Complete programme

Tutorials:        Sept. 18th, Sunday 9:0018:00 (Tutorials’ Programme)

Main event:     Sept. 19th, Monday 8:30 – Sept. 22nd, Thursday 14:00 (see invited speakers)


Nanoplasmonic Sensors and Spectroscopy 2011

Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden, September 19-22

 


Conference program (Download in PDF)

 


 

Monday, 19

Session Chair:
              Bo Lieberg

Tuesday, 20

Session Chair:
        Vahid Sandoghdar

Wednesday, 21

Session Chair:
              Ralph Nuzzo

Thursday, 22

Session Chair:
            Mikael Käll

8.30

Jiri Homola, IPE, Prague, Czech Republic:

Affinity biosensors

based on spectroscopy of surface plasmons: technology and applications

Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester, USA: Optical Antennas for Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions

Hongxing Xu, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China: Plasmon-based interferometric logic and plasmon-assisted chemical reactions

Olivier Martin, EPFL, Switzerland: Sensing reactive oxygen species in stressed micro-organisms using plasmon resonant energy transfer

9.20

Borja Sepulveda, Research Center on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain: Anomalous Dispersion of Nanoplasmonic Guided Modes for Enhanced Biosensing

Ivan Maksymov, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia: Enhanced Emission and Light Control with Plasmonic Yagi-Uda-like Nanoantennas

Gobind Das, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy: Molecular spectroscopic detection using large area

surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate

David Richards, King's College London, UK: Super-resolution axial sensitivity in plasmonic fluorescence cellular assays of protein internalisation

9.45

Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany: Collective Plasmon Resonances in Metal Nanoparticle Arrays with Quadrupole Coupling and their Sensing Properties

Thomas Taubner, RWTH Aachen, Germany: Enhanced vibrational near-field spectroscopy of PMMA with infrared antennas

Matthew Doherty, Queen's University of Belfast, UK: Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering from Periodic Nano-arrays

Andreas B. Dahlin, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland: Plasmonic Monitoring of Electrochemical Processes

10.10 Coffee break



 Session Chair:
               Jiri Homola



 Session Chair:
             Lukas Novotny



Session Chair:
            Hongxing Xu



 Session Chair:
          Alexandre Dmitriev

10.30

Bo Liedberg, Linköping University, Sweden: Switchable nanomaterials for sensing and materials science. A synthetic polypeptide approach

Vahid Sandoghdar, Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany: The ultimate limit of label-free optical detection

Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA:

Quantitative Chemical Imaging of Complex Biological Systems using

Plasmonic Optics

Markus Schwind, Applied Physics, Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden: Higher Order Plasmon Modes in Randomly Ordered Nanoparticle Ensembles - Characterization and Sensitivity Enhancement

11.20

Eric Finot, ICB, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France: Spectral and temporal distribution of adsorbate mocules by dynamic Raman nanospectroscopy

Kristof Lodewijks (Pol van Dorpe), IMEC / K.U. Leuven, Belgium: Boosting the Figure of Merit of LSPR based refractive index

sensing by phase sensitive measurements

Paul Dawson, Queen's University of Belfast, UK: Optical antenna and hot spot response in surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) from

silver-dressed, vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

(10.55)
Magnus P. Jonsson, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands: Nanoplasmonic Holes for Biosensing – Exploring Unique Possibilities

11.45

Stefan Löfås, GE Healthcare Biosceinces, Uppsala, Sweden:
Two decades of commercial SPR instruments in perspective and heading for the future


Vladimir Bochenkov, iNANO, Århus, Denmark: Improved refractive index sensitivity of suspended gold nanoholes

M. Fernanda Cardinal, Unidad Asociada Universidade de Vigo-CSIC, Vigo, Spain: Vibrational Response of Gold Nanorods: Palladium Coating Effect

(11.20)
L. Andrea Dunbar, CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland: Enhanced Transmission of gold membranes at Infrared Wavelengths for chemical sensing

12.10 Lunch



 Session Chair:
              Naomi Halas



 Session Chair:
           Romain Quidant



 Session Chair:
          Javier Aizpurua

(11.45)
End of the conference

14.00

Richard van Duyne, Northwestern University, USA: Spectroscopy and Sensing at the Single Molecule and Single Nanoparticle

Level

Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London, UK: Plasmonic Metamaterials for Sensing

Peter Nordlander, Rice University, Houston, USA: Plasmonic nanostructures: From quantum effects to Fano interference and biosensing

 

 

COST Plasmonics meeting

 

 

14.50

Sang-Hyun Oh, University of Minnesota, USA: High-Throughput Fabrication of Metallic Nanostructures for Plasmonic Biosensing and Imaging

Andreas Hohenau, Karl-Franzens Univ. Graz, Austria: Plasmonic modes of gold nano-particle arrays on

thin gold films

Eugene Bortchagovsky, Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Kiev, Ukraine: Simulation of the response of the optical sensor on localized plasmons with the account of interparticle interactions.

