6th Annual Summer Workshop |
Optoelectronics Center Director and Event Host Dr. Mike Fiddy |
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May 27 - 30, 2009 UNC Charlotte Campus
Metamaterials Program PDF (6.8 MB)
The field of metamaterials is growing rapidly and is starting to impact our thinking about the design of microwave, THz and optical components and devices. There remain many challenges both in designing structures that exhibit desired characteristics as well as in fabricating them with sufficient precision and at low cost. The purpose of this CRI Workshop is to bring together a broad community of researchers and prospective users in the field to review the state of the subject and to better understand the very interdisciplinary and fundamental aspects of what is feasible in the next few years. Presentations and discussions will include considerations of the basic models for describing propagation and scattering through linear and nonlinear periodic structures as well as the extreme values and bandwidths for metamaterial permittivities and permeabilities one might be able to realize. Fabrication processes are advancing constantly as are new concepts for how to assemble artificial materials with exceptional properties. Limitations to these processes and how to reliably model the resulting materials' characteristics will be discussed.
This residential workshop will run from Wednesday May 27th to Saturday May 30th on the UNC Charlotte campus. Check in will begin the evening of May 26th. All local transportation, accommodation and food will be provided after arriving in Charlotte. Our aim is to ensure the atmosphere is not overly structured and which is similar in style to a Gordon Conference. This will permit plenty of time for brainstorming and networking. One of the outcomes of the meeting is a special issue of Waves in Random and Complex Media, as with one of our previous workshops.
Schedule and Participants
| Wednesday May 27th |
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| 8.30 | Welcome and Introductory remarks | Mike Fiddy, UNC Charlotte |
| 9.00 | Transforming light with metamaterials | Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University |
| 10.00 | Materials and integration technologies for metamaterial structures | Nan Jokerst, Duke University |
| 11.00 | Metamaterials for RF, Photonic and RF/Photonic Applications | Dennis Prather, University of Delaware |
| 12.00 | Lunch and Tour of Grigg Hall | |
| 2.00 | Low refractive index materials; a new class of optical thin film materials | E. Fred Schubert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. |
| 3.00 | Fabrication of nanostructures using the Imprio100 step&repeat nanoimprint system | Lou Deguzman & Alec Martin, UNC Charlotte |
| 4.00 | Frozen mode regime in bounded photonic crystals | Alex Figotin, University of California in Irvine |
| 4.45 | Absorption suppression in periodic composite structures | Ilya Vitebskiy, University of California in Irvine |
| 6.30 | Dinner in Witherspoon |
| Thursday May 28th |
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| 8.30 | New horizons of nanoplasmonics | Mark Stockman, Georgia State U |
| 9.30 | The road to quantum level NIM metamaterials, | Clifford Krowne, Naval Research Laboratory |
| 10.30 | New propagation effects in semiconductors in the uv range | Michael Scalora, AMRDEC, US Army |
| 11.30 | Fundamentals of Superlattices and Photonic Crystals: Technical Issues in Implementation | Ray Tsu, UNC Charlotte |
| 12.00 | Lunch | |
| 1.30 | Waves in graded index and nonlinear metamaterials | Natalia M. Litchinitser, SUNY at Buffalo |
| 2.30 | Highly anisotropic form-birefringent structures and measurements. | Bill Yang, Western Carolina University |
| 3.30 | Total disorder as an alternative to perfect periodicity | Valentin Freilikher, Bar-Ilan U., Israel |
| 4.30 | Asymptotic theory of wave process in networks of thin fibers | Stas Molchanov & Boris Vainberg, UNC Charlotte |
| 6.00 | Dinner in Witherspoon |
| Friday May 29th |
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| 8.30 | Optical Metamaterials | Guy Bartal, UC Berkeley |
| 9.30 | Polarization properties of plasmonic/photonic hybrid crystals and applications | David Crouse, CUNY |
| 10.30 | Optical Mesomaterials: Coupled Microresonator Arrays | Vasily Astratov, UNC Charlotte |
| 11.30 | Demonstrating Cloaking at Optical Frequencies | Jaime Cardenas, Cornell University |
| 12.30 | Lunch and custom tours of Grigg and Duke Centennial Hall laboratories | |
| 2.00 | Plasmon coupling in 2D arrays | John Heckel, Clemson University |
| 2.45 | Propagation of waves in randomly perturbed periodic media | Yuri Godin, UNC Charlotte |
| 3.30 | Two-dimensional acoustic metamaterials based on Mie resonances | Xianyu Ao, UNC Charlotte |
| 4.00 | Materials growth and fabrication | Ian Ferguson, Georgia Tech / UNCC |
| 6.00 | Dinner in Witherspoon |
| Saturday May 30th |
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| 9.00 | Federal funding and industry collaboration session |
Additional Participants
| Richard Hammond, ARO Program Manager Roger Lang, George Washington University Robert Hudgins, UNC Charlotte Kenneth Gonsalves, UNC Charlotte Tsinghua Her, UNC Charlotte Mark Martich, Tyco Electronics Balakishore Yellampalle, Athary Photonics Serguei Maximenko, Naval Research Laboratory Yigit Yilmaz, UNC Charlotte Jordan Poler, UNC Charlotte Mehrdad Abolbashari, UNC Charlotte Shahab Chitchian, UNC Charlotte Kasra Daneshvar, UNC Charlotte Serhat Tozburun, UNC Charlotte Viktor Smolski, UNC Charlotte David Witter, UNC Charlotte Oleg Smolski, UNC Charlotte Sharonda Johnson, UNC Charlotte Robert Ingel, UNC Charlotte Shane Ritter, UNC Charlotte Thomas DuBois, UNC Charlotte |
Phil Williams, Independent Industry Consultant Richard Dudley, UNC Charlotte Mona Mayeh, UNC Charlotte Yi-Chen Chuang, UNC Charlotte Haitao Zhang, UNC Charlotte Aaron Cannistra, UNC Charlotte Kushal Bhattacharjee, RF Micro Devices Zachary Roth, UNC Charlotte Menelaos Poutous, UNC Charlotte Pradeep Srinivasan, UNC Charlotte Ed Stokes, UNC Charlotte Aaron Pung, UNC Charlotte Iftekhar Mirza, University of Delaware Lee W. Casperson, UNC Charlotte John Schenk, UNC Charlotte Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University Nicolas Kudsieh, UNC Charlotte Arash Darafsheh, UNC Charlotte Kenneth Allen, UNC Charlotte M. A. Hasan, UNC Charlotte Jianguo Xin, UNC Charlotte |
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