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. The participation to this workshop is by invitation only . The invited experts are expected to actively participate to the discussion session. Participation should be confirmed to Laurent.fulbert@cea.fr by March 30th.

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.

8:30	Start of the workshop
8:30	Introduction	Laurent Fulbert, CEA
	MONA introduction and European context Frame of reference presentation
9:00	Nano-scale materials	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
11:30	Equipment and processes	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
13:00	Lunch break
14:00	Applications and markets	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
15:30	Final discussion & Conclusion
16:00	End of the workshop

* Note: For each topic, there will be a short introductory presentation by the chairman, followed by the discussion session with the possibility for people to show 2-3 slides from a USB stick to support their arguments.