METANANO 2020

V International Conference on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics

FULL FINAL PROGRAM (upd. September 17)

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METANANO 2020

General information

For the last several years the METANANO conference has acquired a strong reputation among the scientists and is attracting more and more participants every year from different scientific fields from fundamental research in Photonics and Plasmonics to business-oriented projects in RF technologies, Bionanotechnologies and Solar Energy.
The conference is organized by the Department of Physics and Engineering of ITMO University and supported by the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics.

The safety of our participants is a priority, so with the COVID-19 pandemic METANANO 2020 is moved fully online this year. We will appreciate your active participation. We truly hope that we will be able to make the conference useful and pleasant for the community despite everything.
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METANANO Organizing Committee is committed to enhancing diversity and promoting equality of opportunities among the speakers, session chairs, participants, organizers and committees, and to support and promote a culture that actively values difference and recognizes that people from different backgrounds and experiences can bring valuable insights to the event.
We aim to be an inclusive conference, committed to providing equal opportunities to the researchers of all backgrounds and career stages working in our field and allowing people to participate meaningfully in the event, actively engage in discussions and feel included in both the scientific program and social activities. You can find the METANANO Equality and Diversity Statement here.

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PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION

Submission of conference paper

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Conference Format

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Language

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Proceedings publication

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The final versions of the Conference Proceedings will be published in AIP Conference Proceedings indexed in Scopus and WoS.

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Proceedings

publication

TOPICS

Quantum Photonics

Plasmonics and Nanophotonics

Photonic Crystals

Bionanophotonics

Nanomaterials and Nanoengineering

Metasurfaces and their applications

Nonlinear Optics

Physics of Excitons

Nanoantennas and Nanocircuits

Solar Energy

THz Technologies

Imaging and Sensing

Acoustic and Elastic Metamaterials

Microwave and Optical Metamaterials

Emerging Applications

Medical Applications

Topics

PLENARY SPEAKERS

PLENARY

SPEAKERS

Maryna Bodnarchuk

FEDERICO CAPASSO

Harvard University

USA

SHANHUI FAN

Stanford University

USA

NADER ENGHETA

Mathias Fink

Langevin Institute, ESPCI Paris

France

Päivi Törmä

Aalto University

Finland

Isabelle STAUDE

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE

SPEAKERS

Javier Aizpurua

RAMÓN ÁLVAREZ PUEBLA

ICREA / URV

Spain, Catalonia

Peter Baum

Universität Konstanz

Germany

Nicolas Bonod

Igal Brener

Sandia National Laboratories

USA

KURT BUSCH

Humboldt University of Berlin

Germany

Rémi Carminati

Giulio Cerullo

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Darrick Chang

ICFO - the Institute of Photonic Sciences

Spain

Zhigang Chen

Stefan Enoch

Institut Fresnel

France

Maria Farsari

IESL-FORTH

Greece

Vladimir Fedin

JOCHEN FELDMANN

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Germany

Harald Giessen

University of Stuttgart

Germany

Jean-Jacques Greffet

Gilad Haran

Weizmann Institute of Science

Israel

Ortwin Hess

Imperial College London

SATOSHI IWAMOTO

The University of Tokyo

Japan

Fedor Jelezko

Ulm University

Germany

Mikael Käll

Chalmers University of Technology

Sweden

Alexander Khanikaev

City College of New York

USA

Martin Koch

Philipps-Universitaet Marburg

Germany

Maksym Kovalenko

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

Thomas Krauss

University of York

Stefan Maier

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Germany

Albert Nasibulin

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Russia

Jack Tzs-Fai Ng

Southern University of Science and Technology

China

Mihail Noginov

Norfolk State University

USA

Sang-Hyun Oh

University of Minnesota

USA

Willie Padilla

Duke University

USA

Theo Rasing

Radboud University Nijmegen

The Netherlands

Arno Rauschenbeutel

Humboldt University of Berlin

Germany

Carsten Rockstuhl

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

Daniel Sievenpiper

University of California San Diego

USA

Yanlin Song

Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Round table discussion on
"Gender Diversity in Science"

Round table

discussion

Join the round table discussion regarding gender diversity in science.

Despite the fact that there is significant progress in reaching gender balance and increasing women representatives in many aspects of STEM, we are still at the beginning of a long way. We hardly can change all the world, but at least we can use the opportunity and platform of the international conference to raise this topic publicly and talk about the invaluable contribution women bring to the community, praise their success, and motivate young girls to pursue careers in STEM.

We truly believe that this discussion will be useful and important to the majority of the participants and even wider.

TOPICS:

Dr. Daria Kozlova,
"Beyond gender equality: ITMO's progress drivers"

Dr. Sylvie Lebrun,
"Short testimony of a French woman researcher in a men's world"

Dr. Alexandra Kalashnikova,
"Let's start from a simple handshake..."

Dr. Viktoriia Rutckaia,
"Should I stay or should I go?"

