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Journal publications

-- 2015 --

Melikyan, A.; Koehnle, K.; Lauermann, M.; Palmer, R.; Koeber, S.; Muehlbrandt, S.; Schindler, P. C.; Elder, D. L.; Wolf, S.; Heni, W.; Haffner, C.; Fedoryshyn, Y.; Hillerkuss, D.; Sommer, M.; Dalton, L. R.; Thourhout, D. V.; Freude, W.; Kohl, M.; Leuthold, J.; Koos, C. "Plasmonic-organic hybrid (POH) modulators for OOK and BPSK signaling at 40 Gbit/s", Opt. Express 23, 9938--9946 (2015).

P. Rodríguez-Cantó, R. Abargues, H. Gordillo, I. Suarez, V. Chirvony, S. Albert, J. Martínez-Pastor, "UV-patternable nanocomposite containing CdSe and PbS as minituarized luminiscent chemo-sensors", RSC Advances 5, 19874-19883 (2015), DOI: 10.1039/C4RA02812K.

J. Hervás, I. Suárez, J. Pérez, P. J. Rodríguez Cantó, R. Abargues, J. P. Martínez-Pastor, S. Sales and J. Capmany, "MWP phase shifters integrated in PbS-SU8 waveguides", Optics Express 23, 14351-14359 (2015).

W. Xie, Y. Zhu, Tangi Aubert, S. Verstuyft, Zeger Hens, D. Van Thourhout, "Low-Loss Silicon Nitride Waveguide Hybridly Integrated With Colloidal Quantum Dots", Optics Express, 23(9), United States, p.12152-12160 (2015)

W. Heni, C. Haffner, B. Baeuerle, Y. Fedoryshyn, A. Josten, D. Hillerkuss, J. Niegemann, A. Melikyan, M. Kohl, D. Elder, L. Dalton, C. Hafner, and J. Leuthold, "108 Gbit/s Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator with > 70 GHz Electrical Bandwidth," J. Lightwave Technol., submitted for publication (2015).

HaffnerC, HeniW, FedoryshynY, NiegemannJ, MelikyanA, D. L. Elder, BaeuerleB, SalaminY, JostenA, KochU, HoessbacherC, DucryF, JuchliL, EmborasA, HillerkussD, KohlM, L. R. Dalton, HafnerC, and LeutholdJ, "All-plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling optical high-speed communication at the microscale," Nat. Photon 9, 525-528 (2015).

D. Hillerkuss, and J. Leuthold, "Software-Defined Transceivers in Dynamic Access Networks", J. Lightwave Technol., submitted for publication (2015).

I. Suárez, E. J. Juárez-Pérez, I. Mora-Seró, J. Bisquert and J. P. Martínez-Pastor, "Polymer/perovskite amplifying waveguides for active hybrid silicon photonics", Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503245, published online 31 august (2015).

A. Emboras et al, "Electrically Controlled Plasmonic Switches and Modulators", IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, VOL. 21, NO. 4, JULY/AUGUST 2015

M. Signoretto, I. Suárez, V.S. Chirvony, R. Abargues, P.J. Rodríguez-Cantó and J. Martínez-Pastor, "Optical waveguide couplers based on metal nanoparticle-polymer nanocomposites", Nanotechnology, in press.

P. Geiregat, A.J. Houtepen, F.C. Grozema, D. Van Thourhout, Z. Hens, "Picosecond All-Optical Wavelength Conversion using Hot Carrier Intraband Absorption in Colloidal PbS Nanocrystals", (under review).

-- 2014 --

Melikyan, A.; Alloatti, L.; Muslija, A.; Hillerkuss, D.; Schindler, P. C.; Li, J.; Palmer, R.; Korn, D.; Muehlbrandt, S.; Thourhout, D. V.; Chen, B.; Dinu, R.; Sommer, M.; Koos, C.; Kohl, M.; Freude, W.; Leuthold, J. High-speed plasmonic phase modulators Nature Photonics 8, 229--233 (2014).

Melikyan, A.; Kohl, M.; Sommer, M.; Koos, C.; Freude, W.; Leuthold, J., Photonic-to-plasmonic mode converter Opt. Lett. 39, 3488--3491 (2014)

Suárez, A. Larrue, P.J. Rodríguez-Cantó, G. Almuneau, R. Abargues, V. S. Chirvony and J.P. Martínez-Pastor, Efficient excitation of photoluminescence in a two-dimensional waveguide consisting of a QD-polymer heterostructure, Optics Letters 39, 4692-4695 (2014).

