited Talk)

12:15 - 12:35

Jacob Scheuer and Yuval Yifat, "Dynamical Slowing and trapping of light in coupled semiconductor laser arrays" (Invited Talk)

12:35 - 12:55

S. Coppola, S. Grilli, M. Paturzo, V. Vespini and Pietro Ferraro, "Optofluidic shooting for dispensing of nano/pico droplets and liquid patterning" (Invited Talk)

12:55 - 13:10

Jiao Lin and Federico Capasso, "Generation of Phase Singularities by Plasmonic Beam Shaping"

13:10 - 13:25

Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez, David Pastor, María T. Caballero, Vicent Camps and Juan J. Miret, "The 3D Point Spread Function of Multilayered Superlenses"

13:25 - 13:40

S. I. Mitryukovskiy, I. E. Razdolski, T. V. Murzina, O. A. Aktsipetrov, M. V. Pashkevich, A. I. Stognij, "Second Harmonic Generation in the planar Au/Co/Si(111) structure"

 

13:40 - 15:00

Lunch Break

 

 

Session 3

Chair: Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

 

15:00 - 15:20

Javier García de Abajo, "Probing and generating localized plasmons with fast electrons" (Invited Talk)

15:20 - 15:40

Ibrahim Abdulhalim, "Surface Plasmon based sensing using anisotropic nanostructured thin films" (Invited Talk)

15:40 - 16:00

Slobodan Vuković, "Surface waves and surface states in plasmonic crystals" (Invited Talk)

16:00 - 16:20

Ady Arie, Ido Dolev and Tal Ellenbogen, "Nonlinear Generation and Manipulation of Accelerating Beams" (Invited Talk)

16:20 - 16:35

Alina Karabchevsky, Serge Karabchevsky and Ibrahim Abdulhalim, "Fast Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Sensor"

 

 

16:35 - 17:00

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 4

Chair: Slobodan Vuković, Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia

 

17:00 - 17:20

Zeev Zalevsky , Asaf Shahmoon, Ran Aharoni and Moshe Sinvanoi, "Fiber-integrated photonic modulation" (Invited Talk)

17:20 - 17:40

Georgios Kakarantzas, C. Markos and K. Vlachos, "Silica-Polymer Photonic Crystal Fibers" (Invited Talk)

17:40 - 18:00

Markus Schmidt, Hemant Tyagi, Howard Lee, Nicolai Granzow, Philip St.J. Russell, Ning Da, Mingying Peng and Lothar Wondraczek, "Hybrid photonic crystal fibers: from plasmonics to supercontinuum generation" (Invited Talk)

18:00 - 18:15

Gideon Carmon and Mario Feingold, "Using Optical Tweezers to rotate single bacterial cells relative to the optical axis"

18:15 - 18:30

Oleg Lupan, Thierry Pauporté, Fabienne Pellé and Bruno Viana, "ZnO Nanowires for hybrid low-voltage UV-LED"

18:30 - 18:45

Marko Spasenović, Dirk Jan Dikken, Ewold Verhagen, Dries van Oosten, and Kobus Kuipers, "Bending losses in curved plasmonic nanowire waveguides"

18:45 - 19:00

Michael A. Golub, "Adiabatically varying highly efficient photonic structures"

 

 

Poster sessions A

12:00 - 20:00

Chair: Jelena Radovanović, University of Belgrade, Serbia

 

1.   

Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez, David Pastor and Juan J. Miret, "Optimal spherical aberration compensation in asymmetric metamaterial superlenses"

2.   

Vladan Čelebonović, "Invisibility of low dimensional materials: a possible way to achieve it?"

3.   

Juan J. Miret, David Pastor and Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez, "Nondiffracting subwavelength beams near surfaces"

4.   

Lilia Vladimirova, Elitsa Pavlova, Alexandre Gritzkow, "Chemiluminescent study on the susceptibility of ferritin and albumin with reactive oxygen species"

5.   

Lilia Vladimirova, Tzvetan Velinov, Alexandre Gritzkow, "A SPR study of adsorption of ferritin on gold surface"

6.   

Marijana Dalarsson, Martin Norgren and Zoran Jakšić, "A Lossy Gradient Index Metamaterial with Sinusoidal Periodicity of Refractive Index"

7.   

Marko Filipović, Zoran Jakšić and Jovan Matovic, "Nano-Shrinkwrap" Approach To Using Nanomembranes As Injectable External Cuff Electrodes For Plasmon-Based Readout of Neural Activity

8.   