Ann-Katrin U. Michel

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

Daria Kozlova

ITMO University

Russia

Sylvie Lebrun

Institut d'Optique Graduate School

France

Alexandra Kalashnikova

Ioffe Institute of RAS

Russia

Viktoriia Rutckaia

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

Germany

Ekaterina Berseneva

STEMM Global Community, University of Exeter

INVITED SPEAKERS

Speaker	Talk
Pablo Albella University of Cantabria Spain	Low-loss Tuneable Chiral Nano-Enhancers: direct application in (Bio-) sensing
Tomasz Antosiewicz University of Warsaw Poland	Plexcitons at the nanoscale – toward single-molecule ultrastrong coupling
Viktar Asadchy Stanford University USA	Materiatronics: Modular analysis of arbitrary meta-atoms
Sidhi Assawaworrarit Stanford University USA	Efficient and Robust Wireless Power Transfer based on Parity-Time Symmetry
Juan Domingo Baena Doello Universidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia	Broadband Uniaxial Dielectric-Magnetic Metamaterials with Giant Anisotropy Factor: Analytical Model and Numerical Retrieval of Constitutive Parameters
Guillaume Baffou Institut Fresnel / CNRS France	Discerning between photothermal and hot-carrier processes in plasmonics
Alexey Basharin National University of Science and Technology MISiS / Scientific and Technological Center of Unique Instrumentation RAS Russia	Scattering of multipoles in all- dielectric particles: electric and toroidal separation in far-field
Vladimir Belotelov Russian Quantum Center / Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Russia	Advanced plasmonic structures based on Au nanogratings on antiferromagnets
Evgeni Bezus Image Processing Systems Institute — Branch of the Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics” of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Samara National Research University Russian Federation	Bound states in the continuum in integrated ridge structures on dielectric slab waveguide and Bloch surface wave platforms
Madhu Bhaskaran RMIT University Australia	Utilising strain and mechanical tuning for next generation optical devices
Konstantin Bliokh RIKEN Japan	A New Spin for Acoustics
Dmitry Bykov Image Processing Systems Institute — Branch of the Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics” of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Samara University Russian Federation	Bound states in the continuum in multi-wave Fabry–Pérot interferometers
Luca Carletti University of Brescia / University of Padova Italy	Boosting nonlinear nanophotonics by bound states in the continuum
MICHELE CELEBRANO Politecnico di Milano Italy	Enhancing and manipulating harmonic generation in individual dielectric nanoantennas
Hong Chen Tongji University China	Wireless Power Transfer Based on Parity-Time Symmetric Model
Alexander Chernov Russian Quantum Center / Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Russian Federation	Magnetic photonics in 1D and 2D iron garnet nanostructures
Joel Cox University of Southern Denmark Denmark	Unconventional nonlinear optical phenomena in graphene nanoplasmonics
Kenneth Crozier University of Melbourne Australia	Detector-Only Spectrometer Comprising Photodetectors with Tailored Responsivities and a Reconstruction Algorithm
Francisco Cuesta Aalto University Finland	Coherent Retroreflective Sheets
Marco Di Liberto Université Libre de Bruxelles Belgium	Linear and nonlinear Aharonov-Bohm caging
Maria Donato CNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, V. le F. Stagno D’Alcontres 37, I-98158 Messina, Italy Italy	Optical forces for materials and metamaterials
Leonid Doskolovich Image Processing Systems Institute — Branch of the Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics” of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Samara National Research University Russian Federation	All-dielectric filters with a Butterworth line-shape composed of several resonant structures
Marc Dubois Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale, Marseille / Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille France	Radiofrequency shimming with fractal metasurface pads in a 7T birdcage coil
Ariel Epstein Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel	Versatile metagratings for efficient manipulation of scattered, waveguided, and radiated fields
Andrey Evlyukhin Leibniz Universitat Hannover Germany	Bianisotropy and light trapping in all-dielectric metasurfaces with optical resonances
Vladimir Fedin Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS Russian Federation	Design and Multifunctional Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks
Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany	Directional coupling of emitters into waveguides: Symmetry mechanisms and the roles of angular momentum and handedness
Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Spain	Plasmon-Exciton Coupling Beyond the Two-Level-System Approximation
Jose Garcia-Guirado ETH Zürich Switzerland	Silicon nano-photonics for biomolecular sensing
Aran Garcia-Lekue Donostia International Physics Center Spain	Towards spintronic devices using graphene nanostructures
Denis Garoli Italian Institute of Technology Italy	Novel Plasmonic Nanocavities for Optical Trapping-Assisted Biosensing Applications
Elodie Georget-Paris Multiwave Imaging SAS France	New invisible silicon carbide based dielectric MRI pads for 7T brain imaging
Davit Ghazaryan Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology / The University of Manchester Russian Federation	Van der Waals Heterostructures based on few-layer CrBr3
Pavel Ginzburg Tel Aviv University / ITMO University / Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Israel	Optical and Optomechanical properties mesoporous nanocapsules for targeted drug delivery applications
Pavel Ginzburg Tel Aviv University / Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Israel	Partially coherent radar for automotive applications
Su-Hyun Gong Department of Physics, Korea University South Korea	Valley–selective exciton–photon coupling in 2D semiconductors
Xin Guo Zhejiang University China	Chalcogenide glass microfibers for mid-infrared photonic applications
Lucia Hackermueller University of Nottingham United Kingdom	Integrating cold atoms into optical waveguides
John Ho National University of Singapore Singapore	Metamaterials for Bioelectronic Therapies and Diagnostics
John Ho National University of Singapore Singapore	Metamaterials for Bioelectronic Therapies and Diagnostics
Peter Hommelhoff Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Germany	Photonics-based particle acceleration: toward the accelerator on a chip
Silvio Hrabar University of Zagreb Croatia	Non-Foster Self-oscillating Radiators for Application in Electromagnetic Metasurfaces
Satoshi Ishii National Institute for Materials Science Japan	Transition metal nitrides and transition metal carbides for photoelectric and photothermal conversions
Satoshi Ishii National Institute for Materials Science Japan	Transition metal nitrides and transition metal carbides for photoelectric and photothermal conversions
Jian-Hua Jiang Soochow University China	Higher-order topological metamaterials for photonics and acoustics
Aisling Johnson Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna / Atominstitut, TU Wien Austria	Observation of collective superstrong coupling of cold atoms to a 30-m long optical resonator
Alexandra Kalashnikova Ioffe Institute Россия	Laser-driven magnetization precession and spin waves in magnetic multilayers
Ofer Kfir University of Gottingen Germany	Controlling free electrons with optical whispering-gallery modes
Radoslaw Kolkowski AMOLF The Netherlands	Trapping light in resonant metasurfaces for plasmon lasing
Maciej Krawczyk Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Poland	Selected studies toward exploitation nonreciprocity and spin-wave dynamics in magnonics
Do-Hoon Kwon University of Massachusetts Amherst USA	Modulated Reactance Surfaces for Efficient Plane Wave to Surface Wave Conversion
Andrei Lavrinenko Technical University of Denmark Denmark	New goals for an all-dielectric platform
