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SYMPOSIUM D

9:00 AM *D4-S1.1 (invited)
Photonics on Chip. (#1255) Michal Lipson, Carl B Poitras; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

9:30 AM D4-S1.2
Probing Chalcogenide Microspheres. (#973) Christian Grillet, Shu Ning Bian, Eric C Magi, Benjamin E Eggleton; CUDOS, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

9:45 AM D4-S1.3
Nano-Focusing of Surface Plasmons in Metallic Nano-Structures. (#1167) Dmitri K. Gramotnev¹, David F. P. Pile²; ¹Applied Optics and Nanotechnology Program, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Australia ; ²University of California Berkeley, USA.

10:00 AM D4-S1.4
Low Cost Nanoimprinted Polysiloxane Waveguides. (#1065) Ting Han¹, Steve Madden¹, Mathew Zhang¹, Robbie Charters², Barry Luther-Davies¹; ¹Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia ; ²Redfern Polymer Optics Pty. Ltd., Australia.

10:15 AM D4-S1.5
Growth and Characterisation of High Purity Twin-Free GaAs Nanowires. (#448) Hannah Jane Joyce¹, Qiang Gao¹, H. Hoe Tan¹, Chennupati Jagadish¹, Xin Zhang², Jin Zou²; ¹Electronic Materials Engineering Department, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia ; ²The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

11:00 AM D4-S2.1
The Roles of Surface Adsorption and Substrate Interactions on Surface Enhanced Raman. (#1163) Dimitri A Alexson, Stefan C Badescu, Orest J. Glembocki, S M Prokes, Ronald W Rendell; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.

11:15 AM D4-S2.2
Comparison of Microfluidic Cavities Based On Chalcogenide and Silicon Photonic Crystals. (#958) Cameron Lesley Smith¹, Uwe Bog¹, Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic¹, Christian Grillet¹, Christelle Monat¹, Christian Karnutsch¹, Ross McPhedran¹, Benjamin Eggleton¹, Liam O'Faolain², Marcel Spurny², Tom White², Thomas Krauss²; ¹CUDOS, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ; ²School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom.

11:30 AM D4-S2.3
Polarization-Induced Giant Enhancement of Light Transmission through a Pyramidal Probe. (#96) Seong Soo Choi, Sun Moon University, Republic of Korea.

2:00 PM *D4-S3.1 (invited)
Membrane Photonic Crystals Based on III-V Semiconductors: Potential for All Optical Switching, Light Matter Interaction and Slow Light. (#1233) Alfredo De Rossi¹, Sylvain Combrié¹, Quynh Vy Tran¹, Chad Husko²; ¹Thales Research and Technology, France ; ²Thales Research and Technology and Columbia University, France.

2:30 PM D4-S3.2
Realisation of Three-Dimensional Woodpile Photonic Crystals Working in the Visible Wavelength Range. (#483) Jiafang Li, Baohua Jia, Min Gu; Centre for Micro-Photonics and Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.

2:45 PM D4-S3.3
Photo-Induced Double-Heterostructure Cavities in Chalcogenide Glass Photonic Crystals. (#1045) Michael Whalen Lee¹, Christian Grillet¹, Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic¹, Cameron L C Smith¹, Darren Freeman², Steve Madden², Barry Luther-Davies², Benjamin J Eggleton¹; ¹The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ; ²Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

3:00 PM D4-S3.4
Fabrication and Optical Properties of Periodical Structures Based on a Water-Developable and Tunable La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ Resist. (#494) Ming-Chung Wu, Sharon Chen, Chih-Min Chuang, Yi Chou, Yang-Fang Chen, Wei-Fang Su; National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

4:00 PM *D4-S4.1 (invited)
Heteroepitaxial Magneto-Optical Photonic Crystals. (#871) Alexander M Grishin, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden.

4:30 PM D4-S4.2
Fabrication of Nickel Centers in Diamond for Quantum Optical applications. (#275) Igor Aharonovich, Alastair Stacey, Chunyuan Zhou, Jean-Francois Roch, Steven Prawer; School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.

4:45 PM D4-S4.3
A Prototype Radiation Detector Based on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. (#537) Antonio Ambrosio¹, Michelangelo Ambrosio¹, Giuseppina Ambrosone², Viviana Carillo¹, Ubaldo Coscia², Valentina Grossi³, Pasqualino Maddalena², Maurizio Passacantando³, Eugenio Perillo², Adelaide Raulo², Sandro Santucci³; ¹CNR-INFM CRS-COHERENTIA and I.N.F.N., Italy ; ²I.N.F.N. and Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy ; ³Dipartimento di Fisica, I.N.F.N. and CNR-INFM, Università dell'Aquila, Italy.

5:00 PM D4-S4.4
Multi-band and Broad-band Infrared Detectors Based on Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures. (#193) Sumith V Bandara, Sarath Gunapala, David Ting, John Liu, Cory J Hill, Jason M Mumolo; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA.

5:15 PM D4-S4.5
Exotic Optical Antenna Effects in Semiconducting Nanowires. (#1228) Peter C. Eklund, Jian Wu, Qiujie Lu, Humberto R. Gutierrez; Department of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

D4-S5.2
Synthesis of TiO₂ / Polymer Composite Photochromic Materials by Sol-Gel Process. (#784) Dae-Girl Lee, Hyo-Jin Oh, Hyo-Sang Choi, Yong-Sung Choi, Yeong-Min Kim, Gyung-Soo Jeon, Sun-Jae Kim; Sejong University, Republic of Korea.

D4-S5.3
Dry Etching of Amorphous As₂S₃ Films in CHF₃ Plasma. (#340) Duk-Yong Choi, Steve Madden, Anrei Rode, Rongping Wang, Barry Luther-Davies; Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

D4-S5.4
Influence of Titanium Adhesion Layer on the Light Transmittance through a Nano-Aperture. (#205) M.J. Park, V. Jha, O Suwal, D.W. Kin, S.S. Choi; NRL, Sun Moon University, Republic of Korea.

D4-S5.5
Characterization and Modeling of Photosensitivity Properties of SnO₂ Thin Film Sensors Fabricated by Spray Deposition Technique. (#808) Marcio Fontana, Nilo Lima Matias, Aiese Cruz Barros, Fabiano Fragoso Costa; Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.

D4-S5.6
Substrate Effects in Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Metal and Metal/Dielectric Nanowires Composites. (#727) Orest J. Glembocki¹, Ronald W. Rendell¹, S M Prokes¹, Dimitri A. Alexson¹, Michael A. Mastro¹, Anqi Fu²; ¹Electronic Science and Technology Division, Power Electronics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA ; ²University of Maryland, USA.

D4-S5.7
Ni-Related Optical Centers in Diamond Produced by Ion Implantation. (#836) Julius Orwa, Steven Prawer; School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.

D4-S5.8
Planar X-Ray Waveguide-Resonator as the Base for Nanophotonic Instruments. (#343) Vladimir Egorov, Evgeniy Egorov; Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High-Purity Materials, Russian Academy of Sciences, IMT RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow, Russian Federation.

D4-S5.9
Extraordinary Transmission of Nanohole Arrays in Gold Films. (#287) Alexander Minovich¹, Haroldo Hattori², Ian McKerracher², H. Hoe Tan², Dragomir N. Neshev¹, Chennupati Jagadish², Yuri S. Kivshar¹; ¹Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia ; ²Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.