Dragan Tanasković, Zoran Jakšić, Jovan Matović, "Some design considerations of metamaterial-based chemical or biological sensors"

9.   

Dušan K. Božanić and Vladimir Djoković, "A 'Simple' Analytical Expressions for the Optical Properties of Aggregates of Metallic Nanoparticles"

10.  

Zoran Ševarac, Dušan K. Božanić, Vladimir Djoković, "Determination of Shape Distribution of Metallic Nanostructures from the Absorption Spectra using Neural Networks"

11.  

Abdolrahman Namdar, Rana Feizollahi Onsoroudi, "Transmission properties of a quasiperiodic nonlinear Fibonacci structure composed of single negative materials"

12.  

Kazem Jamshidi-Ghaleh and Tavakol Touhidi, "Transmittance Spectrum of Cantor-Type Photonic Crystal Structure Containing Single Negative Layers"

13.  

Kazem Jamshidi-Ghaleh, Abdorahman Namdar and Reza Abdi-Ghaleh "Photonic Band-Gaps under Propagation of the Gaussian Beam "

14.  

Milka Mirić, Borislav Vasić, Goran Isić, Radoš Gajić, Tom Oates, Karsten Hinrichs, Iris Bergmair and Kurt Hingerl, "Analysis of the Ellipsometric Spectra of Split Ring Resonators"

15.  

Sergey E.Svyakhovskiy, Anton I. Maydykovskiy and Oleg A. Aktsipetrov, "Experimental observation of Laue Diffraction of light in one-dimensional photonic crystals"

16.  

Mark Auslender, Moshe Zohar and Shlomo Hava, "Grating Mirror Based High Efficiency Optical Resonance Cavity: Application to IR Photodetectors

17.  

Aleksandra Piper, Dejan V. Timotijević and Milivoj Belić, "Tilted Wide Beams in 1D Periodic Waveguide Arrays"

18.  

Vladimir Damljanović, Svetlana Savić-Šević, Dejan Pantelić and Branislav Jelenković, "On the Appearance of Multiple Peaks in the Reflectivity of One-dimensional Photonic Crystals"

19.  

Dragana Jović, Dejan Timotijević, Aleksandra Piper and Milivoj Belić, "Wave localization at the boundary of photonic lattices"

20.  

Goran Isić, Milka Mirić, Marko Filipović, Djordje Jovanović, Borislav Vasić, Radmila Kostić, Radoš Gajić, Iris Bergmair, Kurt Hingerl, Tom Oates, Karsten Hinrichs, Jozef Humlicek, Maria Losurdo, and Giovanni Bruno, "Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Few Layer Graphene" 

21.  

Vojislav Milošević, Radovan Bojanić, Branka Jokanović, "Effects of Split Ring Coupling on Metamaterial Parameters" 

22.  

Miranda Mitrović, Branka Jokanović, "Zeroth-Order Antenna with Wide Tuning Range" 

 

 

Tuesday, October 19th 2010

 

 

 

Session 1

Chair: Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

 

8:00 - 8:45

Vahid Sandoghdar, "Quantum Optics with Single Molecules" (Plenary Talk)

 

8:45 - 9:05

Maria Kafesaki, R. Penciu, Th. Koschny, N.H. Shen, E.N. Economou, Costas M. Soukoulis, "Designing left-handed metamaterials for the optical regime" (Invited Talk)

9:05 - 9:25

Carsten Rockstuhl, C. Menzel, S. Mühlig, C. Helgert, B. Walther, A. Chipouline, C. Etrich, A. Cunningham, T. Bürgi, E.-B. Kley, T. Pertsch and Falk Lederer, "Amorphous Metamaterials" (Invited Talk)

9:25 - 9:45

Zoran Jakšić, Nanomembrane-Based Plasmonics (Invited Talk)

9:45 - 10:05

Jelena Radovanović, Igor Ilić, Petra P. Beličev, Ljupčo Hadžievski and Vitomir Milanović, "On tunneling times in dispersive and nonlinear metamaterials" (Invited Talk)

10:05 - 10:25

Branka Jokanović, "Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Reconfigurable Metamaterials Based on Split-Ring Resonators" (Invited Talk)

 

 

10:25 - 10:50

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 2

Chair: Maria Kafesaki, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Crete, Greece

 

