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Symposium B
SMART OPTICS MATERIALS – DEVICES – APPLICATIONS
The recent years have seen a growing request of advanced materials and devices for forefront technological applications. Optics and photonics, as enabling technologies, are pervasive of many aspects of our everyday life, and are particularly demanding in terms of novel materials and devices. Smart optical materials, which can be defined as materials with optical characteristics that change in a predictable manner in response to environmental conditions and/or to external stimuli, represent a very important class among the novel materials. The same importance can be attributed to smart structures (this term started to be used at the beginning of 1990s), which refer mainly to large infrastructures such as bridges, pipelines, dams, ships, trains, airplanes and spaceships, but also to houses and motor vehicles. Optical fibers have always played a key role in the development of smart structures, but the nanotechnologies, with their increasing capability to manage the matter at the atomic, molecular and mesoscopic level, are offering novel tools and approaches. The new nanostructured materials will exhibit higher specifications than the conventional materials but will also open the way to new design concepts, e.g. based on the capability of closely mimicking the nature (biomimetics).
Session B-1 Smart Optical Materials Novel/improved materials and synthesis methods
Nano and mesostructure design Materials processing and functionalisation Structure and properties: characterisation and optimisation
B-1.1 Spectrally active materials and devices Session B-2 Passive, Active and Adaptive Optical Devices and Systems Optimal design
Micro- and nano-fabrication technologies Integration technologies at macro- to nano-scale Interfacing issues Performance and reliability Data acquisition, data processing, reduction and reliability B-2.1 Optical MEMS, smart optical sensors and devices Session B-3 Ongoing applications and perspectives |