SPIE Smart Nano+Micro Materials and Devices, a multidisciplinary forum that advanced research in the global use of microfabrication and nanofabrication technologies, was held in Melbourne, Australia, 4-7 December, 2011.
Microscale and nanoscale research enables promising new materials and applications across many fields including air/water/food quality, energy, security, and medicine.
More than 140 presentations were made
Devices: | • | Solar cells |
| • | Optical storage: memories, slow light |
| • | Plasmonics |
| • | THz applications |
| • | MEMS/NEMS |
| • | On-chip communications |
| • | Lab-on-a-chip: micro-/nano-fluidics |
| • | Bionic applications: vision aid, bionic-eye |
Methods: | • | Microscopies/nanoscopies/superresolution |
| • | Sensing: water/food/medicine/security |
| • | Laser processing of materials |
Fundamentals (Tutorials): | • | Light-matter interaction |
| • | Plasmonics |
| • | Lightwaves (solitons, rough waves, nonlinearities) |
Materials: | • | Metamaterials |
| • | New materials for-photonics/by-photonics |
| • | Biomimetic materials/engineering |
Emerging Topics/Global Problems: | • | Monitoring of global warming: ozone depletion, flood warning systems |
| • | Water/food quality |
| • | Early cancer detection |
Special Sessions: | • | Lighting revolution: all solid-state LED/OLED lighting |
| • | Teaching of physics |
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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| • | Saulius Juodkazis, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne Univ. (Australia) |
| • | Min Gu, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne Univ. (Australia) |