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EE298-2, Fall 2010
Photonics and Plasmonics Seminar

Fridays: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
521 Cory

Prerequisite:
An interest in Photonics and/or Plasmonics.
May be taken for credit (1 unit) and/or fun.

Text:
No text required.

Course Details:

**FA10 SCHEDULE UPDATED 11/22/10**


Seminar Schedule (pdf)
Seminar Schedule with Abstracts and Bios (pdf)

THIS WEEK'S SEMINAR

Lecturer:
Professor Ivan P. Kaminow
254M Cory Hall
Phone: (510) 642-4867
kaminow@eecs

Office Hours:
254M Cory Hall
By appointment

This course has no TA.

Seminar Coordinator:
Lea Barker
(510) 642-2384
leab@eecs

Announcements:

  • Course announcement for EE298-2, the Photonics and Plasmonics Seminar.

    Plasmonics list: plasmonics@lists.berkeley.edu

    THIS COURSE IS INTENDED TO GIVE STUDENTS AT THE ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE LEVEL, AND RESEARCHERS, INSIGHT INTO CURRENT RESEARCH BASED ON A SERIES OF INVITED TALKS.

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This Week's Seminar

  • December 3, 2010
    11:00 am - 12:30 pm
    521 Cory Hall

    MING LIU, Scalable and Integrated Nano Manufacturing (SINAM) Center, ME, UCB

    Nano-scale plasmonic motors driven by light

    Abstract
    The ability to provide rotational force in nano-meter scale opens up a new realm of applications in physics, biology and chemistry, ranging from DNA unfolding and sequencing, to active Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS). In this talk, I will show you that a nano-scale plasmonic structure generating a significantly large rotational force when illuminated with linearly-polarized light. We find that a metallic particle with size of 1/10 of the wavelength is capable of rotating a silica microdisk, 4,000 times larger in volume. Furthermore, we control the rotation velocity and direction by merely varying the wavelength of the incident light, thereby inducing different plasmonic modes which possess different torque directions.

    At the end of the talk, I would like to talk about the latest results we get on a graphene-based optoelectrical device.

    Bio
    Ming Liu received BS and MS degrees from Tsinghua University in Physics, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since then, he joined Prof. Xiang Zhang’s Scalable and Integrated Nano Manufacturing (SINAM) Center. His research interest includes plasmonic force, optomechanics, and graphene-based devices.