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Arrival & Registration
dinner
sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
Opening remarks
F. Capasso, G. Scamarcio, M. S. Vitiello, G. Benedek
Federico Capasso (Harvard University, USA)
“Flat Optics: from Metalenses to Structured Light”
Mikhail Belkin (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
“Nonlinear Intersubband Polaritonic Metasurfaces”
coffe break
Karl Unterrainer (TU Wien, Austria)
“Dynamics and non-linear effects of passive and active THz metamaterials”
Michele Tamagnone (Harvard University, USA)
“Mid-Infrared Sub-Wavelength Resonant Hexagonal Boron Nitride Polaritonic Nanoantennas”
lunch break and discussion time
Qijie Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
“Mid-infrared Optoelectronics in 2D Materials”
Alexei B. Kuzmenko (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
“Infrared and terahertz magneto-absorption and Faraday rotation in hBN/graphene/hBN heterostructures”
Benedikt Limbacher (TU Wien, Austria)
“Strong Light-Matter Interaction in Triple-Barrier Resonant Tunneling Diodes”
Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora (University of Sussex, UK)
“Photo-induced dynamic metasurfaces: route to all-optical control of THz emission from Black Silicon”
Marina Giordano (CNR-NANO, Pisa, Italy)
“Phase-resolved terahertz near-field nanoscopy”
dinner
sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
Dmitry Basov (Columbia University, USA)
“Quantum Materials: Insight from Infrared Nano Optics”
Luis Martin-Moreno (Inst. Ciencia de Materiales de Aragon-Zaragoza, Spain)
“Graphene plasmons: magneto-optical effects and scattering properties”
coffe break
Oleg Mitrofanov (University College of London, UK)
“Near-field probing of highly confined resonant THz fields”
Fritz Keilmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany)
“All-electronic THz Nanoscopy”
lunch break and discussion time
Tyler Cocker (Michigan State University, USA)
“Ultrafast photo-switching of interface polaritons in black phosphorus heterostructures”
Juliette Mangeney (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Paris, France)
“Mid-infrared photoresponse in hBN-encapsulated graphene”
Pierluigi Rubino (University of Leeds, UK)
“Coherent THz apertureless near-field microscopy based on self-mixing in QCLs”
Leonardo Viti (CNR-NANO, Pisa, Italy)
“Phase-sensitive terahertz imaging with room-temperature near-field nanodetectors”
Guy Matmon (University College of London, UK)
“2D-3D crossover in a dense electron liquid in silicon”
dinner
sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
Ralph Nuzzo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
“2D Nanomembrane Materials with Exemplary Applications in Quantitative Chemical Imaging and High Efficiency Photovoltaic Energy Conversion”
Luisa Torsi (University of Bari, Italy)
“Ultra-Low Detection Limits and Selectivity with Organic Bio-Electronic Sensors”
coffe break
Roisin Owens (University of Cambridge, UK)
“Bioelectronics in vitro: 3D, Biomimetic Devices and Cell Models”
Antonio Giorgini (CNR-INO, Italy)
“Surface Plasmon chemical sensors based on optical resonators: innovative methods for interrogation and readout”
lunch break and discussion time
Alberto Salleo (Stanford University, USA)
“Plastic Electrochemical Devices from Biosensors to Artificial Synapses”
Wojcieck Knap (University of Montpellier II & CNRS, France)
“New GaN FETs and Silicon Junctionless Field Effect Transistors as Terahertz Detectors”
Rosaria A. Picca (University of Bari, Italy)
“Investigation of the Stability of Organic Field Effect Transistors for Biosensing Applications”
Maria Josè Lo Faro (CNR-IMM, Italy)
“Enhanced Optical Properties of 2D Fractal Arrays of Silicon Nanowires”
R. Thomas Weitz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany)
“Non-Reversible Transition from Rhombohedral to Bernal Stacking in Multilayer Graphene promoted by Contact Patterning”
dinner
sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
Frank Koppens (ICFO - Barcelona, Spain)
“Probing quantum plasmonics and the ultimate limits of light compression with Van der Waals heterostructures”
Nikolay I. Zheludev (University of Southampton, UK)
“Classical and Quantum Photonics in 2D Matter in Standing Waves”
coffe break
Alessandro Molle (CNR-IMM, Agrate Brianza, Italy)
“Materials design the 2D level: from Xenes to anisotropic MoS2 nanosheets”
Kundan Chaudhary (Harvard University, USA)
“Enhanced In-plane Optical Anisotropy of Black Phosphorus by Phonon Polaritons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride”
EXCURSION
Visit to the archeological site of Selinunte (Selinus), an ancient Greek city in front of the Mediterranean sea, followed by a swimming and dinner at the nearby beach of Marinella.
dinner
sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
Andrea C. Ferrari (Cambridge Graphene Center, Cambridge, UK)
“Light Scattering and Emission from Hetero-structures”
Christoph Stampfer (Aachen University, Germany)
“Spin states in bilayer graphene quantum point contacts and quantum dots”
coffe break
Manfred Helm (HZDR, Dresden, Germany)
“Nonlinear THz Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Systems”
Sukhdeep Dhillon (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Paris, France)
“How to generate short THz pulses from Quantum Cascade Lasers”
lunch break and discussion time
Frank Hegmann (University of Alberta, Canada)
“Ultrafast Terahertz Scanning Tunneling Microscopy with Atomic Resolution”
Andreas J. Huber (neaspec GmbH, Germany)
“Near-field correlation nanoscopy for organic and inorganic material analysis”
Shun Okano (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
“The Influence of Field Effect Doping on the Optical and Electrical Properties of a Graphene Monolayer”
Andrea Ottomaniello (University of Pisa, Italy)
“Symmetry enhanced non-reciprocal polarization rotation in a THz metal-graphene metasurface”
Stefan Schlauderer (University of Regensburg, Germany)
“Lightwave valleytronics in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides”