The UNC Charlotte Center for
Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

Fifth Annual Symposium

Friday, October 27, 2006   8:00am - 5:00pm

Held in The New Applied Physics and Optics Building at 132 Grigg Hall

8:00

Coffee and Networking

8:30

Mike Fiddy: Introductions and UNC-C Photonics “Info-mercials”

8:50

Jordan Poler CNT-FET based sensors

9:00

Yasin Raja/ M. Khizar AlGaN-based DUV LEDs

9:10

Tsing-Hua Her Conformal nanostructures

9:20

Mona Mayeh/Faramarz Farahi MMI devices

9:30

Paulo Batoni/Ed Stokes UV LED program update

9:40

Mohammad Ali Hasan Monolithic integrated detector

Break

10:10

Vasily Astratov Coupled spherical microcavities

10:20

Tom Suleski Interferometric lithography

10:30

Pat Moyer Spectroscopy with nanoholes

10:40

Tom Schmedake Colloidal SiO2 sensors

10:50

Ray Tsu (25 mins) Interaction of CdSe/ZnS quantum
dots with the matrix structure and each other

Break

11:30

Jeff Conley: Carolinas Photonics Initiative

Presentations by Partner Optics Centers:

Clemson (George Chumanov); Duke (Tuan Vo-Dinh); NCSU (Mark Johnson); WCU (Ken Burbank)

12:45

Lunch

2:00

Prof. Nirmal Bose, Penn State Distinguished Professor
Superresolution with a large field of view for microminiaturized imaging systems

Break

3:15

Dr. Michael Lebby, President and CEO, Optoelectronics Industry Association

4:30

Reception, networking and opportunity to meet Carolinas Photonics Cluster industry visitors