Poster Presentations

P1 Mario Agio, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Impurity modes in a photonic crystal: coupling efficiency and quality factor
P2 Ivan Alvarado-Rodriguez, UCLA Optoelectronics, Los Angeles, CA Photonic crystal defect cavities in InGaAs
P3 Richard Amos, DERA, United Kingdom Fabrication of large-are colloidal crystals using one- and two-dimensional shear
P4 Dimitris Angelakis, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom Coherent effects in two band photonic crystals
P5 Vasily Astratov, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Direct study of heavy photon dispersions in photonic crystal waveguides
P6 Mark Auslender, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel On the correct use of plane-wave discretization in photonic-structure simulation: Grating diffraction example
P7 Mehmet Bayindir, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Propagation of photons through localized coupled-cavity modes in photonic band gap structures
P8 Mona Berciu, University of Toronto, Canada Theory of fluorescence in three-dimensional photonic crystals
P9 Navin Bhat, University of Toronto, Canada Optical pulse propagation in nonlinear photonic crystals
P10 Alvaro Blanco, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Marta Ibisate, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Photonic properties of CdS inverted opals
P11 Muriel Botey Cumella, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, barcelona, Spain Momentum nonconserving interactoin within a layer of nonlinear material localized in a subwavelength region of the space
P12 Niclas Carlsson, FESTA, Ibaraki, Japan Formation of 2D photonic crystal airbridge structures in AlGaAs based semiconductor heterostructures
P13 Martin Charlton, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Analysis of photonic crystal waveguide devices
P14 Crina Maria Cojocaru, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Dispersive properties of a truncated 1-dimensional photonic crystal
P15 M. Cornelia Cuisin, Institut d'Electronique fondamentale, Orsay, France PMMA resist templates for dielectric and metallic "Yablonovite" photonic crystals at submicrometer scales
P16 Michiel de Dood,FOM, The Netherlands Fabrication and optical doping of 1, 2, and 3-dimensional photonic materials using ion beams
P17 George Deligeorgis, FORTH, Crete, Greece Application of reactive ion etching for GaAs-based integrated optoelectronics
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Ihab El-Kady, Iowa State University, United States Waveguides in two-dimensional photonic band gap structures

