Past Event Overview
SPIE Optics + Photonics, the largest international, multidisciplinary optical sciences and technology meeting in North America.
2012 Overview:• | News and photos from the 2012 meeting |
• | Final Technical Program (PDF) |
• | Exhibition Guide (PDF) |
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NanoScience + Engineering: 800 papers | Topics include metamaterials, plasmonics, carbon nanotubes, optical trapping, graphene, spintronics, nano-solar hydrogen, nano thin films, nanomaterials, nanoengineering, and nanobiosensing | ||
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Solar Energy + Technology: 200 papers | Topics include thin films, concentrators, reliability, solar hydrogen, next-generation cell technology, and materials processing | ||
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Organic Photonics + Electronics: 300 papers | Topics include OLEDs, OTFTs, OPVs, organic semiconductors, organic materials, liquid crystals, and large-scale fabrication | ||
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Optical Engineering + Applications: 1,500 papers | Topics include optical design, systems engineering, metrology, photonic devices, solid state lighting, x-ray FELs, gamma-ray and particle technologies, remote sensing, and atmospheric, and space optics | ||
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Plenaries, Special Events, Exhibition, Courses | |
• | Plenary presentations: 18 presentations from leading experts |
• | Special + technical events: more than 50 events: poster sessions, panel discussions, workshops, forums, welcome reception, annual awards banquet, student events, and more. |
• | Exhibition: 241 companies showed off their new products and technologies, there was an update on the National Academies 'Optics and Photonics' report, the Photonics for a Better World Pavilion had 6 companies making a difference in our world, and the SPIE Career Center had 7 companies recruiting. |
• | Courses + workshops: Training is an important investment in your company. It increases employee productivity, reduces turnover, improves job satisfaction, aids in the recruiting process, rewards long-time employees, helps connect research and commercialization knowledge. |
SPIE Optics + Photonics - Advancing nanoscience, optical engineering, organic photonics, and solar energy research.
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