C. Hoessbacher, Y. Fedoryshyn, A. Emboras, A. Melikyan, M. Kohl, D. Hillerkuss, C. Hafner, and J. Leuthold, "The plasmonic memristor: a latching optical switch," Optica 1, 198-202 (2014).

-- 2013 --

Leuthold, J.; Hoessbacher, C.; Muehlbrandt, S.; Melikyan, A.; Kohl, M.; Koos, C.; Freude, W.; Dolores-Calzadilla, V.; Smit, M.; Suarez, I.; Martinez-Pastor, J. P.; Fitrakis, E. P.; Tomkos, I. Plasmonic Communications: Light on a Wire Opt. Photon. News 24, 28--35 (2013)

H. Gordillo, I. Suárez, R. Abargues, P. Rodríguez-Cantó and J.P. Martínez-Pastor, Color tuning and white light by dispersing CdSe, CdTe and CdS in PMMA nanocomposite waveguides, IEEE Photon. J. 5, 2201412 (12 pgs) (2013).

H. Gordillo, I. Suárez, R. Abargues, P. Rodríguez-Cantó, G. Almuneau and J. P. Martínez-Pastor, Quantum-dot double layer polymer waveguides by evanescent light coupling, IEEE/OSA J. of Lightwave Technol. 31, 2515-2525 (2013).

Suárez, H. Gordillo, R. Abargues, P. Rodríguez-Cantó, S. Albert and J.P. Martínez-Pastor, Dielectric and plasmonic waveguides based on quantum dots embedded in polymers, Opt. Pura Apl. 46, 303-308 (2013).

A. Omari, W. Xie, P. Geiregat, D. Van Thourhout, Z. Hens, Modeling the optical properties of low-cost colloidal quantum dot functionalized strip SOI waveguides, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 99, (2013).

A. Omari, P. Geiregat, D. Van Thourhout, Z. Hens, Light absorption in hybrid silicon-on-insulator/quantum dot waveguides, Optics Express, 21(20), p.23272-23285 (2013).

J. Leuthold, C. Hoessbacher, S. Muehlbrandt, A. Melikyan, M. Kohl, C. Koos, W. Freude, V. Dolores-Calzadilla, M. Smit, I. Suarez, J. Martínez-Pastor, E.P. Fitrakis, and I. Tomkos, "Plasmonic Communications: Light on a Wire", Optics & Photonics News 24, 24-35 (2013). Cover article.

I. Suárez, H. Gordillo, R. Abargues, P. Rodríguez-Cantó and J.P. Martínez-Pastor, "Color tuning and white light by dispersing CdSe, CdTe and CdS in PMMA nanocomposite waveguides", IEEE Photon. J. 5, 2201412 (12 pgs) (2013).

P. J. Rodríguez-Cantó; M. L. Martínez-Marco; R. Abargues ; V. Latorre-Garrido and J. P. Martínez-Pastor,?Novel patternable and conducting metal-polymer nanocomposites: a step towards advanced mutlifunctional materials, Proc. SPIE 8682, Advances in Resist Materials and Processing Technology XXX, (9 pgs) (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2011716.

R. Abargues, M. L. Martínez-Marco, P. J. Rodriguez-Cantó, J. Marques-Hueso, and J. P. Martínez-Pastor, Metal-polymer nanocomposite resist: a step towards in-situ nanopatterns metallization, Proc. SPIE 8682, Advances in Resist Materials and Processing Technology XXX, 86820X (8 pgs) (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2011555.

V. Dolores-Calzadilla, D. Heiss, A. Fiore, M. K. Smit, "Fabrication technology of metal-cavity nanolasers in III-V membranes on silicon", Proceeding of the Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, 2013.

V. Dolores-Calzadilla, D. Heiss, A. Fiore, M. K. Smit, "Waveguide-coupled nanolasers in III-V membranes on silicon", invited talk at IEEE Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Optical Transparent Networks, 2013.

D. Heiss, V. Dolores-Calzadilla, A. Fiore, M. Smit, "Design of a waveguide-coupled nanolaser for photonic integration", Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nano-Photonics, 2013.

H. Gordillo, I. Suárez, R. Abargues, P.J. Rodríguez-Cantó, and J.P. Martínez-Pastor, "Color tuning and white light by dispersing CdSe, CdTe and CdS in PMMA nanocomposite waveguides", IEEE Photonics J., 2013

Pieter Geiregat, Yolanda Justo, Sofie Abe, Stijn Flamee, Zeger Hens, "Giant and Broadband absorption enhancement in colloidal quantum dot monolayers through dipolar coupling", ACS Nano 2013, 7(2),987-993.

