International Conference Organic nanophotonics

St. Petersburg, June 21–28, 2009

 
 

Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Russian Foundation for Basic Research       Russian Academy of Sciences

Saint-Petersburg State University    

St.Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

Photochemistry Center RAS       Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS

Consortium “Organic Nanophotonics”

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENÑE

“ORGANIC NANOPHOTONICS”

(ICON-RUSSIA 2009)

June 21-28, 2009

General Chairman Prof. M. Alfimov

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

  • Fundamental principles of design of new organic and hybrid nanostructured materials for information technologies, sensory, conversion and storage of light energy.

  • Development of organic and hybrid electroluminescence devices, solar batteries, photodetectors, optical sensor systems, nanostructured optical fibers, optoelectronic devices, nonlinear optical transducers, devices based on photonic crystals and metamaterials, optical memory media, organic field-effect transistors and molecular electronic devices.

  • New theoretical methods for investigations of nanomaterials and nanophotonic devices, including methods of multiscaled computer simulation.

  • New experimental methods of investigation and diagnostics of nanosystems and nanomaterials for organic nanophotonics.

In the framework of the Conference two Symposia will be held:

MOLECULAR PHOTONICS dedicated to academician A.N. Terenin

  • Optical spectroscopy and luminescence of supramolecular and heterogeneous systems

  • Electron and energy transfer in molecular systems

  • Gas-phase photoprocesses

  • Heterogeneous photocatalysis

  • Photochemical processes in molecular and supramolecular systems

  • Photochromic effect

  • Model photosynthetic systems

  • Photonics of biological molecules and origin of life

  • Applied molecular photonics

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF NANOPHOTONICS

  • Basic principles of nanoparticle design and control of their properties. Design of nanosized and nanoporous structures by self-organization and self-assembly methods

  • Optical properties of nanostructures and nanoparticles

  • Effects of interaction of light with nanostructures and nanoparticles

  • Nature of nanosize effects