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Call for Papers / MRS Symposium J
Negative
Index Materials ─ From Microwave to Optical
Session
Topics | Joint Session | Tutorial | Invited
Speakers | Organizers | Abstract
Submission
The idea of negative refractive index was
analyzed over 30 years ago by Victor G. Veselago. This remained
a mathematical curiosity until, in the year 2000, David R.
Smith fabricated and demonstrated for the first time a material
exhibiting negative index of refraction at microwave frequencies.
The scientific breakthrough has brought tremendous momentum
to this field of research. The properties of negative refractive
index materials are now the subject of numerous investigations
over a broad spectrum range, from microwave to optical frequencies.
This symposium will bring together key scientists and research
teams from all around the world to exchange ideas and discuss
the fascinating physics of negative index materials. Together
they will assess the state of the art of this new and fascinating
domain of research and brainstorm on fabrication and implementation
of negative index materials in practical devices.
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Session
Topics
Topics
addressed in this symposium will include, but not be limited
to:
Theory
and New Physics
- Encompass
both left-handed material (negative μ and ε)
and periodic structure-mediated negative
refractive effect
- Anomalous Doppler effect, tunneling time, and lateral
displacement
- The role of chirality in NIM
- Loss and dispersion
Novel Fabrication Techniques
- The path to high-frequency (THz to Optical) NIMs
- Left-handed material-based assemblies and systems
- Periodic structure-based assemblies and systems
- Postprocessing: annealing, polishing, laser smoothing,
and wavelength tuning
Development of Characterization Methodology
- Structural and electronic/microwave/optical properties,
defects, impurities, metastability
Device and Applications
- Subwavelength imaging
- Innovative applications incorporating
negative index material and integration with conventional
devices and circuits
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Joint Session
The symposium is being planned
for four to six half-day sessions of oral presentations
and two evening poster sessions. A joint session is anticipated
with Symposium K: Materials Research for THz Applications,
and possibly other symposia. |
Tutorial
A tutorial
complementing this symposium is tentatively planned. Further
information will be included in the program that will be
available in January. (Find out more about the tutorial
sessions planned for this meeting.)
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Invited
Speakers
Valerie Browning (DARPA), Christophe Caloz (Ecole
Polytechnique, Canada), George V. Eleftheriades (Univ. of
Toronto, Canada), Nader Engheta (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Duncan
M. Haldane (Princeton Univ.), Sailing He (Zhejiang Univ.,
China), Tatsuo Itoh (Univ. of California-Los Angeles), Ekmel
Ozbay (Bilkent Univ., Turkey), Min Qiu (Royal Inst. of Technology,
Sweden), Vladimir Shalaev (Purdue Univ.), Gennady Shvets (Univ.
of Texas-Austin), David R. Smith (Duke Univ.), Costas M. Soukoulis
(FORTH, Greece, and AMES), Victor G. Veselago (Moscow Inst.
of Physics and Technology, Russia), Xiang Zhang (Univ. of
California-Berkeley), and Richard Ziolkowski (Univ. of Arizona). |
Symposium
Organizers
Shih-Yuan
(SY) Wang
Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories
Quantum Science Research
MS 1123, 1501 Page
Mill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1100
Tel 650 - 857 - 3111
Fax 650 - 813 - 3312
sywang@hp.com
Nicholas Xuanlai Fang
University
of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign
Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial
Engineering
MC-244, 158 Mechanical Engineering Bldg.
1206 W. Green
St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel 217-265-8262
Fax 217-244-6534
nicfang@uiuc.edu
Lars Thylen
Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH), Dept. of Microelectronics & Information
Technology
S-164 40 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel 46-8-7904050
Fax 46-8-7904090
lthylen@imit.kth.se
M.
Saif Islam
University
of California-Davis
Dept. of Electrical & Computer
Engineering
3139 Kemper Hall
Davis, CA 95616-5294
Tel 530-754-6732
Fax 530-752-8428
saif@ece.ucdavis.edu
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