Abdoulghafar Omari, Pieter Geiregat,Dries Van Thourhout and Zeger Hens, "Light Absorption in Hybrid Silicon-On-Insulator/Quantum Dot Waveguides", Phys Rev.

-- 2012 --

A. Melikyan, C. Gaertner, K. Köhnle, A. Muslija, M. Sommer, M. Kohl, C. Koos, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, "Integrated Wire Grid Polarizer and Plasmonic Polarization Beam Splitter", in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2012), paper OW1E.3.

P. Geiregat, Y. Justo, S. Flamee, S. Abe, Z. Hens, Giant and Broadband Absorption Enhancement in Colloidal Quantum Dot Monolayers through Dipolar Coupling, ACS Nano, 7(2), p.987-993 (2012).

De Geyter, B.; Houtepen, A. J.; Carrillo, S.; Geiregat, P.; Gao, Y.; ten Cate, S.; Schins, J. M.; Van Thourhout, D.; Delerue, C.; Siebbeles, L. D. A.; Hens, Z., Broadband and Picosecond Intraband Absorption in Lead-Based Colloidal Quantum Dots. Acs Nano 2012, 6, 6067-6074.

R. Abargues, P. J. Rodríguez-Cantó, R. García-Calzada, and J. Martínez-Pastor, "Patterning of Conducting Polymers Using UV Lithography: The in-Situ Polymerization Approach", in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ACS Publicatins 2012

B. De Geyter, K. Komorowska, E. Brainis, P. Emplit, P. Geiregat, A. Hassinen, Z. Hens, D. Van Thourhout, From fabrication to mode mapping in silicon nitride microdisk with embedded colloidal quantum dots, Applied Physics Letters, 101(16), p.161101~4 (2012).

Yolanda Justo, Bart Goris, John Sundar Kamal, Pieter Geiregat, Sara Bals, and Zeger Hens, "Multiple Dot-in-Rod PbS/CdS Heterostructures with High Photoluminescence Quantum Yield in the Near-Infrared", Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 5484-5487.

Henry Gordillo, Isaac Suarez, Rafael Abargues, Pedro Rodriguez-Cantó, Sandra Albert Juan Martinez-Pastor, "Polymer/QDs nanocomposites for wave-guiding applications", Journal of nanomaterials, 2012, 960201 (2012).

A. Bueno, I. Suárez, R. Abargues, S. Sales and J. Martínez-Pastor, "Temperature sensor based on colloidal Quantum Dots-PMMA nanocomposite waveguides", IEEE sensors, 12, 3069-3074 (2012).

R. García-Calzada, P. Rodríguez-Cantó, V. Chirvony, R. Abargues, J. Martínez-Pastor, "Gold nanoparticles obtained by pulsed laser ablation in liquids: formation of monolayers on chemically functionalized patterns/substrates", ANGEL 2012 - 2nd Conference on Laser Ablation and Nanoparticle Generation in Liquids Taormina (Sicilia), Italy, 22/05/2012.

H. Gordillo; I. Suárez; P. Rodríguez-Cantó; R. Abargues; R. García-Calzada; V. Chyrvony; S. Albert; J. Martínez-Pastor, "Colloidal QDs-polymer nanocomposites", SPIE Photonics Europe Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 16 - 19 April 2012, Published as Proceedings in SPIE Vol. 8424, 30 April 2012, ISBN: 9780819491169

R. Abargues, P. J. Rodríguez-Cantó, R. García-Calzada and J. Martínez-Pastor, "Patterning of conducting polymers using UV lithography: the in-situ polymerization approach," Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116 17547-17553 (2012).

Yolanda Justo, Bart Goris, John Sundar Kamal, Pieter Geiregat, Sara Bals, and Zeger Hens, "Multiple Dot-in-Rod PbS/CdS Heterostructures with High Photoluminescence Quantum Yield in the Near-Infrared", Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 5484-5487.

B. De Geyter, Houtepen, Arjan J., Carrillo, Sergio, P. Geiregat, Gao, Yunan, Ten Cate, Sybren, Schins, Juleon M., D. Van Thourhout, Delerue, Cristophe, Siebbeles, Laurens D.A., Hens, Zeger, "Broadband and Picosecond Intraband Relaxation in Lead-Based Colloidal Quantum Dots", accepted for ACS Nano 2012 July, 24;6(7):6067-74.

