Fifth Annual Symposium
The UNC Charlotte Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
Friday, October 27, 2006 8:00am - 5:00pm
Held in The New Applied Physics and Optics Building at 132 Grigg Hall
| Director of the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications and Event Host Dr. Mike Fiddy |
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Agenda Highlights
8:00 Coffee and Networking
8:30 Mike Fiddy: Introductions and UNC Charlotte Photonics “Info-mercials”
8:50 Jordan Poler CNT-FET based sensors
9:00 Yasin Raja/ M. Khizar AlGaN-based DUV LEDs
9:10 Tsing-Hua Her Conformal nanostructures
9:20 Mona Mayeh/Faramarz Farahi MMI devices
9:30 Paulo Batoni/Ed Stokes UV LED program update
9:40 Mohammad Ali Hasan Monolithic integrated detector
Break
10:10 Vasily Astratov Coupled spherical microcavities
10:20 Tom Suleski Interferometric lithography
10:30 Pat Moyer Spectroscopy with nanoholes
10:40 Tom Schmedake Colloidal SiO2 sensors
10:50 Ray Tsu (25 mins) Interaction of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots with the matrix structure and each other
Break
11:30 Jeff Conley: Carolinas Photonics Initiative
Presentations by Partner Optics Centers:
11:45 Clemson (George Chumanov)
12:00 Duke (Tuan Vo-Dinh) - Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics Overview
12:15 NCSU (Mark Johnson) - Optical Materials/Photonic Devices Research
12:30 WCU (Ken Burbank) - Center for Integrated Technologies
12:45 Lunch
2:00 Prof. Nirmal Bose, Penn State Distinguished Professor - Superresolution with a large field of view for microminiaturized imaging systems
Break
3:15 Dr. Michael Lebby, President and CEO, Optoelectronics Industry Association
4:30 Reception, networking and opportunity to meet Carolinas Photonics Cluster industry visitors