FRIDAY 17th OCTOBER
Oral presentations: 15 min (10 + 5min discussion)

Session 7b /Part 2
Chairman: To be assigned

9:00

Plenary Talk:

Chaotic Data Encryption for Optical Communications
Professor K Alan Shore, University of Wales ,Bangor, UK. Head of the School of Informatics,
Director of the ICON Centre of Excellence and Chair of the Institute of Physics ( Wales)

10:00

TITANIUM ENVIRONMENT IN (TiO2)x(SiO2)1-x (x=0.08, 0.18 and 0.41) SOL-GEL CATALYSTS STUDIED BY NEUTRON DIFFRACTION WITH ISOTOPIC SUBSTITUTION

 D. M.PICKUP, R. J. NEWPORT AND F. E. SOWREY School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, UK. Contact E-mail: d.m.pickup@ukc.ac.uk K.O. DRAKE AND M. E. SMITH Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, Warwickshire, CV4 7AL, UK.

10:15

EFFECTS OF MOLECULAR PROPERTIES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES
 MARTA M.D. RAMOS, A.M. ALMEIDA, HELENA M.G. CORREIA AND R. MENDES RIBEIRO Department of Physics, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, PORTUGAL. E-mail: marta@fisica.uminho.pt A.M. STONEHAM Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

10:30

HIGH RESOLUTION SYNCROTRON RADIATION PHOTOEMISSION STUDY OF THIN RARE-EARTH SILICIDE FILMS EPITAXIALLY GROWN ON Si(111)

 C. ROGERO, J. A. MARTÍN-GAGO Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales (CSIC), Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, SPAIN. E-mail: gago@icmm.csic.es A. GOLDONI ELETTRA, Sincrotrone Trieste, SS 14, km 163.5, in Area Science Park, 34014- Basovizza-Trieste Italy

10:45

ADVANCES IN QUANTUM DOT INTERMEDIATE BAND SOLAR CELLS

 L. CUADRA, A. MARTÍ, A. LUQUE IES–UPM, Polytechnical University of Madrid, ETSIT, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, SPAIN

11:00

FIRST PRINCIPLES STUDY OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF ADSORBED QUANTUM DOTS

 VANJA LINDBERG Department of Physics, Växjö University, SE-352 52 Växjö, SWEDEN E-mail: vanja.lindberg@msi.vxu.se TUOMAS TORSTI CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd., P.O. Box 405, FIN-02101 Espoo, FINLAND E-mail: tuomas.torsti@csc.fi MARTTI J. PUSKA Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 405, FIN-02015 HUT, FINLAND E-mail: mpu@fyslab.hut.fi BO HELLSING Department of Experimental Physics, Chalmers and Göteborg University, SE-412 96 Göteborg, SWEDEN E-mail: hellsing@fy.chalmers.se

11:15

IMPROVEMENT OF THE PERFORMANCES OF POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS BY CHEMICAL VAPOR ETCHING

 M. BEN RABHA, M. F. BOUJMIL, S. AOUIDA, M. SAADOUN, B. BESSAÏS, H. EZZAOUIA, R. BENNACEUR Institut National de Recherche Scientifique et Technique, Laboratoire des Applications Solaires. Groupe de Photovoltaïque et des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, BP 95, 2050 Hammam-Lif, Tunisia. e-mail:Brahim.Bessais@inrst.rnrt.tn

11:30

POSTER SESSION, COFFE BREAK AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION

13:00

COMPUTER SIMULATION OF ELECTRON ENERGY STATE SPIN SPLITTING FOR DIFFERENT SHAPE SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS

 YIMING LI Department of Nano Device Technology, National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Microelectronics and Information Systems Research Center, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Email: ymli@faculty.nctu.edu.tw

 

13:15

INTERFACIAL MICROSTRUCTURE AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF PT/AL2O3/SI ANNEALED AT HIGH TEMPERATURES

 SAN-YUAN CHEN* AND JUNG-JUI HSU Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. E-mail: sychen@cc.nctu.edu.tw

13:30

 Feasibility of (Pb1-xCax)TiO3 thin films with x ?0.5 for electronics applications

 J. Mendiola, R. Jimenez, P. Ramosa C. Alemany, M.L. Calzada, E. Maurer Into. de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco 28049, Madrid, Spain. aDpto de Electrónica, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, E-28871 Madrid, Spain e-mail:mendiola@icmm.CSIC.es

13:45
SUPERCONDUCTING RING-TRANSFORMERS AS BASIS OF A QUANTUM COMPUTER
 CHRISTOPH KERNER, WIM MAGNUS AND WIM SCHOENMAKER IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, BELGIUM. E-mail: kernerc@imec.be, magnus@imec.be, schoen@imec.be CHRIS VAN HAESENDONCK Solid-State Physics Dept., University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001 Leuven, BELGIUM. E-mail: chris.vanhaesendonck@fys.kuleuven.ac.be
14:00