Yolanda Justo, Bart Goris, John Sundar Kamal, Pieter Geiregat, Sara Bals, and Zeger Hens, "Multiple Dot-in-Rod PbS/CdS Heterostructures with High Photoluminescence Quantum Yield in the Near-Infrared", Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 5484-5487.

V. Dolores-Calzadilla, D. Heiss, A. Fiore, M. K. Smit, "Metallo-dielectric nanolaser coupled to an InP-membrane waveguide", Proceeding of the 17th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, 2012.

V. Dolores-Calzadilla, A. Fiore, M. K. Smit, "Towards plasmonic lasers for optical interconnects", IEEE Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Optical Transparent Networks, 2012.

Conference contributions

Links to the conference WEB sites below are valid as long as supported by the conference organization.

IC Group IV Photonics 2015, 26-28 August 2015, Vancouver (Canada)

W. Xie, Y. Zhu, Tangi Aubert, Zeger Hens, Edouard Brainis, D. Van Thourhout, "On-chip Hybrid Integration of Silicon Nitride Microdisk With Colloidal Quantum Dots", submitted for publication in 12th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, (accepted).

OPTOEL 2015, 13-15 July 2015, Salamanca (Spain)

A. Maulu, P. Javier Rodríguez Cantó, J. Navarro Arenas, R. Abargues and J. Martínez Pastor, Photodetectors at 1.3-1.7 ?m Based on Thin Films of PbS Quantum Dots. Poster. IX Reunión Española de Optoelectrónica (IX Spanish Meeting of Optoelectronics), OPTOEL2015, Salamanca (Spain), 13-15 July 2015.

Suárez, J. Marques Hueso, R. Abargues, P. Rodríguez-Cantó and J. Martínez-Pastor, QD-PMMA nanocomposite plasmonic waveguides. Poster. IX Reunión Española de Optoelectrónica (IX Spanish Meeting of Optoelectronics), OPTOEL2015, Salamanca (Spain), 13-15 July 2015.

M. Signoretto, I. Suárez, R. Abargues, P. Rodríguez-Cantó, M. L. Martínez, V. Chirvony and J. Martínez-Pastor, Integration of metal nanoparticles in organic waveguides. Poster. IX Reunión Española de Optoelectrónica (IX Spanish Meeting of Optoelectronics), OPTOEL2015, Salamanca (Spain), 13-15 July 2015.

Advanced Photonics 2015, 27 June - 1 July 2015, Boston (US)

C. Hoessbacher, W. Heni, A. Melikyan, Y. Fedoryshyn, C. Haffner, B. Baeuerle, A. Josten, D. Hillerkuss, Y. Salamin, M. Kohl, D. Elder, L. Dalton, C. Hafner, and J. Leuthold, "Dense Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator Array for High-Speed Optical Interconnects," in Advanced Photonics 2015 (Optical Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015), p. IM2B.1.

Nanomeeting 2015, 26-29 May 2015, Minsk (Belarus)

A. Maulu, P. J. RodríGuez-Cantó, J. P. Martínez Pastor, Efficient photodetectors at telecom wavelengths based on thin films of lead sulfide quantum dots, Nanomeeting 2015, 26-29 May 2015, Minsk (Belarus), oral contribution. PUBLISHED IN "Physics, Chemistry and Application of Nanostructures (Proceedings of International Conference Nanomeeting - 2015)", World Scientific Pub. Co., ISBN 978-981-4696-51-7, pp. 556-559, 2015.

CLEO 2015, 10-15 May 2015, San Jose (US)

Muehlbrandt, S.; Melikyan, A.; Koehnle, K.; Harter, T.; Muslija, A.; Vincze, P.; Wolf, S.; Jakobs, P. -J.; Fedoryshyn, Y.; Freude, W.; Leuthold, J.; Koos, C.; Kohl, M. Plasmonic Internal Photoemission Detectors with Responsivities above 0.12 A/W, Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'15), San Jose (CA), USA, May 10-15 , paper FTh3E. Optical Society of America (OSA) (2015).

Melikyan, A.; Koehnle, K.; Lauermann, M.; Palmer, R.; Koeber, S.; Muehlbrandt, S.; Schindler, P. C.; Elder, D. L.; Wolf, S.; Heni, W.; Haffner, C.; Fedoryshyn, Y.; Hillerkuss, D.; Sommer, M.; Dalton, L. R.; Van Thourhout, D.; Freude, W.; Kohl, M.; Leuthold, J.; Koos, C., Plasmonic-organic hybrid (POH) modulators for OOK and BPSK signaling at 40 Gbit/s, Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'15), San Jose (CA), USA, May 10-15 , paper SM1I.1. Optical Society of America (OSA) (2015).

