Proceedings
ISBN: 978-85-63273-33-8

### Symposium M

#### Plasmonics and Photonics in Nanostructured Materials

Scope of the Symposium

For the last few decades, colloidal and plasmonic nanomaterials have gone from simple quantum dots and metallic nanoparticles to more complex nanostructures such as core/shell, plasmonic-semiconductor hybrids, etc. Those novel nanomaterials emerged not only as interesting new scientific curiosities but also as promising new platforms for the development of new technologies, expanding from clean and renewable energy, biosensors to medicine. The scope of the symposium is based on recent results of nanoparticles preparation for photonic and biophotonic applications, linear and nonlinear optics in nanocomposite materials, new concepts and fabrication methods of colloidal nanomaterials and plasmonic waveguides, new techniques for plasmon characterization, magnetic, structural and electronic properties using novel probing tools and engineering of new nanostructures.

Abstracts will be solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas

- Novel routes for dielectric and metallic nanoparticle preparation; engineering of new metallic nanoparticles for photonic devices
- Synthesis of quantum dots and other colloidal nanomaterials
- Plasmonics, hybrid metal-semiconductor nanostructures, and other heterostructures
- Optical characterization, spectroscopy, and non-linear optical properties
- Plasmonic waveguides
- Modeling and theoretical studies of electronic structures, transport, many-body effects
- Nanomaterials applied to biology, biophotonics, bioelectronics, and medicine
- Nanomaterial based devices: novel architectures, performance optimization

List of invited speakers

- Prof. Andrew Watt
  (University of Oxford)
- Dr. Hunter McDaniel
  (UbiQD)
- Dr. Wan Ki Bae
  (KIST)
- Prof. Marina Leite
  (University of Maryland)
- Euclydes Marega Junior
  (Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Fisica de São Carlos)
- Christiano Jose Santiago de Matos
  (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, MACGRAPHE)
- Isabel Cristina dos Santos Carvalho
  (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Centro Tecnico, Departamento de Fisica)
- Lauro June Queiroz Maia
  (Universidade Federal de Goias, Instituto de Fisica)
- Pierre François Brevet
  (Institut Lumière Matière)

Symposium Organizers

- Lazaro A. Padilha (UNICAMP)
- Luciana Reyes Pires Kassab (Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo, Laboratorio de > Tecnologia em Materiais Fotônicos e Optoeletrônicos)
- Zakya H. Kafafi (Lehigh University)
- Diogo Burigo Almeida (University of Michigan)
- Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo (Universidade Federal Pernambuco, Departamento de Fisica)