10:50 - 11:20

Sergei Tretyakov, "Cloaking and Invisibility from Microwaves to Optics" (Keynote Talk)

11:20 - 11:40

Juan P. Martínez Pastor, Rafael Abargues, José Marqués, Esteban Pedrueza and José L. Valdés, "Plasmonic nanocomposites for sensing and photovoltaic applications" (Invited Talk)

11:40 - 12:00

Falk Lederer, Carsten Rockstuhl, C. Menzel, T. Paul, A. Andryieuski, R. Malureanu and A. Lavrinenko, "Isotropic Optical Metamaterials" (Invited Talk)

12:00 - 12:20

Shankar K. Jha, Zeeshan Ahmed, Yasin Ekinci and Jörg F. Löffler, "Novel plasmonic nanostructures for ultrasensitive biosensors" (Invited Talk)

12:20 - 12:40

Juan-Jose Sanz Fernandez, Carolina Mateo-Segura, Rebecca Cheung and George Goussetis, "Near-field enhancement for IR sensor applications" (Invited Talk)

12:40 - 13:00

L. Biadala, Y. Louyer, Ph. Tamarat and B. Lounis, "Optical spectroscopy of individual CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals: Band-edge exciton fine structure under external magnetic fields" (Invited Talk)

13:00 - 13:15

Jordi Sancho-Parramon, Vesna Janicki and Hrvoje Zorc, "Tuning the effective dielectric function or thin film metal-dielectric composites by controlling the deposition temperature"

13:15 - 13:30

A. Shalabney,  A. C. Khare, Bernd Rauschenbach and I. Abdulhalim, "Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering from Metallic Sculptured Thin Films – A Comparative Study"

 

 

13:30 - 15:00

Lunch Break

 

 

Session 3

Chair: Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

 

15:00 - 15:30

Alexander M. Merzlikin, "Formation of band gaps in anisotropic magnetophotonic crystals" (Keynote Talk)

15:30 - 15:50

Dragana Jović and Milivoj Belić, "Anderson localization of counterpropagating beams in photonic crystals" (Invited Talk)

15:50 - 16:10

Dejan Pantelić, Svetlana Savić-Šević, Vladimir Damljanović and Branislav Jelenković, "Holographic generation of wide bandgap structures" (Invited Talk)

16:10 - 16:30

Jean-Michel Gerard, J. Claudon, J. Bleuse, N. S. Malik, M. Bazin, P. Jaffrennou, C. Sauvan, J.-P. Hugonin, P. Lalanne, N. Gregersen and J. Mřrk, "Quantum optics with quantum dots in photonic nanowires" (Invited Talk)

16:30 - 16:45

Dušan Djurdjević, "Beam Propagation Methods in Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics"

 

 

16:45 - 17:15

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 4

Chair: Pietro Ferraro, CNR - INO Istituto Nazionle di Ottica, INOA, Italy

 

17:15 - 17:35

Hamza Kurt, "Design of photonic structures for slow light applications" (Invited Talk)

17:35 - 17:55

Humberto Michinel, Alicia V. Carpentier, María Martínez-Valado, "Self mode-locked atomic lasers" (Invited Talk)

17:55 - 18:15

Antonio Díez, J. Cascante-Vindas, S. Torres-Peiró, J. L. Cruz, Miguel V. Andrés, "Specialty and post-processed microstructured optical fibers. Applications" (Invited Talk)

18:15 - 18:35

Yasin Karadag, Mustafa Gündoğan, Mehdi Yavuz Yüce, Hüseyin Çankaya, Alphan Sennaroğlu and Alper Kiraz, "Photothermal Size-Stabilization for Prolonged Raman Lasing in Salt-Water Microdroplets on a Superhydrophobic Surface" (Invited Talk)

18:35 - 18:50

Christian E. Rüter and Detlef Kip, "Non-reciprocal optical wave propagation in a PT-symmetric index potential"

18:50 - 19:05

Jung-Joon Ahn, Sung-Jae Joo, Wook Bahng, Sang-Chul Kim, Nam-Kyun Kim and Sang-Mo Koo, "Nano-structure Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Using Atomic Force Microscopy"

19:05 - 19:20

Pezhman Sasanpour, Babak Rashidian, Bizhan Rashidian and Manouchehr Vossoughi, "Cancer Cell Apoptosis by Localized UV Light Resulting from Third Order Nonlinear Enhancement in Gold Nanostructures; An FDTD Study"

19:20 - 19:35

A. Angelow, T. L. Dimitrova, D. Trifonov, V. Angelov, H. Hristov, "Quantum Fluctuations of electrons in FEL-undulator, working at nano-wavelength"

 

 

21:00

Conference Dinner

 

 

Poster sessions B

12:00 - 20:00

Chair: Branka Jokanović, Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia

 

1.   