MRS Spring Meeting, 6-10 April 2015, San Francisco (US)

P. Geiregat, A.J. Houtepen, F.C. Grozema, D. Van Thourhout, Z. Hens, "Picosecond All-Optical Wavelength Conversion using Hot Carrier Intraband Absorption in Colloidal PbS Nanocrystals", MRS Spring Meeting - WW4.04, United States, (2015).

OFC 2015, 22-26 March 2015, Los Angeles (US)

W. Heni, A. Melikyan, C. Haffner, Y. Fedoryshyn, B. Baeuerle, A. Josten, J. Niegemann, D. Hillerkuss, M. Kohl, D. Elder, L. Dalton, C. Hafner, and J. Leuthold, "Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator with >70 GHz Electrical Bandwidth Demonstrating 90 Gbit/s 4-ASK," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference (Optical Society of America, Los Angeles, California, 2015), p. Tu2A.2.

D. Hillerkuss, and J. Leuthold, "Software-Defined Transceivers for Dynamic Access Networks", in Optical Fiber Communication Conference (Optical Society of America, Los Angeles, California, 2015), p. Tu2E.4.

IEEE Photonics Benelux 2014, 3-4 November 2013, Enschede (Netherlands)

W. Xie, D. Van Thourhout, "Fabrication of high-Q silicon nitride microdisk resonator coupled with on-chip waveguide", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Netherlands, p.145-148 (2014).

MNE 2014, 22-26 September 2014, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Muehlbrandt, S.; Muslija, A.; Koehnle, K.; Melikyan, A.; Leuthold, J.; Kohl, M., "Fabrication of Ultra-Compact Plasmonic Waveguide Photo Diodes", Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE'2014 ), Lausanne, Switzerland , paper 8274 (2014).

ECOC 2014, 21-25 September, Cannes (France)

J. Leuthold, A. Melikyan, L. Alloatti, D. Korn, R. Palmer, D Hillerkuss, M. Lauermann, P. C. Schindler, B. Chen, R. Dinu, D. L. Elder, L. R. Dalton, C. Koos, M. Kohl, W. Freude, C. Hafner, "From silicon-organic hybrid to plasmonic modulation", Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on , 1-3, Cannes, France, September 21-25 (2014), (invited).

C. Haffner, W. Heni, Y. Fedoryshyn, D. L. Elder, A. Melikyan, B. Baeuerle, J. Niegemann, A. Emboras, A. Josten, F. Ducry, M. Kohl, L. R. Dalton, D. Hillerkuss, C. Hafner, and J. Leuthold, "High-speed plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator in a waveguide," in Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on(2014), pp. 1-3.

IPR 2014, 13-17 July, San Diego (US)

Melikyan, A.; Alloatti, L.; Muslija, A.; Hillerkuss, D.; Schindler, P. C.; Li, J.; Palmer, R.; Korn, D.; Lindenmann, N.; Muehlbrandt, S.; Walheim, S.; Vincze, P.; Leufke, P. M.; Ulrich, S.; Ye, J.; Thourhout, D. V.; Chen, B.; Dinu, R.; Sommer, M.; Hahn, H.; Schimmel, T.; Koos, C.; Kohl, M.; Freude, W.; Leuthold, J., "High-speed Plasmonic Modulators", Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR'14), San Diego, California United States, July 13-17 , paper IT2A.6 Optical Society of America (OSA) (2014).

ICTON 2014, 6-10 July 2014, Graz (Austria)

Suárez, E. P. Fitrakis, R. Abargues, P. Rodriguez-Cantó, I. Tomkos and J. Martinez-Pastor, "Photon plasmon coupling in nanocomposite plasmonic waveguides", 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2014) July 2014, Graz, Austria, oral (invited). PUBLISHED IN Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2014), IEEE Conf. Pubs., ISBN 978-1-4799-5600-5, DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876431 pp. 1-4 (2014).

ICC 2014, 15-18 June 2014, Madrid (Spain)

A. Maulu, P.J. Rodríguez-Cantó, I. Suarez, R. Abargues, J.P. Martinez-Pastor, "Fabrication of solution-processed QD-solids by doctor blading technique and their application for photodetection", 4th International Colloids Conference, 15-18 June 2014, Madrid (Spain), Poster.

