Organizers:

Representative

Kiyoshi ASAKAWA	University of Tsukuba

Co-Organizers

Masaya NOTOMI	NTT
Hideki MIYAZAKI	National Institute for Materials Science
Shinji HAYASHI	Kobe University
Toshiharu TERANISHI	Kyoto University

Correspondence

Kiyoshi ASAKAWA	University of Tsukuba	asakawa.kiyoshi.ga@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Scope:

Photonics has long drove information and communication technologies by its major functions, that is, light wave transmittance, processing and accumulation. In particular, recent nano-photonics feature strong optical-field confinement into a nano-scale small area, thus bringing about a new paradigm towards such as huge optical nonlinearity and novel near-field optics available beyond the diffraction limit. Examples include ultra-small silicon photonics, novel optical memory and nano-cavity using surface plasmon, slow light, and coupled quantum dots. In addition, nano-photonics has rapidly spread into multidisciplinary fields such as biology, energy and environmental fields represented by solar cells, photo-catalysis, new UV lighting materials, nano-bio-sensing and imaging. Accordingly, topics of this conference include photonics for information technology, biology, energy, environment and fundamental fabrication, characterization, design and modeling technologies for such photonic materials.

Topics:

• Photonic quantum dot technologies
• Photonic crystals
• Near-field photonics
• Plasmonic technologies/materials
• Meta-materials
• Si-photonics
• Bio-photonics and lab-on-a-chip
• Molecular/organic photonics
• Growth, fabrication and modeling for photonics/plasmonics

Invited Speakers:

T. BABA	Yokohama National University

Lecture title: Photonic Crystals for Slow-light Application

A. V. KABASHIN	Universite de Mediterranee

Lecture title: Plasmonic Nano-bio-sensing

Jiangeng XUE	University of Florida

Lecture title: Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Electronic Materials for Photovoltaic Applications

Y. P. CUI	Southeast University

Lecture title: Nanophotonic Materials/structures

T. OKADA	University of Tokyo

Lecture title: Quantum Dots for Photovoltaics

H. MISAWA	University of Hokkaido

Lecture title: Surgface Plasmonics

A. SCHERER	Caltech

Lecture title: State-of-the-art Nanophotonics (Tentative)

T. TERANISHI	Kyoto University

Lecture title: Inorganic nanoplasmonics

M. NOTOMI	NTT

Lecture title: Photonic crystals

Y. KANEMITSU	Kyoto University

Lecture title: Group-IV photonics (tentative)