XIV INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL “NICOLÁS CABRERA”
FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
NANO-PHOTONICS AND OPTICS
Miraflores de la Sierra, Residencia La Cristalera, 17-21 September 2007
SPONSORED BY:
Fundación BBVA
Instituto Madrileno de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
DIRECTORS:
J.J. Sáenz (INC, MOLE Group, UAM)
F.J. García-Vidal, (INC, UAM)
Secretary: Silvia Albaladejo ( MOLE Group, UAM)
OBJECTIVES
The aim of this school is to introduce some relevants topics in nanophotonics to young physics and graduate students.
PROGRAM
Nanophotonics using channel plasmon polaritons
Light in Tiny Holes: Fundamentals and Applications
Scattering of light and surface plasmons by surface corrugations
Mastering optical near fields in nanostructured materials
Magneto-optical effects in plasmonic nanostructures
Bending Back Light: The Science of Negative Index Materials
General Relativity in Electrical Engineering (Metamaterials)
Single molecule fluorescence in nanoscopic environments
Optical Spectroscopy of Hybrid Nanocrystal Systems
Semiconductor nanostructures as components for quantum optics
Optical antennas for field enhanced microscopy and spectroscopy
Controlling single photon emitters in space and time
Transport and fluctuations in strongly scattering colloidal assemblies
Near Field Optical Nanoscopic
Photonic Forces in the Near Field
Photonic nanostructures based on Coloids
Single Quantum Dot Spectroscopy
Surface Plasmon Resonances in Metal Nanoparticle Colloids
Molecular chemosensors based on nanostructured metal surfaces: SERS (raman), SEIRA (infrared) and SEF (fluorescence)
Surface waves generated by subwavelength slits
Surface plasmon optics on metal nano-structures
Photonic crystals and glasses by self assembly
Solar Cells Coupled to Photonic Crystals
Photonic crystals: fabrication and applications of ordered micro and nanostructures by electrochemical etching
Optical anysotropic, light scattering and birrefringenceof nanowires and nanorods
Nano and micro quadratic nonlinear optics
Plasmon Nano-Optics: from the manipulation of light at the nanoscale to the manipulation with light of nanoobjects
Optical tools in Molecular Imaging
LECTURERS
Sajeev John(Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
Sergey Bozhevolnyi(Univ. Aallborg, Denmark)
Thomas Ebbesen (Univ. Louis Pasteur, France)
Luis Martin-Moreno (Univ.de Zaragoza, Spain)
Javier Garcia de Abajo (IO-CSIC, Spain)
Gaspar Armelles (IMM-CSIC,Spain)
Costas Soukoulis (Iowa State University, USA)
Ulf Leonhardt(Univ. of St Andrews, UK)
Remi Carminati(Ecole Centrale Paris, France)
Jochen Feldmann (Univ. Munchen, Germany)
Carlos Tejedor (Univ. Autonoma Madrid, Spain)
Javier Aizpurua (D.I.P.C, Spain)
Niek F. Van Hulst (ICFO, Spain)
Frank Scheffold (Univ.Fribourg, Switzerland)
Rainer Hillenbrand (Max-Planck Inst., Germany
Manuel Nieto Vesperinas (ICMM-CSIC, Spain)
Francisco Meseguer (ICMM-CSIC/UPV, Spain)
Paul Mulvaney (Univ. Melbourne, Australia)
Luis Liz-Marzan(Univ. de Vigo, Spain)
Concha Domingo(IEM- CSIC, Spain)
Philippe Lalanne (CNRS, France)
Jose A. Sanchez-Gil (IEM- CSIC, Spain)
Cefe Lopez ((ICMM-CSIC, Spain)
Hernan Miguez (ICMSE , Spain)
Lluis Marsal (Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Jaime Gomez Rivas (AMOLF,The Netherlands)
Jordi Martorell (ICFO, Spain)
Maria Ujue (ICFO, Spain)
Jorge Ripoll (FORTH, Greece)