Conference Agenda

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. Quantum dots are tiny objects notable especially for their optical properties, whose characteristics place quantum dots somewhere between molecules and macroscopic crystalline solids. This tutorial will provide an overview of the optical properties of quantum dots and their characterization.

In this tutorial I will present the physics of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their optical properties, ranging from graphene to hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides, bridging between optics and solid-state physics, following the historical evolution of the field of 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures.

This tutorial will concern at least the following TOMs:

TOM 5: Nanophotonics

TOM 6: Optical Materials

TOM 8: Nonlinear and Quantum Optics

TOM 10: Applications of Optics and Photonics

This tutorial deals with light interaction of correlated disordered media, that are non-crystalline heterogeneous materials exhibiting pronounced spatial correlations in their structure and morphology. These materials that lie between the extremes of order and disorder, owing to their engineered disordered patterns, can yield innovative optical phenomena and even enhance the optical properties of ordered photonic systems.