15.15

Stefan Maier, Imperial College London, UK:

Coherent and broadband plasmonic nanocavities

Michael Stenbæk Schmidt, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark: A two step method for large area fabrication of leaning nanopillars forming hot spots for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Christiane Höppener, Institute of Physics, University of Münster, Germany: Optical Antennas for Mapping Protein Distributions

 


15.40

Alexander Vaskevich, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel: Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) Spectroscopy as a Tool For Studying Metal Deposition on the Nanoscale

Jord Prangsma, University of Wuerzburg, Germany: Hybridized plasmon resonances in structures with atomic scale gaps

 

16.05 Coffee break



 Session Chair:
       Richard Van Duyne

      Mounting of posters

Session Chair:
          
Anatoly Zayats

 

Session Chair:
        Peter Nordlander

 

16.30

Naomi Halas, Rice University, Houston, USA: Frontiers in Biologically-oriented nanosensing and nanoactuation

 

Romain Quidant, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain: Towards an integrated plasmonic analytical platform for early cancer detection

Javier Aizpurua, CSIC-San Sebastian, Spain: Close encounters between Nanoantennas: Bridging Quantum and Classical Plasmonics

 

17.20

Emilie Ringe, Northwestern University, USA: Single Particle Correlated LSPR/HRTEM Studies: Making Leaps Towards Fundamental Understanding of Structure-Function Relationships in Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Nathan J. Wittenberg, University of Minnesota, USA: Lipid binding characteristics of neurotherapeutic antibodies studied with nanohole surface plasmon resonance

Boris Chichkov, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany: Laser Fabrication of Large-Scale Nanoparticle Arrays for Sensing Applications

 

17.45

Reuven Gordon, University of Victoria, Canada: Directivity Enhanced Raman Scattering using Waveguide and Parabolic Optical Nanoantennas

Annika Enejder, Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden: Enhanced Emission of Four-Wave Mixing Signals from Nanoholes Investigated by Nonlinear microscopy

Pierre Brodard, EMPA, Duebendorf, Switzerland: Metallic nanostructures for plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

 

18.10

Vladimir Popok, Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany: Optical Enhancement of Photosensitizers using Supported Metal Clusters

Ulrich Fischer, University of Münster, Germany: Colloidal Lithography for Near-Field Spectroscopy and the Near - Field Photo - Chemical Fabrication of Chemical Nanostructures

Ron Gill, MIRA - University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands: Fluorescence enhancement by co-aggregation of dye-labeled DNA and silver nanoparticles

 

18.35

Julien Proust, Troyes University of Technology, Troyes, France: Axicon Based Plasmonic Nanosensors

 (18.45)
Timur Shegai, Chalmers, Göteborg, A bimetallic nanoantenna for directional colour routing



18.45 and onwards
        Posters session

 

 

19.30 Conference dinner

 

 


Poster session:
(18.45 and onwards, Tuesday, September 20, foyer of Palmstedtsalen, main conference venue)

The poster boards are 1 x 2 m2. The posters should be mounted during coffee break at 16.05 on Tuesday.

During the poster session you would have wine (red/white), mineral water, snacks (mixed nuts, crisps, and salty sticks), wraps with fillings.



Conference dinner
(19.30, Wednesday, September 21, starting from Lilla Bommen, small harbor in the heart of Gothenburg, near Gothenburg Opera house):

Archipelago cruise on board of M/S Lasse Dahlquist - you will be cruising on waterways in the beautiful south archipelago of Gothenburg. During the evening you will pass several of the well-known Swedish west coast islands including Brännö, Donsö, Styrsö and Känsö.

Archipelago Buffet: Three sorts of bread, cheddar cheese and butter. Five sorts of pickled herring, pickled herring potatoes. Egg halves with seafood mayonnaise, pickled herring cake. Herb- and garlic cooked mussels, fresh shrimps and sweet water crayfish (served with complimentary sauces). Cold-smoked salmon, hot-smoked salmon, cured salmon, smoked fillet of mackerel. Seafood pate, hot-smoked goose breast and Italian salami. Västerbotten cheese pie. Creamy sea food salad. ”Janssons frestelse” (potatoes, onion and anchovies baked in cream), meatballs. The buffet is complimented with beer, white and red wine.