Photonic Materials & Devices

Symposium Chair

Loucas Tsakalakos
Technology Platform Leader
GE Global Research

Key Speakers

Chemical and Biological Sensing on the AIM Photonics Platform
Benjamin L. Miller
Professor, Academic Lead, AIM Photonics, University of Rochester Medical Center

Integrated Electro-Photonics Design Platform - A multi-physics, multi-fabrics system design solution
Gilles S.C. Lamant
Distinguished Engineer, Cadence Design Systems

Addressing the electrical I/O bottleneck with CMOS optical I/O
Alexandra Wright-Gladstein
Co-Founder and CEO, Ayar Labs, Inc.

Symposium Sessions
	Monday May 14
10:30	Photonics Devices
1:30	Photonics Materials
	Tuesday May 15
1:30	Photonics Sensors
4:00	Photonic Materials & Devices: Posters

Symposium Program
	Monday May 14

10:30	Photonics Devices	262 C
	Session chair: Loucas Tsakalakos, GE Global Research, US
10:30	Addressing the electrical I/O bottleneck with CMOS optical I/O (invited presentation) A. Wright-Gladstein, Ayar Labs, Inc., US
10:55	Fabrication of Field-Sequential Color Display Using Predesigned Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals C-Y Liu, Y-S Zhange, J-H Liu, UC Berkeley, US
11:15	Ferroelectric Mid-IR Integrated Photonics Using Epitaxial Barium Titanate Thin Films P.T. Lin, Texas A&M University, US
11:35	Design of 160-Channel Si3N4 based AWG-Spectrometer for Medical Applications D. Seyringer, C. Burtscher, J. Edlinger, A. Maese-Novo, P. Muellner, R. Hainberger, J. Kraft, G. Koppitsch, G. Meinhardt and M. Sagmeister, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, AT
11:55	Mobile holographic sensor for the detection of herpes simplex virus A. Ray, M. Daloglu, J. Ho, E. McLeod, A. Ozcan, University of California Los Angeles, US
12:15	Integrated Electro-Photonics Design Platform - A multi-physics, multi-fabrics system design solution. (invited presentation) G. Lamant, Cadence Design Systems, US

1:30	Photonics Materials	262 C
	Session chair: Loucas Tsakalakos, GE Global Research, US
1:30	Electrochemical Nanoimprinting of Silicon: A Direct Patterning Approach B. Azeredo, Arizona State University, US
1:50	Plasmonic metasurfaces with tunable gap and collective SPR modes M. Haftel, C. Eagan, A.O. Pinchuk, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, US
2:10	Giant Enhancement of the Chiro-Optic Response of Chiral Plasmonic Media using Structured Light I.V.A.K. Reddy, V. Sukhotskiy, A. Baev, E.P. Furlani, P.N. Prasad, J.W. Haus, University at Buffalo SUNY, US
2:30	Numerical Modelling of a Sinusoidal Grating-Based Surface Plasmon Coupled Emission Biosensor V. Sukhotskiy, N.C. Cady, I.V.A.K. Reddy, E.P. Furlani, University at Buffalo SUNY, US
2:50	Real-Time Density Functional Tight Binding: A New Computational Tool for Probing Electronic Properties of Plasmonic Systems N.V. Ilawe and B.M. Wong, University of California, Riverside, US
	Tuesday May 15

1:30	Photonics Sensors	251 A
	Session chair: Martin E. Poitzsch, Aramco Research Center, US; Loucas Tsakalakos, GE Global Research, US
1:30	Photonics & Sensing at GE Global Research (invited presentation) L. Tsakalakos, GE Global Research, US
1:55	Chemical and Biological Sensing on the AIM Photonics Platform (invited presentation) B. Miller, University of Rochester Medical Center, US
2:20	Magnetic Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Composite Nanoparticles for In-situ Optical Sensing and Nanoprobes Applications S. Chang, S. Eichmann, W. Yun, M. Poitzsch, W. Wang, Aramco Research Center–Boston, US
2:40	SERS Detection of DNA-Bound Methylthioninium Chloride on Gold Coated Substrates. M.R. Shattique, M. Stepanova, Missouri State University, US
3:00	Computational sensing with mobile optical readers designed by machine learning Z.S. Ballard, D. Shir, A. Bhardwaj, S. Bazargan, S. Sathianathan, A. Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles, US
3:20	Deep Learning Improves Smartphone Microscopy Using a Convolutional Neural Network Y. Rivenson, H. Ceylan Koydemir, H. Wang, Z. Wei, Z. Ren, H. Günaydın, Y. Zhang, Z. Göröcs, K. Liang, D. Tseng, A. Ozcan, UCLA, US

4:00	Photonic Materials & Devices: Posters	Expo Hall
	Resuable Moth-Eye nano-patterned PDMS sticker with a versatile function of coating for photovoltaics. A. Jung, S. Cho, H. Kim, H.Y. Lee, Y.H. Ghymn, SOOMBI Co., Ltd., KR
	Effects of Heat Treatment of ZnS Nanoparticles Prepared by Hydrothermal Synthesis on Microstructure and Optical Properties in Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) Y.W. Hong, S.Y. Yeo, J.H. Paik, J.H. Cho, Y.H. Jeong, J.S. Yun, W.I. Park, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering & Technology, KR
	Fabrication of Tapering Optical fiber coated with Chitosan-Gold nanoparticles and Application to SERS-based Biosensor H-S Yoon, I-J Kang, Gachon University, KR
	Visible-Blind Ultraviolet Photodetectors Based on NiO/ZnO NRs with Poly-(N-vinylcarbazole) Intermediate Layer D-W Huang, H-P Lin, D-C Perng, National Cheng Kung University, TW

This symposium is focused on novel photonic technologies and materials, and their use in the commercial space for various advanced applications. The symposium highlights industrial applications of photonics as well as emerging technologies within the research community that are poised to make the transition from the lab to applications. The event connects scientist and engineers around the country and world working in photonics or adjacent technologies for possible collaboration.