Laura LECHUGA Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology España	Advanced Nanophotonic Biosensor Platforms for COVID-19 fast diagnostics at the Point-of-need
Jeng Yi Lee Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering, National Dong Hwa University Taiwan	Achieving Broadband invisible Objects by Interferometric Coherent Waves
Aleksandrs Leitis EPFL Switzerland	Dielectric metasurfaces for biochemical sensing and active wavefront control in the infrared
Giuseppe Leo Université de Paris France	Nonlinear holography in (2) dielectric metasurfaces
Dmitrii N. Maksimov LV Kirensky Institute of Physics, Krasnoyarsk, Russia / Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Russian Federation	Optical bistability with in-Gamma bound states in the continuum
Radu Malureanu Technical University of Denamrk Denmark	Fabrication of 20 nm period multilayer metal-dielectric structures and initial patterning tests
Sophie Meuret CEMES France	Ultra-fast nano-optic with a high brightness transmission electron microscope
Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa EPFL Switzerland	Theory and Applications of Time Modulation in Electromagnetic Systems
Fernando Moreno University of Cantabria Spain	UV plasmonics with either metallic or dielectric nanostructures. A comparison
Marine A.C. Moussu Multiwave Imaging / Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille France	Dielectric resonators for ultra high field MRI probes: theoretical approach and applications
Sile Nic Chormaic Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University	Nanostructured optical nanofibres for quantum optics
Nazar Nikolaev Institute of Automation and Electrometry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Federation	High-Performance Thin-Film Sensors Based on Terahertz Metasurface
Denis Novitsky B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Belarus	The exceptional points of non-Hermitian optical systems: Scattering matrix definition, coherent perfect absorption, and lasing
Nilufer Ozdemir Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Turkey	Efficient Analysis of High Impedance Metasurface with an Interstitial-Currents Approach
Nicolae Panoiu University College London United Kingdom	Nonlinear optical interactions of topological modes of plasmonic and photonic crystal structures
Ikmo Park Ajou University South Korea	Low-Profile Microwave Antennas Incorporated with Metasurfaces
Nicolas Pazos Perez Universitat Rovira i Virgili Spain	Tuning the optical response of plasmonic nanostars
Thomas Pertsch Friedrich Schiller University Jena Germany	Nano-sized Quantum Sources and Nonlinear Metasurfaces
Alexander Yu. Petrov Hamburg University of Technology Germany	Structural color with photonic glass
Gloria Platero Coello Instituto de Ciencia Der Materiales de Madrid, CSICCSIC Spain	Simulation of chiral topological phases in driven artificial atoms arrays
Andreas Rennings University of Duisburg-Essen Germany	Tackling the efficiency issue of millimeter-wave on-chip antennas of microstrip-type via periodic loading with radiative gaps
Junsuk Rho POSTECH Republic of Korea	Inverse design in nanophotonics using deep-learning
Ilya Rodionov Bauman Moskow State Technical University, BMSTU / Dukhov Automatics Research Institute Russian Federation	Hybrid silicon nitride photonics for quantum computing applications
Silvia Romano Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, National Research Council, Italy Italy	Hyperspectral Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence Imaging and Sensing via Resonant Trapped Radiation in All-Dielectric Metasurface
ALEXANDR SADOVNIKOV Saratov State University Россия	Magnon straintronics for tunable spin-wave transport with YIG/GaAs and YIG/PZT structures
Yuliya Semenova Technological University Dublin Ireland	Optical micro- and nanofiber multi-parameter sensors
Elena Semouchkina Michigan Technological University USA	All-dielectric artificial materials and structures as the media for advanced applications: from transformation optics-based devices to sensors and MRI probes
Tikhodeev Sergei Lomonosov Moscow State University and Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS Russia	Resonant states in photonics to control the efficiency and polarization of light emission and high harmonics generation
Frank Setzpfandt Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Germany	Resonant second-harmonic generation in structured molybdenum disulfide monolayers
Tigran Shahbazyan Jackson State University USA	Transition to strong coupling regime for quantum emitters coupled to a plasmonic resonator
Maxim Shcherbakov Cornell University / Lomonosov Moscow State University USA / Russian Federation	Shaping the spectrum of light with time-variant metasurfaces
Mario Silveirinha University of Lisbon - Instituto Telecomunicacoes Portugal	Ill-defined Topologies and Energy Sinks
Constantin Simovski ITMO University Finland	A Simple Glass Microsphere May Put the End to the Metamaterial Superlens Story
Daria Smirnova Australian National University Australia	Edge Solitons in the Nonlinear Dirac Model
Daria Smirnova Australian National University / Institute of Applied Physics of the RAS Australia / Russia	Multipolar analysis of second-harmonic generation in GaAs nanoparticles grown along different crystallographic directions
Alexander Solntsev University of Technology Sydney Australia	Optical Harmonic Generation in Layered Materials
Birgit Stiller Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light Germany	Coherent control of photon-phonon interactions
Meng Su Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences China	Self-assembling of nanomaterials via droplet manipulation for multifunctional optoelectronics devices
Andrey Sukhorukov The Australian National University Australia	Quantum and classical non-conservative photonics with dielectric metasurfaces
Giulia Tagliabue EPFL Switzerland	Plasmonic Hot Holes: Fundamentals and Devices
Nahid Talebi Christian Albrechts Universtät zu Kiel Germany	Structured light in interaction of electron beams with metasurfaces
Nahid Talebi Christian Albrechts Universtät zu Kiel Germany	Electron-light interactions beyond adiabatic approximations: on the relevance of selection rules
Vittorianna Tasco National Research Council, Nanotechnology Institute, Lecce, Italy Italia	Programming chiro-optical effects at optical frequency through helix nanostructures
Dmitry Tatarnikov Topcon Positioning Systems, LLC Russian Federation	Low Profile Dual-Band Pixel Patch Antennas
Ronny Thomale Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Bavaria	Topolectrical circuits
Mariia Timofeeva ETH Zürich Switzerland	Mechanically stretchable metamaterials based on III-V nanowires
Andreas Tittl Chair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany	Spectrally selective metasurfaces for enhanced sensing and optical phase control
Gleb Tselikov Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Russian Federation	Laser-ablation approaches for synthesis of novel anisotropic nanoparticles based on layered transition metal dichalcogenides for photonic applications
Odysseas Tsilipakos Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas Greece	Multiresonant metasurfaces for broadband spatiotemporal wave manipulation
Lucas Vazquez Besteiro Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique China / Canada	Theoretical Perspective on the Generation of Plasmonic Hot Carriers
Giorgio Volpe Department of Chemistry, University College London United Kingdom	Disorder-mediated optical self-assembly of colloidal structures
Christian Wolff University of Southern Denmark Denmark	Some caveats for strong coupling nanophotonic research
Alexander B Yakovlev Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi USA	Mantle Cloaking for Decoupling of Interleaved Phased Antenna Arrays in 5G Applications
Hyunsoo Yang National University of Singapore Singapore	Magnetization switching by magnon torques through an antiferromagnetic insulator NiO
Irena Zivkovic Electrical Engineering Department, Technical University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands The Netherlands	Transciever coils for UHF human body MRI