Tatjana Keča, Petar Matavulj, William Headley and Goran Mashanovich, "Modelling of Silicon Racetrack Resonator"

2.   

R. Kostić and D. Stojanović, "Nonlinear absorption spectra of intersubband transitions of CdSe/ZnS spherical quantum dots

3.   

Ji-Chul Jung and Sang-Mo Koo, "Source/drain metal work function dependent optical characteristics of Schottky barrier metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors"

4.   

Ljubiša Тоmić, Jovan Elazar and Bojan Milanović, "The influence of subsurface defects in material on differencies in numerical and experimental detection results, applying pulse thermography"

5.   

Christos Markos, Kyriakos Vlachos and George Kakarantzas, "Bend Measurements of a Photonic Crystal Fiber with elastomer inclusions"

6.   

Min-Seok Kang, Min-Young Hwang, Sung Jae Joo, Wook Bahng, Sang-Chul Kim, Nam-Kyun Kim and Sang-Mo Koo, "Anti-Reflective Honeycomb Micro-Structures On 6H-SiC For Photovoltaic Cells"

7.   

Min-Young Hwang and Sang-Mo Koo, "CNT-masked nano-structured channel for sensitivity photo-transistors"

8.   

Jovana Petrović, Petar Matavulj, Leon Pinto and Sandra Živanović, "The interplay of device structure and intrinsic polymer photophysics and its effects on the ITO/PEDOT:PSS/MEH-PPV/Al photocurrent spectra"

9.    

Đorđe Jovanović and Radoš Gajić, "Optical properties of the (3.4.6.4) hexagonal Archimedean photonic crystal"

10.  

Darko Vasiljević, Branka Murić, Dejan Pantelić and Bratimir Panić, "Influence of TESG layer viscoelasticity on the imaging properties of microlenses"

11.  

Goran Isić, Dragan Indjin, Vitomir Milanović, Jelena Radovanović, Zoran Ikonić and Paul Harrison, "Scattering effects in resonant magneto-tunnelling in InAs-based heterostructures"

12.  

Christian Wilde, Christian E. Rüter, Milutin Stepić, Petra Beličev and Detlef Kip, "Thermal narrow-band infrared emitters based on photonic crystal structures"

13.  

Jovan P. Šetrajčić, Dragoljub Lj. Mirjanić, Svetlana S. Pelemiš, Siniša M. Vučenović, Blanka Škipina and Ana J. Šetrajčić-Tomić, "Optical Absorption Particularities of Molecular Nanofilms"

14.  

Nenad V. Delić, Jovan P. Šetrajčić, Stevan Armaković, Svetlana S. Pelemiš, Saša Cvetković, Igor J. Šetrajčić and Vladimir Holodkov, "Quantum Influences of Information Transport on the Production of Nano-Photonic Devices"

15.  

Borislav Vasić, Goran Isić, Radoš Gajić, Kurt Hingerl, "Graded photonic crystals for implementation of gradient refractive index media"

16.  

Aleksander G. Kovačević, Milesa Srećković, Zoran Karastojković, Aleksandar Grujić, Veljko Zarubica, Predrag Jovanić and Branislav M. Jelenković, "Laser beam damaging of PMMA-type materials"

17.  

Ljupčo Hadžievski, Aleksandra Maluckov and Boris Malomed, "Fundamental bright solitons in the lattice with nonadiabatic nonlinear response"

18.  

S. Prvanović, D. Jović, R. Jovanović, A. Strinić and M. Belić, "Dynamical instability of counterpropagating matter waves in optical lattices"

19.  

A. Strinić, M. Petrović, and M. Belić, "Laser beam propagation in bias-free nematic liquid crystals"

20.  

Dejan Pantelić, Srećko Ćurčić,  Svetlana Savić-Šević, Aleksandra Korać, Branislav Jelenković and Božidar Ćurčić, "Photonic properties of the lesser purple emperor butterfly (Apatura ilia)"

21.  

Jovan M. Elazar, Vesna Damnjanović, "Production of Thin Dielectric Layers on p-Hg1-xCdxTe"