Overview

The first International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Nano-Photonics (TaCoNa-Photonics 2008) took place in the "Physikzentrum Bad Honnef", Bad Honnef, Germany on December 3-5 2008.

72 participants from 20 countries have contributed to the workshop. Topics of the workshop were covered in 2 plenary, 13 invited, 20 contributed oral and 32 poster presentations.

Last update: 16 December 2009 - 3:21pm

Program at a Glance


December 3
8:00-8:45 Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Welcome Address
Session 1
Last update: 16 December 2009 - 1:51pm

Plenary Presentations

Modelling Experiments: What's the Problem? by Bill Barnes
Photonic Metamaterials: Optics Starts Walking on Two Feet by Martin Wegener


Last update: 28 May 2010 - 12:18pm

Invited Presentations

Single molecule fluorescence in nanoscopic environments by Remi Carminati, C. Vandenbem,...
Time domain simulation and visualization of the electromagnetic near-field around dielectric and metal nano-structures by Colm Dineen
Circuits with Light at the Nanoscale: Metananocircuits and Metactronics by Nader Engheta



Last update: 28 May 2010 - 12:24pm

Contributed Oral Presentations

1 Sven Burger, Germany Accurate simulations of nano-optical devices
2 Hung-Chun Chang,Taiwan Electromagnetic simulations of nanophotonic problems using the Legendre pseudospectral time-domain method
3 Celestino Creatore, Italy Quantum Theory of Spontaneous Emission in Multilayer Dielectric Structures
Last update: 16 December 2009 - 2:01pm

Poster Presentations

Jost Adam,
Germany 		Multipole Based Near-to-Far-Field Transformation and it's Applicability in (Sub-)Wavelength Scale Photonics P1
Mario Agio,
Switzerland 		Improving Light-Matter Iinteraction Using Metal Nanoparticles and Focused Beams P2
Arafa Aly,
Korea 		Study of THz Transmittance in Superconducting and Metallic Photonic Crystals P3
Last update: 16 December 2009 - 2:02pm