Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings. Volume 797. Held in Boston, Massachusetts, December 2-4 2003. Engineered Porosity for Microphotonics and Plasmonics

摘要

Symposium W, 'Engineered Porosity for Microphotonics and Plasmonics,' held December 2-A at the 2003 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, combined the areas of optical nanoparticles, microphotonics, photonics crystals and the emerging field of plasmonics. The program started with a review and recent advances in the understandings of porous silicon the famous light- emitting silicon sponge which caused a real hype in the beginning of the YOs New results and first devices in the area of photonic crystals have been presented and caused very stimulating discussions. The understanding of the photonic crystal properties also resulted in new insight in the classical area of ridge waveguides, and new designs were proposed. Finally, the emerging field of plasmonics caused a lot of attraction and will possibly lead in the future to further exciting and well-attended workshops. This volume represents 50% of the presentations and gives a very good overview of the symposium. Financial support by the AFOSR is gratefully acknowledged. The editors would also like to thank all of the invited speakers for their excellent presentations, the participants for their contributions and questions, and the referees for their work.