Full program:  Symposium C

Silicon-based photonics has now become an exploding research field. The steady advances in the fabrication, characterization and modeling of nanostructured silicon and photonic structures drive the promises to revolutionize integrated optoelectronics within a front-end process scalable to the wafer-size of mainstream CMOS technology.

Scope:
The ever-increasing data-demands of our information age have driven an impressive growth of optical technologies in the last decade. The exploding communication bandwidth demands, simply encoded in the smaller, faster, cheaper axioms of Moore’s law, are now challenging the next generations of high-speed integrated microelectronics devices from the fundamental standpoints of energy dissipation and signal delays in dense metal wiring interconnections. The fundamental imbalance between single device speed and data access in highly integrated electronic systems can be solved by the fruitful combination of microelectronics and optical technologies. The present challenge is therefore to develop new technologies able to carry the almost unimaginable bandwidth of optical communications to a miniaturized metric, ranging from local areas to systems and chip interconnections, and ultimately scaled at the chip-level. Silicon photonics lies at the core of these efforts, bearing the promises of a unique technological integration of CMOS microelectronics with silicon-based optical functions such as efficient emission, manipulation and detection of light.

The proposed EMRS symposium titled “Frontiers in Silicon-based Photonics” represents a valuable opportunity to gather in Europe the leading researchers in the field from around the world to share ideas, to further the dialog and to forge new interdisciplinary partnerships focused towards the achievements of a potentially exploding new technology with an enormous societal impact. In addition, the proposed symposium fits naturally into the outstanding history of successfully organized EMRS symposia on silicon photonics-related topics in recent years, which significantly contributed to stimulate many exciting results in this area of research. The “Frontiers in Silicon-based Photonics” symposium will address novel advances in fabrication, characterization and modeling of silicon nanostructures and photonic structures. In particular, the Symposium will highlight recent exciting achievements in: silicon-based light modulation, high-Q resonant structures, low-loss waveguides, Raman lasers, silicon-based photodetectors, biosensing systems, optical interconnects and efficient light sources. Additionally, the symposium will address the modelling, materials and device challenges and perspectives for the demonstration of efficient, electrically-driven silicon LEDs and lasers.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:
1) Nanocrystals and low dimensional systems (wires and wells)
2) Active devices based on Si alloying
3) Er-coupled, infrared emitting structures
4) Detectors, imagers, modulators, switches, physical sensors
5) Silicon-based photonic crystal structures and nano-devices
6) Si-based plasmonic structures
7) Free-space components on silicon
8) Waveguides, add/drop filters, etc
9) Monolithic optoelectronic integration on silicon
10) Photonic Integrated Circuits
11) Biological and chemical sensors
12) Demonstration and analysis of optical interconnects and other systems
13) Electronic structure modeling
14) Perspectives for electrically-driven lasers, emitters, amplifiers on Si

Tentative list of invited speakers:
1) G. Agrawal, (University of Rochester, USA)
2) H. Atwater (Caltech, USA)
3) M. Brongersma (Stanford, USA)
4) C. Delerue, (IEMN-ISEN, Lille, France)
5) Giulia Galli, (University of California, Davis, USA)
6) F. Gourbilleau (SIFCOM-ENSICAEN, CNRS, France)
7) Alessia Irrera (MATIS INFM-CNR, Italy)
8) L. C. Kimerling (MIT, USA)
9) S. Lechuga (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
10) Jan Linnros (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
11) Mike Morse( INTEL, USA)
12) S. Ossicini (University of Modena e Reggio, Italy)
13) L. Pavesi (University of Trento, Italy)
14) Albert Polman, AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
15) H. Shin, (KAIST, Korea)
16) S. Weiss, (Vanderbilt University, USA)
17) R. Wehrspohn (Fraunhofer Institute, Halle, Germany)
18) M. Zacharias, (Frieburg University, Germany)

Tentative list of scientific committee members:
Prof. U. Goesele, (Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany), Dr. Zeno Gaburro (University of Trento, Italy), Prof. N. Marzari (MIT), Dr. S. Hamel (LLNL, USA), Prof. W. Skorupa (Dresden Germany), Dr. D. Lockwood (NRC, Canada), Prof. A. Nassiopoulou (IMEL/NCSR, Greece), Prof. B. Garrido (University of Barcelona, Spain), Dr. J. Michel (MIT), Prof. L. Brus (Columbia, USA), Prof. G. Abstreiter (WSI Minchen, Germany), Dr. T. van Buuren (LLNL,USA), Dr. D.S. Gardner (Intel Corp., USA).

Sponsors:

Symposium organizers:

Luca DAL NEGRO
Boston University & Photonics Center
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
8 saint Mary’s street
Boston, Massachusetts, 02215-2421
USA
Tel: 001-617-358-2627
Fax: 001-617-353-6440
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Fabio IACONA
CNR-IMM
Stradale Primosole 50
I-95121 Catania
Italy
Tel: +39-095-5968228 (office)
Fax: +39-095-5968312
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Richard RIZK
SIFCOM, CNRS UMR 6176
ENSICAEN
6 Bd du Maréchal-Juin
14000 Caen
France
Tel: +33 (0)2 31 45 26 74
Fax: +33 (0)2 31 26 60
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Philippe M. FAUCHET
University of Rochester
ECE Department
Computer Studies Building
160 Trustee Road
P.O. Box 270231
Rochester
NY 14627-0231
Tel: 001-(585) 275-1487
Fax: 001-(585) 276-2058
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Minoru FUJII
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Kobe University
Rokkodai, Nada
Kobe 657-8501
Japan
Tel: +81-78-803-6081
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