CLEO 2014, 8-13 June 2014, San Jose (US)

Hoessbacher, C.; Fedoryshyn, Y.; Emboras,A.; Hillerkuss, D.; Melikyan, A.; Kohl, M.; Sommer, M.; Hafner, C.; Leuthold, J., "High Extinction Ratio and Energy Efficient Plasmonic Switch based on Reversible Nanofilament Formation", submitted to CLEO 2014.

P. Geiregat, A. Houtepen, L.K. Sagar, C. Delerue, G. Allan, D. Van Thourhout, Z. Hens, "Thresholdless Optical Gain using Colloidal HgTe Nanocrystals", CLEO, United States, p.paper FtH4C4 (2014).

W. Xie, D. Van Thourhout, "High-Q Free-standing Silicon Nitride Microdisk Vertically Coupled with On-chip Waveguide", CLEO 2014, United States, (2014).

C. Hoessbacher, Y. Fedoryshyn, A. Emboras, D. Hillerkuss, A. Melikyan, M. Kohl, M. Sommer, C. Hafner, and J. Leuthold, "Latching Plasmonic Switch with High Extinction Ratio", in CLEO: 2014 (Optical Society of America, San Jose, California, 2014), p. FTu3K.6.

ICQD 2014, 11-16 May 2014, Pisa (Italy)

A. Maulu, P. J. Rodríguez-Cantó and J. P. Martínez-Pastor, "Colloidal QD-solid photodetectors produced by doctor-blading based on two configurations: nano-gap (MIM) vs Schottky/heterostructure", 8th International Conference on Quantum Dots, 11-16 May 2014, Pisa (Italy), Oral.

ICTON 2013, 23-27 June 2013, Cartagena (Spain)

I. Suárez, E. P. Fitrakis, H. Gordillo, P. Rodriguez-Cantó, R. Abargues, I. Tomkos and J. Martinez-Pastor, "Light coupling from active polymer layers to hybrid dielectric-plasmonic waveguides", ICTON 2013, Spain, June 2013.

CLEO 2013, 9-14 June 2013, San Jose (US)

Dries Van Thourhout, "Silicon Photonics: short course (3 hours)", CLEO Europe 2013, May 2013, Munich.

Melikyan, A.; Alloatti, L.; Muslija, A.; Hillerkuss, D.; Schindler, P. C.; Li, J.; Palmer, R.; Korn, D.; Muehlbrandt, S.; Thourhout, D. V.; Chen, B.; Dinu, R.; Sommer, M.; Koos, C.; Kohl, M.; Freude, W.; Leuthold, J., "Surface Plasmon Polariton High-Speed Modulator", Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'13), San Jose (CA), USA, June 9-14 , paper CTh5D.2 Optical Society of America (2013) (postdeadline).

P. Geiregat, Y. Justo, A. Omari, S. Abe, S. Flamee, Z. Hens, D. Van Thourhout, "Absorption Enhancement in 2D Nanocrystal Superlattices through Near-Field Dipolar Coupling: A Novel Optical Phenomenon at the Nanoscale", CLEO (USA), (2013).

SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference 2013, 25-28 February 2013, San Jose (US)

R. Abargues, M. L. Martínez-Marco, P. J. Rodriguez-Cantó, J. Marques-Hueso, and J. P. Martínez-Pastor, "Metal-polymer nanocomposite resist: a step towards in-situ nanopatterns metallization", Proc. SPIE 8682, Advances in Resist Materials and Processing Technology XXX, 86820X (8 pgs) (2013); SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, San José, USA, 25-28 February 2013.

P. J. Rodríguez-Cantó; M. L. Martínez-Marco; R. Abargues ; V. Latorre-Garrido and J. P. Martínez-Pastor, "Novel patternable and conducting metal-polymer nanocomposites: a step towards advanced mutlifunctional materials", Proc. SPIE 8682, Advances in Resist Materials and Processing Technology XXX, (9 pgs) (2013); SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, San José, USA, 25-28 February 2013.

R.Abargues, M. Martínez-Marco, P. J. Rodríguez-Cantó, J. Marqués-Hueso, J. Martínez-Pastor, "Metal-polymer nanocomposite resists: a step toward in situ nanopatterns metallization", Talk at the SPIE advanced lithography (California, EEUU) 02/2013.

J. Rodríguez-Cantó, M. Martínez-Marco, R. Abargues, V. Latorre-Garrido, J. P. Martínez-Pastor, "Novel patternable and conducting metal-polymer nanocomposite: a step toward advanced multifunctional materials", Talk at the SPIE advanced lithography (California, EEUU) 02/2013.