SPECIALSYMPOSIUM

Quantum.Metanano

Organizers:

Alexey Akimov

Dmitry Zuev

Ivan Iorsh

Alexandra Sheremet

Photonic quantum technology is an exciting and emerging field that is predominantly based on the unique properties provided by quantum mechanics, superposition and entanglement. Compared to respective classical approaches, quantum technologies not only have the potential to considerably enhance computational power, communication security, but also can be applied in interdisciplinary research including bio-marking, sensing, thermometry, etc.

The Symposium provides a platform for discussion of recent progress in development, experimental realization, application of single-photon sources and creation of collaboration for scientists from all over the world. Also symposium covers theoretical and experimental research in the following and related topics such as:
- advances in nanofabrication and circuit integration
- diamond nanophotonics
- new materials and concepts for quantum photonics
- control of quantum emitters and lifetime engineering
- quantum nonlinear phenomena
- quantum nanophotonics for biology applications
- quantum photonic devices for simulations, sensing, and communication
- quantum communications, networks, and metrology
- novel quantum technologies

SPECIAL SESSIONS

To enhance the impact of the METANANO conference series, researchers within the scope of the conference are invited to suggest Special Sessions. Proposals should be completed by using this template. Please submit your proposal by 16th December 2019 to Technical Programme Committee (TPC) Chair Dr. Mihail Petrov (m.petrov@metalab.ifmo.ru) and CC to Conference Secretary Ms. Anastasia Kaptsova (anastasia.kaptsova@metalab.ifmo.ru).

All proposals will be reviewed by TPC. The TPC will score and rank submitted proposals based on scientific quality, timeliness, and interest from the conference community. The session organizers will have an authority for accepting papers for their session which will not be subject to a regular review cycle. Proposers will be informed about the TPC decision two weeks after the proposal’s submission.

Optical Nanofibres – Fundamentals and Applications

Organizers:

Síle Nic Chormaic

Silvia Soria Huguet

Sylvie Lebrun

In recent years, optical nanofibers have shown their enormous potential in areas as diverse as sensing, photonics, atomic physics, particle manipulation, and quantum optics. While their use in some areas is reaching a certain level of maturity, there are still many fundamental aspects of light propagation within these waveguides coming to the fore, such as the unique polarisation properties and the chirality of photon coupling.