END OF SESSION

 

Session 8+9
Chairman:
To be assigned

16:00
ORGANIC PHASE-SENSITIVE OPTICAL DEVICES BY MECHANICAL LITHOGRAPHIES
 D. PISIGNANO, L. PERSANO, P. VISCONTI, R. CINGOLANI, AND G. GIGLI NNL, National Nanotechnology Laboratory of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM), c/o Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Università di Lecce, via Arnesano, I-73100 Lecce, ITALY E-mail: dario.pisignano@unile.it
16:15
OPTICAL ENZYME SENSORS BASED UPON SILICON PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COATED WITH COMPOSITE POLYELECTROLYTE FILM
 A.V. NABOK, S. HARON, A.K. RAY School of Engineering, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Pond Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK. E-mail: a.nabok@shu.ac.uk
16:30
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CUBIC GAN AND INGAN OF DIFFERENT DOPING LEVELS
 J. R. L. FERNANDEZ, F. CERDEIRA, E. A MENESES Instituto de Física “Gleb Wataghin”, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Caixa Postal 6165, 13.083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil E–mail:fernando@ifi.unicamp.br J.A.N.T. SOARES, A.M. SANTOS, O.C. NORIEGA, J.R. LEITE Instituto deFísica, Universidade deSão paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, São Paulo, SP, Brazil D. J. AS, U. KÖHLER, D.G.P. SALAZAR, D. SCHIKORA AND K. LISCHKA Universität Paderborn, FB-6 Physik, D-33095 Paderborn, Germany
16:45
A laser scattering method for in-situ surface roughness measurement
 C.J. Tay, S.H. Wang and C. Quan Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore
17:00
ABERRATION CORRECTED OPTICAL TWEEZERS FOR DEEP TRAPPING
  E. THEOFANIDOU, W. J. HOSSACK AND J. ARLT COSMIC, School of Physics, The University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland Tel.: +44 131 6505229 Fax: +44 131 6505209 E-mail: j.arlt@.ed.ac.uk
17:15
LARGE STRUCTURAL CHANGES INDUCED BY THERMAL POLING IN BOROPHOSPHATE NIOBIUM GLASSES: SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION AND IR STUDIES
 M.DUSSAUZE AND E.FARGIN I.C.M.C.B. Avenue du Dr Schweitzer, 33608 Pessac cedex, France E-mail: dussauze@icmcb.u-bordeaux.fr V. RODRIGUEZ AND T. BUFFETEAU AND F. ADAMIETZ L.P.C.M. Université de bordeaux I, 33405 Talence cedex, France E-mail: v.rodriguez@lpcm.u-bordeaux1.fr
17:30

POSTER SESSION AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION

19:00
EMISSION SPECTRUM OF AN ELECTRON IN A DOBLE QUANTUM WELL DRIVEN BY ULTRASHORT HALF-CYCLE PULSES
 A. MATOS-ABIAGUE AND J. BERAKDAR Max-Planck Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D- 06120 Halle, GERMANY. E-mail: a matos@mpi-halle.mpg.de
19:15
SPECTRO-TEMPORAL IMAGING OF OPTICAL PULSES USING A SINGLE TIME LENS OPERATING IN THE SPECTRAL FRAUNHOFER REGIME
 JOSÉ AZAÑA Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS - EMT) Montréal, Québec, Canada H5A 1K6 E-mail: jazagna@inrs-ener.uquebec.ca NAUM K. BERGER, BORIS LEVIT, AND BARUCH FISCHER Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel E-mail: fischer@ee.technion.ac.il
19:30
ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION OF NEW COPOLYMERS WITH LINEAR OR TRI-BRANCHED STRUCTURE
  JUN MI, RONGYI ZHU, WEIMEN LIU and SHIXIONG QIAN Physics Department and Surface Physics Laboratory ( National Key Lab ),Fudan University, Shanghai,200433?P. R. China E-mail: sxqian@fudan.ac.cn FANSHUN MENG AND HE TIAN Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology,Shanghai 200237, P. R. China
19:45
HOW SUBSTRATE GLASS COMPOSITION EFFECTS Ag+/Na+ EXCHANGED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES PROPERTIES
 M. MIKA, P. TRESNAKOVA-NEBOLOVA, J. SPIRKOVA AND L. SALAVCOVA Institute of Chemical Technology, Technicka 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic E-mail: Martin.Mika@vscht.cz
20:00 END OF SESSION
 

POSTERS SESSION 8+9