ICSPP 2013, 26-31 May 2013, Ottawa (Canada)

Suárez, E.P. Fitrakis, P. Geiregat, H. Gordillo, Y. Justo, P.J. Rodríguez-Cantó, Z. Hens, R. Abargues, D. Van Thourhout, I. Tomkos and J.P. Martínez-Pastor, International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics, SPP6, 2013, Ottawa, Canada, oral.

IEEE Photonics Benelux 2013, 25-26 November 2013, Eindhoven (Netherlands)

Y. Zhu, W. Xie, S. Verstuyft, Tangi Aubert, Zeger Hens, D. Van Thourhout, "Colloidal quantum dot silicon nitride platform", Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Belenux Chapter, Netherlands, p.175-178 (2013).

ICTON 2013, 23-27 June 2013, Cartagena (Spain)

V. Dolores-Calzadilla, D. Heiss, A. Fiore, M. K. Smit, "Waveguide-coupled nanolasers in III-V membranes on silicon", IEEE Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Optical Transparent Networks, 2013.

Suárez, E. P. Fitrakis, P. Rodriguez-Cantó, R. Abargues, I. Tomkos and J. Martinez-Pastor, "Surface plasmon-polariton amplifiers", 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2013), June 2013, Cartagena (Spain), Oral (invited). PUBLISHED IN Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2012), IEEE Conf. Pubs., ISBN 978-1-4673-2228-7, pp. Th.A5.2-1/5 (2012).

OECC/PS2013, 30 June - 4 July 2013, Kyoto (Japan)

V. Dolores-Calzadilla, D. Heiss, A. Fiore, M. K. Smit, "Nanometallic lasers for optical interconnects", The 18th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference/Photonics in Switching, 2013.

E-MRS Spring Meeting 2013, 2013, Strasbourg (France)

B. De Geyter, P. Geiregat, K. Komorowska, A. Hassinen, E. Brainis, D. Van Thourhout, Z. Hens, "Embedding Colloidal Nanocrystals in Silicon Nitride Micro-Disk Resonators: From mode-mapping to single dot spectroscopy", E-MRS Spring Meeting (2013).

P. Geiregat, Y. Justo, A. Omari, S. Abe, S. Flamee, Z. Hens, D. Van Thourhout, "Giant And Broadband Absorption Enhancement in colloidal nanocrystal monolayers through dipolar coupling", E-MRS Spring Meeting (2013).

Micro&Nano 2012, 7-10 October 2012, Heraklion (Greece)

E. P. Fitrakis, I. Suarez, P. Rodriguez-Canto, J. Martinez-Pastor, I. Tomkos, "Geometries for surface plasmon-polaritons amplification in the context of the EU project NAVOLCHI", Micro&Nano Conference 2012, Greece, October 2012.

CEN 2012, 1-4 October 2012, Carmona (Spain)

Poster contribution at the Spanish Conference of Nanophotonics CEN2012 (Carmona, Spain) 09/2012.

H. Gordillo, I. Suárez, P. Rodríguez-Cantó, R. Abargues, S. Albert and J. Martínez- Pastor, "Waveguides based on Colloidal QDs embedded in PMMA and SU8", Talk contribution at the Spanish Conference on Nanophotonics CEN2012 (Carmona, Spain) 09/2012.

I. Suárez, E. P. Fitrakis, P. Rodriguez-Cantó, R. Abargues, H. Gordillo, I. Tomkos and J. Martinez-Pastor, "Colloidal QDs/PMMA nanocomposites as a material to provide gain in surface plasmon polaritons", Poster contribution at the Spanish Conference on Nanophotonics CEN2012 (Carmona, Spain) 09/2012.

M. L. Martinez-Marco, P. J. Rodriguez-Canto, R. Abargues, V. Latorre-Garrido and J. P. Martinez-Pastor, "In - situ synthesis of conducting polymers and gold nano particles into PMMA", submitted to CEN 2012

ELOPTO 2012, 2-5 September 2012, Gent (Belgium)

Pieter Geiregat, Floris Tallieu, Philippe Smet, Kilian Devloo - Casier, Sreeparvathi Warrier, Dries Van Thourhout and Zeger Hens, "Integrated light source for silicon photonics using colloidal nanocrystal light emitters under AC field excitation", ELOPTO 2012

ICTON 2012, 2-5 July 2012, Warwick (GB)

I. Suárez, E. P. Fitrakis, P. Rodriguez-Cantó, R. Abargues, I. Tomkos and J. Martinez-Pastor, "Surface plasmon-polariton amplifiers", Talk at the International Conference of Transparent Optical Networks ICTON (Warwick, England) 06/2012.