This session will be focussed on both fundamental and applied aspects of optical nano- (and micro-) fibres and will provide a dedicated platform for researchers to discuss recent advances in this area. The primary aim will be to enhance interdisciplinary applications, through discussion opportunities between young and senior scientists and engineers. The session targets researchers from several disciplines including physics, photonics, chemistry, biology, and engineering.

Strong Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic and Plasmonic Devices

Organizers:

Timur Shegai

Nicolas Stenger

Tailoring the interaction of light with matter is the cornerstone of modern photonics and plasmonics. The conventional approach is to couple a photonic or plasmonic cavity with light emitters such as atoms, quantum dots, organic molecules, and conventional or low-dimensional semiconducting materials hosting excitons. In the strong coupling regime - when the cavity field and the emitter(s) exchange energy at a rate faster than any losses in the system - light and matter hybridize to form new eigenstates states carrying simultaneously light-like and matter-like properties. These hybrid states enable the possibility to manipulate light and matter on an equal footage, thereby allowing the design of new devices for quantum information processing, sensing, metrology, polaritonic lasers, energy transfer and control over chemical reactions. These systems also offer unique opportunities to explore the fundamental properties of light-matter interactions from cryogenic to room temperature environments with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions at the true nanoscale.
In this Special Session we aim at bringing together scientists from the photonic and plasmonic communities working on strong light-matter interactions all over the world and to promote fruitful scientific exchanges and discussions.

Free-Electron-Driven Light-Matter Interaction

Organizers:

Ido Kaminer

Charles Roques-Carmes

Cathodoluminescence (CL) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) have become incredible characterization tools that provide an unprecedented combination of space, energy, and time resolutions for the characterization of nanophotonic materials. In parallel to that, recent advances in nanophotonics and electron microscopy have enabled the development of novel light-matter effects triggered by free electrons.

In this Special Session, we will discuss these two developments in parallel, with a special emphasis on novel effects and characterization techniques such as quantum CL, electron wavefront shaping, ultrafast electron microscopy, and free-electron-driven light sources.

New phenomena and applications for wireless power transfer

Organizers:

Polina Kapitanova

Mingzhao Song

Wireless Power Transfer is a technology finding its way into products. The fast development in the area is possible when academia and industry are strongly connected with each other. This session aims to provide a platform to stimulate intense communication among the researchers and engineers involved in WPT development. New phenomena, as well as improved WPT system designs for a broad range of practical applications, will be covered in the session. The works devoted to wireless power transmission and harvesting through near- and far-fields will be accepted.

Magnetic Photonics and Metamaterials

Organizers:

Sergey Nikitov

Andrei Slavin

The session brings together scientists interested in recent developments in studies ranging from spintronics, fundamental magnonic properties, and magnetodynamics to their application in the information technologies. Particular emphasis is placed on magnetic materials with modulated properties, which by analogy to photonic and plasmonic crystals have been labeled magnonic crystals. Currently, photons are used for information transport, electrons for processing and spins for storage. Future developments will require integration of these separate technologies.

The principal objective of the session is to consolidate the efforts of researchers working in the field of spintronics and magnonics in order to work out new concepts leading to the practical realisation of electro-opto-magnetic devices. Future challenges for this field of science will be identified, which will motivate younger researchers to follow the new pathways and perspectives. The event will be open to the cross-fertilization between the magnetic community and those of photonics, spin-orbitronics, spintronics and straintronics thus being useful in establishing new collaborations and providing a forum for scientific discussions within existing ones.

Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics

Organizers:

Andrey Rogach

Anvar Zakhidov

Sergey Makarov

Nanostructures and low-dimensional systems based on halide perovskites have recently emerged as promising materials not only for photovoltaics and optoelectronics, but for a number of advanced photonic applications. Recent studies of optical properties of halide perovskites suggest many opportunities for a design of nanophotonic devices due to the perovskites low-cost fabrication, relatively high values of the refractive index, existence of excitons at room temperatures, broadband bandgap tunability, high optical gain, and strong nonlinear response, as well as the simplicity of their integration with other types of optical and electronic architectures.

This Special Section provides a platform for researchers to discuss the recent progress in fundamentals and applications of the nanostructured halide perovskites.

Nanofabrication for optoelectronic applications

Organizers:

Ivan Mukhin

Young Joon Hong

Suklyun Hong

Modern nanoscale systems and semiconductor structures with low dimensions open new paths for study and development of optoelectronic devices with distinguished characteristics. Their fabrication, especially, on flexible or disposable substrates are very promising for such applications as wearable electronics, flexible touch screens and bright RGB displays, photodetectors and solar cells, consumer biosensors, MEMS and NEMS applications, HEMT transistors and functionalized nanoelectronic devices, etc. Nanofabrication is a core technology not only toward miniaturization of electronic/optoelectronic devices but also for finding new physical/chemical phenomena via the small size effect that can be applied to the next generation optoelectronics. However, their commercial promotion is impeded by technological bottlenecks and high-price fabrication process. We discuss the concept, limitation, challenge, innovation potential, and opportunities in the emerging nanofabrication technique. Thus, a combination of modern nanotechnology such as epitaxy, CVD and ALD methods, e-beam lithography, FIB and HIM milling, nanoimprinting, laser lithography and short pulse ablation, advanced polymer chemistry along with advanced method of nanocharacterization allow to develop and produce devices with intriguing properties, which can be implemented in real optoelectronic applications.

