MONA Workshop Agenda

MONA workshop on materials, equipment and applications of nanophotonics

Friday 7 April 2006, Room Tivoli 1, Palais de la Musique et des Congrès, Strasbourg, France
This workshop is collocated with SPIE Photonics Europe Conference.

The goal of the workshop is to identify the key issues related to nanophotonic devices at industrial scale. It will gather experts from nanoscale materials, equipment and processes as well as applications and devices.

MONA (Merging Optics and Nanotechnologies) is a two-year Specific Support Action aiming at leveraging synergies in photonics and nanotechnologies. MONA will foster collaborations between photonics and nanotechnologies stakeholders and will help preparing future research activities. A major outcome of MONA will be a consolidated scenario (time horizon 5-10 years), setting out development and technology road maps related to materials, equipment and applications.

Introduction (chair: Laurent Fulbert, CEA)

General presentation of MONA (Laurent Fulbert, CEA)
Presentation of Photonics21 (Markus Wilkens, VDI-TZ)
Frame of reference presentation (Dirk Holtmannspötter, VDI-TZ)

Nano-scale materials (chair: Roel Baets, IMEC)

Key question:"What are the key issues and challenges in physical understanding and in materials technology?"
Topics addressed: Semiconductor QD, Colloidal nanoparticles, Nanoplasmonics structures, Silicon nanophotonics, Porous silicon, Photonic crystals
Synthesis on materials (Roel Baets, IMEC)

Equipment and processes (chair: Rainer Beccard, Aixtron)

Key question: "What kind of equipment is needed for R&D and industrial scale production?"
Topics addressed: Growth of nanoscale structures, Structuring/processing of nanoscale devices, Metrology
Synthesis on equipment (Rainer Beccard, Aixtron)

Applications and markets (chair: Krassimir Krastev, Opticsvalley & Eric Mounier, Yole Développement)

Key question: "Which limitations of the current solutions could nanophotonics help to overcome in your field of interest?"
Topics addressed: Optical Interconnects, Datacoms/Telecoms, Lighting /Displays, Data storage , Image sensors, Sensors, Photovoltaics
Synthesis on Applications and markets (Krassimir Krastev, Opticsvalley & Eric Mounier, Yole Développement)