Dolores-Calzadilla V, Fiore A, Smit MK, "Towards Plasmonic Lasers for Optical Interconnects", ICTON 2012. Warwick (GB); 2012:5-8.

Melikyan A, Sommer M, Muslija A, et al., "Chip-to-Chip Plasmonic Interconnects and the Activities of EU Project NAVOLCHI", ICTON 2012, Warwick (GB); 2012:14-16.

De Geyter B, Houtepen AJ, Carrillo S, et al., "Broadband and Picosecond Intraband Absorption in Lead-Based Colloidal Quantum Dots.", ICTON 2012, Warwick (GB); 2012:3-6. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22686663.

V. Dolores-Calzadilla, A. Fiore, M. K. Smit, "Towards plasmonic lasers for optical interconnects", IEEE Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2012.

Bram De Geyter, Pieter Geiregat, Arjan Houtepen, Dries Van Thourhout and Zeger Hens, "Ultrafast Photoinduced Intraband Absorption in PbS, PbSe and PbSe/CdSe Core/shell Nanocrystals for Near-infrared to Mid-infrared All-optical Signal Processing", ICTON, Warwick (UK), 2012.

International Quantum Dot Conference 2012 (QD 2012), 13-18 May 2012, Santa Fe (US)

P. Geiregat, B. De Geyter, S. Carillo, A. Houtepen, Y. Gao, S. Ten Cate, J. Schins, D. Van Thourhout, C. Delerue, L. Siebbeles, Z. Hens, "Broadband and Picosecond Intraband Relaxation in Lead Chalcogenide Nanocrystals", International Quantum Dot Conference 2012, (2012).

P. Geiregat, Y. Justo, H. Zeger, "Giant Absorption Enhancement in Colloidal Quantum Dot Supercrystals", International Quantum Dot Conference 2012, United States, (2012).

NaNaX 5, 7-11 May 2012, Fuengirola (Spain)

Dries Van Thourhout, "Collodial quantum dots for silicon photonics", invited presentation at NaNaX 5, Fuengirola (Spain)

Yolanda Justo, Bart Goris, John Sundar Kamal, Pieter Geiregat, Sara Bals and Zeger Hens, "PbS/CdS core/shell nanorods, highly luminescent anisotropic near infrared nanomaterials by cationic exchange", NaNaX 5, Fuengirola (Spain), 2012.

Pieter Geiregat, Yolanda Justo, Zeger Hens, "Absorption enhancement in colloidal quantum dot monolayers through coherent dipolar coupling", NaNaX 5, Fuengirola (Spain), 2012.

Bram De Geyter, Pieter Geiregat, Yunan Gao, Sybren ten Cate, Arjan J. Houtepen, Juleon M. Schins, Dries Van Thourhout, Laurens D.A. Siebbeles, Zeger Hens, "Broadband and Ultrafast Intraband Absorption in Lead based Colloidal Quantum Dots", NaNaX 5, Fuengirola (Spain), 2012.

ECIO 2012, 18-20 April 2012, Barcelona (Spain)

I. Suárez, H. Gordillo, P. Rodríguez-Cantó, R. Abargues, S. Albert and J. Martínez-Pastor, "Multicolor wave-guiding in polymer/quantum dot nanocomposite waveguides"

ITC 2012, 30-31 January 2012, Lisbon (Portugal)

Abstract: Rodriguez-Canto et al. "In-situ synthesis of conducting polymers into patternable polymer matrices"

MRS Fall Meeting 2011, 28 November - 2 December 2011, Boston (US)

B. De Geyter, P. Geiregat, A. J. Houtepen, D. Van Thourhout, L. Siebbeles, Z. Hens, "Ultrafast Photoinduced Intraband Absorption in PbS, PbSe and PbSe/CdSe Core/Shell Nanocrystals for near-Infrared to Mid-Infrared All-Optical Signal Processing", MRS Fall Meeting 2011, United States, (2011).

Pieter Geiregat, Yolanda Justo and Zeger Hens, "Giant Absorption Enhancement in Close Packed Monolayers of Colloidal Quantum Dots through Dipolar Coupling Effects", MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (US), 2011.

IEEE Photonics Conference 2011, 9-13 October 2011, Arlington (US)

Q. Lu, P. Geiregat, D. Van Thourhout, Zeger Hens, "Design of Nanocrystal Light Source for Silicon Photonics", IEEE Photonics Annual Meeting 2011, WP4, United States, p.527-528 (2011).