This special session provides a venue for researchers to discuss the recent progress of nanofabrication techniques for the synthesis of materials, characterization tools, and device processing that enables the development of new emerging optoelectronics applications.

Optomechanics and Optical Manipulation

Organizers:

Pavel Zemanek

Alexander Shalin

Manuel Marques

Opto-mechanics – the field of science studying mechanical action of light on material bodies possesses grandiose fundamental significance and drives a variety of practical applications in physics, biology, medicine etc. Optical micromanipulators, first introduced by A. Ashkin - 2018 year Nobel prize winner - paved a way to efficient non-invasive control over particles dynamics via focused laser beams. This investigation started the era of ‘optical tweezers’.

Recently, advances in opto-electronic and nano-technologies boosted the development of Opto-mechanics providing cutting edge abilities in manipulation on micro- and nano-scale. For example, holographic optical tweezers enable simultaneous manipulation of hundreds of particles; tractor beams provide additional degrees of freedom by attracting objects to a source of illumination; plasmonic tweezers mediate subwavelength self-organization of particles and their enhanced trapping, and plenty of other systems flexibly governing complex nano-structures.

Therefore, the main research focus of the Optomechanics and Optical Manipulation Special Session is on the up to date fundamental opto-mechanical phenomena, novel types of optical manipulators and optically driven micro- and nano-mechanical devices (NOMS), auxiliary structures for tweezing, optical binding and optical matter, applications of optomechanics in bio-physics and bio-medicine, etc.

All-Dielectric Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

Organizers:

Andrey Evlyukhin

Isabelle Staude

Andrey Miroshnichenko

Alexander Shalin

All-dielectric nanophotonics is a rapidly developing area of research due to the possibility to control and manipulate light scattering by high-index semiconductor nanoparticles. Mature fabrication techniques, developed for silicon technologies, enable realization of ambitious proposals that continue promoting the field. It opens a vast room of opportunities for designing novel types of nanoscale elements and devices and paves a way to advanced technologies of light energy manipulation. In particular, progress in all-dielectric metasurfaces and nanoantennas, new types of excitations, such as magnetic and toroidal modes and associated anapole states, ultrahigh-Q resonant modes, etc. promise replacing conventional bulky optical elements with nanometer-scale structures with enhanced functionality. Therefore, this section is to bring together up-to-date research on this topic from all over the world.

Advanced Systems for Applied Nanoscience

Organizers:

Mikhail Zyuzin

Valentin Milichko

Session aims to bring together researchers from different fields of science (biology, chemistry, and material science) to share their results. It took the initiation to engage the world-class experts from the academic platform, to discuss the advancements in the field of Material and Life Science. The results of these fruitful interdisciplinary collaborations can find real applications in the field of, for example, catalysis, drug delivery, sensing, genetics and others. The Advanced systems for applied nanoscience session will cover a wide variety of topics relevant for physicists, biologists, chemists, and engineers. So, come and join the interdisciplinary section with leading professionals at METANANO 2020 Conference in Tbilisi.

Bound States in the Continuum in Photonics

Organizers:

Yuri Kivshar

Andrey Bogdanov

Kirill Koshelev

Bound states in the continuum as nonradiating sources of energy have traditionally been studied in quantum mechanics and atomic physics while receiving a very little attention in the photonics community. This situation has changed recently due to a number of pioneering theoretical studies and remarkable experimental demonstrations of these exotic states of light in dielectric resonant photonic structures and metasurfaces, with the possibility to localize efficiently the electromagnetic fields of high intensities within small volumes of matter. These recent advances underpin novel concepts in nanophotonics, and provide a promising pathway to overcome the problem of losses usually associated with metals and plasmonic materials for the efficient control of the light-matter interaction at the nanoscale.

This Special Section aims to provide a platform for researchers to discuss the current progress in this young yet prominent research field with applications in both linear and nonlinear optics including but not limited to design of novel dielectric structures with high-Q resonances, nonlinear wave mixing and enhanced harmonic generation, as well as advanced concepts for lasing and biosensing.

Plasmonic nanostructures and hot carrier management

Organizers:

Alexander Petrov

Mihail Petrov

Plasmonic oscillations in nanostructures and metamaterials bare a potential of efficient conversion of light into current and vice versa. For the structure sizes and hot spots smaller than electron mean free path significant influence of the electronic states and optical fields at the surface of plasmonic material are expected. Understanding and optimization of these processes should allow approaching double digit conversion efficiency

This session aims to discuss the mechanisms of efficient hot carrier extraction from damped plasmonic oscillations, but also the opposite process of inelastic electron tunneling which generates plasmonic oscillations. Providing the exchange between these two research fields should lead to a better understanding of the involved mechanisms. Also, the study of the surface effects, reduction of nanostructure sizes, optimization of nanostructure geometries and new plasmonic materials are in the scope of this session.

