Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Seminar: 8.31.12 / CREOL 102 / 3-4pm / “Soft Matter: from Plasmonics to Optofluidics”, Luciano De Sio


Seminar: “Soft Matter: from Plasmonics to Optofluidics”, Luciano De Sio
CREOL 102
Friday, August 31, 2012 / 3-4pm

Luciano De Sio
Department of Physics University of Calabria and CNR-IPCF - LICRYL
(Liquid Crystals Laboratory, Institute for Chemical Physics Processes-CNR)
Centre of Excellence for the Study of Innovative Functional Materials CEMIF-CAL

Abstract
Liquid Crystals (LCs) are well-known “smart” materials combining self-organizing properties with fluidity and being responsive to a wide variety of external stimuli. New generation photonic devices can be realized exploiting unique properties of LCs. We will present achievements in plasmonics and optofluidics. Reconfigurability of LCs was employed in “Active Plasmonics” devices where the plasmonic resonance of gold nanoparticles (GPNs) could be finely controlled by means of external perturbations (electrical field, light, temperature). For the first time, the LC alignment was controlled by external pressure enabling of a peristaltic optofluidic modulator.

Biography:
Dr. Luciano De Sio graduated in Physics at the University of Calabria in 2003 and obtained his Ph.D in Science and Technology of Mesophases and Molecular Materials from the University of Calabria in 2006. His scientific research interests and expertise are in the fields of optics of liquid crystals, holographic diffraction gratings, optofluidics and plasmonics. He has co-authored 50 articles, over 20 scientific communications at conferences and co-authored three international patents.

For More Information:
Jin Yan
407-823-6822
jyan @ creol. ucf. edu

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