Advance Program:
Conference Information:
This topical meeting will provide a forum for those
researchers who wish to progress the field of organic media as the
basis for the generation, detection, transport, and manipulation
of optical fields. Media and devices to be considered will include:
photorefractive polymers, photovoltaics, organic lasers and LEDs,
liquid crystals and novel anisotropic dielectrics and metamaterials.
Technologies for high resolution structures using molecular self
assembly, state of the art lithographic processes (including nanoimprint
lithography), and micromachining have led to new device concepts
such as photonic crystals and other metamaterial nanostructures.
Application areas which benefit from the low cost of fabrication
include information technology, telecommunications, environmental
monitoring, biomedical science and instrumentation, multimedia, and
display.
The meeting will provide intellectual and technological
exchange between scientists, engineers and technologists in organic
electrooptics, surface interactions, composite media (metallic
nanoparticles, carbon and silicon nanotubes), geometric and orientational
interactions, functionalised media, nonlinear optics, and guided
wave optics. In particular, the interaction among chemists, material
scientists and optical engineers will be fostered by encouraging
contributions in the areas of molecular modelling, and photochemistry.