The session covers following topics:

Hot electrons and hot holes
Photoemission from nanostructures
Photodetection at metal-semiconductor interface
Inelastic electron tunneling
Surface damping
Chemical interface damping
New nanostructures for hot carrier management (1D, 2D, 3D)
New plasmonic materials for hot carrier management

Graphene and 2D Materials

Organizers:

Valentyn Volkov

Aleksey Arsenin

Special session on Graphene and 2D Materials will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to share their experiences, the most recent results, and forthcoming challenges in the field of two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures. We aim to bring together experimentalists and theorists to review the current status of this burgeoning field, identify the crucial areas where progress can be made, and foster collaborations and partnerships to vigorously pursue these goals.

This technical session will cover a wide range of topics such as fundamental properties (experiments, theory, and simulations), synthesis/fabrication techniques and novel applications of 2D materials at the forefront of scientific knowledge (sensors, THz technologies, flexible electronics, energy harvesting and storage, biomedical, thermal management and other).

Topological states in classical and quantum systems

Organizers:

Daniel Leykam

Maxim Gorlach

During recent years topological properties have been uncovered and investigated in a wide range of physical systems from condensed matter physics to optics and acoustics. While all these areas employ different experimental techniques and theoretical approaches, in all cases the topology of the bands plays an essential role, and topological properties are manifested in the enhanced robustness to disorder and defects.
This session aims to gather the researchers with a diverse physical background to discuss the recent developments in topological physics including but not limited to higher-order topological states, topological lasers and topological states in nonlinear or non-Hermitian systems.

Nonlinear Nanophotonics

Organizers:

Costantino De Angelis

Maxim Shcherbakov

Nonlinear optics (NLO) is one of the key enabling technologies in photonics. The dependence of NLO response on either bulk or surface properties of matter has been exploited to characterize crystalline solids in material science, to study dynamics at interfaces, as well as to devise novel light sources and advanced sensing and bioimaging techniques. The generation of entangled photon pairs, which are the information basis of quantum computing and quantum cryptography, is another key asset related to these phenomena. Nanostructured materials bring a new twist to NLO, providing unprecedented freedom in shaping nonlinear responses on demand.

The Special Session on Nonlinear Nanophotonics will confront the main technological challenges to further boost photon conversion and nonlinear phenomena in highly confined volumes, tackling current challenges in telecommunications, quantum science, sensing and attosecond metrology.

Advanced nanophotonic sensing and spectroscopy

Organizers:

Andreas Tittl

Optical sensing approaches play a fundamental role in many scientific areas and have been particularly impactful for resolving interactions between multiple analytes in biochemical systems in-situ, in real-time and in a non-invasive manner. Recently, nanophotonic/plasmonic structures capable of controlling and amplifying light-matter interactions below the optical diffraction limit have extended this field towards ultimate sensitivities and new functionalities.

This session aims to bring together a diverse group of researchers from optics, materials science, surface chemistry and biology in order to explore recent developments in nanophotonic sensing and molecular spectroscopy, with a special focus on emerging metasurface-based techniques.

Terahertz Photonics

Organizers:

Sergei Kuznetsov

Miguel Beruete

Extending from 0.1 to 10 THz, the terahertz (THz) band of the electromagnetic spectrum has been experiencing rapid progress in the last decade stimulated by advancement in methods of THz generation and detection. Weakly developed in the past due to technological limitations, this spectral range attracts much interest both in fundamental and applied research owing to unique potentialities of THz waves unachievable for adjoining infrared and microwave domains.

This Special Session gathers together “terahertz scientists” to share and discuss recent results in the emerging field of THz photonics and metamaterial-inspired THz technologies. The session covers the topics of passive and active optical components, detectors, sensors, applications of photonic structures and others.

RF and Microwave Applications of Complex Electromagnetic Structures

Organizers:

Stanislav Glybovski

Redha Abdeddaim

Sergei Tretyakov

Every year the research on metamaterials and complex electromagnetic structures offers new fascinating opportunities for handling electromagnetic fields. Metamaterials today are not just a concept, but a powerful tool of developing new antennas, RF systems, microwave devices, and components. At this stage, joint efforts of physicists and engineers worldwide are highly demanded for building a new metamaterial-inspired technology improving state of the art. Our session is a platform to share recent results and ideas on various applications of such structures in the RF. The scope of the session covers but not limited to the following topics on devices whose operational principle is based on the use of metamaterials, metasurfaces, and complex periodic structures:

Antennas and antenna arrays;
Radiofrequency identification;
Navigation systems;
Passive and active microwave devices and components;
Quasi-optical components including anomalous reflectors;
Electromagnetic compatibility;
Simulation and measurement techniques.

Advanced Electromagnetic for MRI

Organizers:

Christopher Collins

Mikhail Zubkov

Georgiy Solomakha

Exploring the newly discovered and previously overlooked electromagnetic effects in the scope of magnetic resonance imaging applications has already provided a pathway for many novel scan techniques: better RF-coils, waveguide excitation, targeted teranostic agents, advanced shielding and more – all leading to higher diagnostic quality, safer examinations or reduced costs.

This session acts as an umbrella meeting for professionals both in electromagnetic research and MRI applications aiming to facilitate knowledge dissemination. This idea-rich environment is intended for further exchange of the MRI challenges and solutions as well as advances in EM theory and engineering that can potentially unlock new diagnostic possibilities.

