MRS Srping Meeting 2009, including Materials Research for Terahertz Technology Development Symposium
2009 MRS Spring Meeting
April 13 – 17
San Francisco, CA
Exhibit: April 14-16
Including
MRS Symposium K: Materials Research for Terahertz Technology Development
The Terahertz (THz) portion of the frequency spectrum (0.3-10 THz) has attracted interest for various potential applications such as urban warfare and hidden weapons discovery, checking personnel and packages for guns and explosives, chemical and biological detection, and even communi- cations. However, the spectral region has been underutilized because of the inadequacy of THz sources, detectors, and components that are, in turn, limited by materials. This symposium intends to focus on the latest advances in materials that will enable the development of the terahertz region of the spectrum. The symposium is open to electronic and optical THz-producing techniques. Materials work in growth (bulk, epi, and engineered), characterization (spectroscopy, loss, dielectric studies, etc.), and devices will be welcomed, but not limited to, semiconductors, polymers, biological, chemical, gas, engineered, and other materials.
Topics of interest include:
• Materials for THz sources and THz detectors
• Materials for THz components (i.e., modulators, lenses, mirrors, transmission lines, etc.)
• THz spectroscopy of materials (molecular, organic, and inorganic)
• Ultrafast chemistry and physics as it relates to THz
• Material properties at THz frequencies
• Negative-index and other novel materials
• Novel devices for THz applications
Invited speakers (tentative) include:
Don Arnone (TeraView Ltd., United Kingdom), Harvey Beere (Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Mikhail Belkin (Harvard Univ.), Thomas Crowe (VDI: Virginia Diodes, Inc.), Yujie Ding (Lehigh Univ.), Frank Hegmann (Univ. of Alberta, Canada), Alex Jen (Univ. of Washington), Michael Johnston (Oxford Univ., United Kingdom), Brian Kolner (Univ. of California-Davis), Jun Kono (Rice Univ.), Petr Kuzel (Inst. of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Richard Lai (Northrop Grumman Corp.), Krishna Mandal (EIC Laboratories, Inc.), Eric Mueller (Coherent-DEOS), Vincent Stenger (SRICO, Inc.), Konstantin Vodopyanov (Stanford Univ.), Xi-Cheng Zhang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.), and David Zimdars (Picometrix, Inc.).
Symposium Organizers
C. Edward Stutz
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Rm. 253, 3005 Hobson Way, Wright-Patterson AFB,
OH 45433-7707
Tel 937-255-9889, Fax 937-255-4913, charles.stutz@us.af.mil
David Ritchie
University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Ave., Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
Tel 44-1223-337331, Fax 44-1223-337271, dar11@cam.ac.uk
Peter Schunemann
BAE Systems, Inc., MER15-1813, P.O. Box 868, Nashua,
NH 03061-0868
Tel 603-885-5041, Fax 603-885-0207 peter.g.schunemann@baesystems.com
Jason Deibel
Wright State University, Dept. of Physics, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy., Dayton, OH 45435-0001
Tel 937-775-2148, Fax 937-775-2222, jason.deibel@wright.edu
For more information, see the MRS Spring 2009 meeting website.