Industrial

Organizers:

Andrey Sayanskiy

Alexey Slobozhanyuk

Every year the research on metamaterials and complex electromagnetic structures offers new fascinating opportunities for handling electromagnetic fields. Metamaterials today are not just a concept, but a powerful tool for developing new antennas, RF systems, microwave and optical devices, and various components. At this stage, joint efforts of physicists and engineers worldwide are highly demanded for building a new metamaterial-inspired device. Our section is a platform for combining industrial and academic environments where everyone can share their results on the applications of such materials in practice, as well as identify the challenges facing the industry that can be solved with the help of the academic community.

ORGANIZERS

Pavel Belov

General chair

Mihail Petrov

Tech. program committee chair

Anastasia Kaptsova

Conference secretary

Julia Kuznetsova

PR manager

Technical program Committee

Technical program

Committee

Redha Abdeddaim (France)

Alexey Akimov (USA)

Nicolas Bonod (France)

Costantino De Angelis (Italy)

Andrey Evlyukhin (Germany)

Pavel Ginzburg (Israel)

Stanislav Glybovski (Russian Federation)

Ivan Iorsh (Russian Federation)

Polina Kapitanova (Russian Federation)

Alexander Khanikaev (USA)

Yuri Kivshar (Australia)

Mikhail Lapine (Russian Federation)

Andrei Lavrinenko (Denmark)

Sergey Makarov (Russian Federation)

Andrey Miroshnichenko (Australia)

Alexander Petrov (Germany)

Carsten Rockstuhl (Germany)

Alexander Shalin (Russian Federation)

Alexey Shcherbakov (Russian Federation)

Maxim Shcherbakov (USA)

Alexandra Sheremet (Russian Federation)

Mário Silveirinha (Portugal)

Isabelle Staude (Germany)

Andreas Tittl (Germany)

Valentyn Volkov (Denmark)

Dmitry Zuev (Russian Federation)

Local committee

Local

Committee

Archil Prangishvili (Georgia)

Ia Trapaidze (Georgia)

Gela Goderdzishvili (Georgia)

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The scope of Advanced Optical Materials is dedicated to breakthrough discoveries and fundamental research in photonics, plasmonics, metamaterials, and more. The following is a non-exhaustive list of the topics covered in Advanced Optical Materials:

Photonic crystals
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Conference program

The Conference will be held online in live format using Zoom. To ensure a smooth conference, all the speakers (plenary, keynote, invited and oral) are kindly invited to book a slot for a short test session and get a quick brief from a technical committee member. At the end of each session, there will be networking rooms dedicated to the presenters (plenary, keynote, invited, oral) of the related session in order to continue the discussion over their presentations.
Poster sessions will be organized using individual Zoom rooms for presenters. Posters are available during the whole conference but the authors will be available for discussion only during the dedicated poster session (please refer to the program for more information). All e-posters will be uploaded prior to the conference and made available to conference delegates through the Poster area. Delegates will be able to browse through all e-posters, which will be grouped by day-session.

FULL FINAL PROGRAM (upd. September 17)

CONFERENCE

PROGRAM

IMPORTANT DATES

16 December 2019

Special Sessions Proposals

16 March 2020

Paper Submission Deadline

31 March 2020

Extended Paper Submission Deadline

10 May 2020

Grant Application Deadline

15 May 2020

Paper Acceptance Results

1 June 2020

Grant Application Results

15 June 2020

Revised Paper Submission Deadline

14 - 18 September 2020

METANANO 2020 Conference

METANANO 2020

V International Conference on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics

AIP Conference Proceedings

ONLINE | 14 - 18 September, 2020

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PLENARY SPEAKERS

Maryna Bodnarchuk

FEDERICO CAPASSO

SHANHUI FAN

NADER ENGHETA

Mathias Fink

Päivi Törmä

Isabelle STAUDE

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Javier Aizpurua

RAMÓN ÁLVAREZ PUEBLA

Peter Baum

Nicolas Bonod

Igal Brener

KURT BUSCH

Rémi Carminati

Giulio Cerullo

Darrick Chang

Zhigang Chen

Stefan Enoch

Maria Farsari

Vladimir Fedin

JOCHEN FELDMANN

Harald Giessen

Jean-Jacques Greffet

Gilad Haran

Ortwin Hess

SATOSHI IWAMOTO

Fedor Jelezko

Mikael Käll

Alexander Khanikaev

Martin Koch

Maksym Kovalenko

Thomas Krauss

Stefan Maier

Albert Nasibulin

Jack Tzs-Fai Ng

Mihail Noginov

Sang-Hyun Oh

Willie Padilla

Theo Rasing

Arno Rauschenbeutel

Carsten Rockstuhl

Daniel Sievenpiper

Yanlin Song

Round table discussion on"Gender Diversity in Science"

Ann-Katrin U. Michel

Daria Kozlova

Sylvie Lebrun

Alexandra Kalashnikova

Viktoriia Rutckaia

Ekaterina Berseneva

INVITED SPEAKERS

Pablo Albella

Tomasz Antosiewicz

Viktar Asadchy

Sidhi Assawaworrarit

Juan Domingo Baena Doello

Guillaume Baffou

Alexey Basharin

Vladimir Belotelov

Evgeni Bezus

Madhu Bhaskaran

Konstantin Bliokh

Dmitry Bykov

Luca Carletti

MICHELE CELEBRANO

Hong Chen

Alexander Chernov

Round table discussion on
"Gender Diversity in Science"