Metallic photonic crystals at optical wavelengths

P20 Stefan Enoch, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de St. Jérome, Marseille, France Anomalous refractive properties of photonic crystals at the band edges
P21 Nayer Eradat, University of Utah, United States Optical studies of metal infiltrated opal photonic crystals
P22 Alexei Erchak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Increased light extraction from a light-emitting diode using a two-dimensional photonic crystal
P23 Jan Fagerstrom,FOA, Sweden Characterization of a three-dimensional microwave photonic crystal
P24 Lucia Florescu, University of Toronto, Canada Time-dependent diffusion model of lasting in a random amplifying medium
P25 Marian Florescu, University of Toronto, Canada Non-Markovian atomic switching in photonic band gap materials
P26 Eliane Flück, University of Twente, The Netherlands Light interference in waveguides containing periodic one-dimensional air rod arrays
P27 Stavroula Foteinopoulou, Iowa State University, United States Tight Binding Parametrization of Photonic Crystals
P28 Valentin Freilikher,Bar-Ilan University, Israel Transport and localizations in quasi-one-dimensional systems
P29 Antonio Garcia-Martin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Conductance distributions and transport eigenchannels: From conductance quantization to Anderson localization
P30 Florencio Garcia Santamaria, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Photonic properties of CdS inverted opals
P31 Jacek Generowicz, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Modelling photonic crystals using finite elements
P32 Cécile Goffaux, Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, FUNDP, Namur, Belgium Acoustic and elastic waves propagation in two and three dimensional periodic heterostructures
P33 Jaime Gomez Rivas, Van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Optical experiments on germanium powders close to the Anderson localization transition
P34 Raquel Gomez-Medina, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Enhanced electromagnetic field-particle interactions in a waveguide
P35 Serguei Grabtchak, University of Toronto, Canada Self-assembly of 3-D PBG materials
P36 Boris Gralak, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Centre de Saint Jérome, France Transmission by photonic crystals: unbounded transfer operators approach
P37 Zhong-Ze Gu, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, Japan Control of photonic band structure by photo-irradiation
P38 Christian Hermann, Institute of Technical Physics, Germany Lightfield propagation in 2D photonic crystal slab waveguide structures
P39 Reinald Hillebrand, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany Theoretical study of complete photonic band gaps for varying 2D filling patterns of oval-shaped type
P40 Arnout Imhof, Van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Diffusive and coherent transport of light in strongly scattering porous GaP
P41 Steven Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Photonic crystals in 3D planar structures and integrated optics
P42 Maria Kafesaki, University of Crete, and FORTH, Crete, Greece Band gaps phenomena in twinned periodic elastic composites
P43 Robin Kaiser,INLN, France Coherent backscattering of light by laser cooled atoms
P44 Erik Knudsen, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Waveguiding properties of photonic crystal fibres
P45 Femius Koenderink, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Enhanced backscattering from photonic crystals
P46 Patrick Kramper, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany Spectroscopy of defect modes in photonic crystals
P47 Sissy Kyriazidou, University of California--Los Angeles, United States Fundamental electromagnetic excitation of PBG materials: A formal analogy of PBG and natural crystals
P48 Miguel Laso, Public University of Navarre, Spain; Txema Lopetegi, Public University of Navarre, Spain Photonic crystals in microstrip technology
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Ralk Lenke, University of Konstanz, Germany Magnetic Field Effects on Coherent Backscattering in case of Mie Scattering
Comparison between the `The Glory' and Coherent Backscattering of Light in turbid Media
P51 Stephen Leonard, University of Toronto, Canada Two-dimensional single-mode photonic crystal waveguides fabricated in silicon
P52 Marine Levassor d'Yerville, Universite Montpellier, France Influence of defect positions on the diffraction properties of photonic crystals
P53 Christian Liguda, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Three-dimensional finite difference time domain simulation and fabrication of 2d photonic bandgap structures in waveguides from low loss dielectrics
P54 Fernando López-Tejeira, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Diffraction effects in artificial opals
P55 Virginie Lousse, Facultés Universitares Notre -Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium Influence of illumination on the density of modes of photorefractive nonlinear photonic crystals
P56 Torsten Maka, Institut für Materialwissenschaften, Wuppertal, Germany Thin film photonic crystals
P57 Vinothan Manoharan, University of California--Santa Barbara, United States Ordered macroporous ritile titanium dioxide by emulsion templating
P58 Jesus Manzanares Martinez, Université Montpellier II, France Photonic defect states in imperfect coated opals
P59 Luis Martin-Moreno, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Self-Assembled triply periodic minimal surfaces as moulds for photonic band gap materials
P60 Beatriz Martinez, Public University of Navarra, Spain Patch antenna design with a photonic bandgap substrate
P61 Hernan Miguez, la Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Marta Ibisate, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Fabrication of Ge Inverse Opals
P62 Daniel Mittleman, Rice University, U.S.A. Using colloidal crystals as templates for the formation of novel photonic materials
P63 Jessica Mondia, University of Toronto, Canada Tunable two-dimensional photonic crystals using liquid crystal infiltration
P64 Maria Caterina Netti, University of Southampton, United Kingdom 2D photonic crystal waveguides: Band gaps and light cones
P65 Bianca Nelson, University of Stanford, CA, U.S.A. A periodic dielectric stack as a one-dimensional photonic crystal for wavelength demultiplexing by beam shifting
P66 Georgios Nikolopoulos, University of Crete, Greece Beyond single-photon localization at the edge of a photonic band gap
P67 Ségolène Olivier, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France Optical properties of photonic crystal straight waveguides
P68 Raluca Penciu, University of Crete, Greece Vibrational modes in solution of copolymers
P69 Suresh Pereira, University of Toronto, Canada Canonical quantization of envelope function equations in a PBG material
P70 Alexandros Pertsinidis, Brown University, Providence, RI, U.S.A. Pinned colloidal crystals: Controlling the self-assembly of thin colloidal crystals with lithographically patterned substrates
P71 David Peyrade, Université Montpellier, France GaN 2D photonic crystals
P72 Felipe Pinheiro, Centro Brasileiro de Pequisas Fisicas, Brasil Multiple scattering of light in disordered magnetic media: Localization parameter, transport velocity and diffusion constant
P73 Luca Plattner, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Advances in modelling of Morpho-type diffracive structures
P74 Vladimir Poborchii, National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Japan Photonic-band-gap properties of 2-dimensional lattices of Si nanopillars
P75 Iounnis Psarobas, University of Athens, Greece A layer Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method for phononic crystals
P76 Min Qiu, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Studying photonic band-gap structures by finite-difference time-domain method
P77 Rajesh Rengarajan, Rice University, United States Controlling the optical band gap properties of macroporous polymers by the application of mechanical compression
P78 Andrew Reynolds, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Analysis of membrane support structures for integrated antenna usage on 2-dimensional photonic band gap structures
P79 Jorge Ripoll, ICMM, Spain Multiple layered diffusive media: Theory and experiments
P80 Andrey Rogach, University of Hamburg, Germany Chemical route to three-dimensional colloidal photonic crystals doped with semiconductor nanoparticles
P81 José Sanchez-Dehesa, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Vacancy lattices in two dimensional acoustic crystals
P82 Juan Vicente Sanchez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Bandgap enhancement in two dimensional sonic crystals
P83 Jorg Schilling, Max-Planck-Institut for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany Photonic crystals made of macroporous silicon: Down to near IR, up to 3 dimensions
P84 Serguei Skipetrov, CNRS, France Temporal fluctuations and instabilities of waves in nonlinear disordered media
P85 David Taylor, DERA, United Kingdom Colloidal crystals in a liquid crystal host
P86 Burak Temelkuran, Bilkent University, Turkey Silicon micromachined quasi-metallic photonic crystals
P87 Victor Tikhomirov, University of Leeds, United Kingdom High refractive index chalcogenide glasses for photonic band-gap devices
P88 Adriaan TIp, FOM, The Netherlands Band structure for absorptive photonic crystals
P89 Ovidiu Toader, University of Toronto, Canada Photonic crystals exhibiting full photonic band gaps
P90 Han van der Lem, FOM, AMOLF, The Netherlands Two-dimensional Complete Photonic-Bandgap Structures in the Visible
P91 Jerome Vasseur, Universite de Lille, France Defect mode in one-dimensoinal combined photonic waveguides--application to the resonant tunneling between two continua
P92 Krassimir Velikov, Utrechyt University, The Netherlands Photonic crystals from core-shell colloidal particles
P93 Jean-Pol Vigneron, Facultes Universitaires Notre Dame De La Paix, Belgium Tight-binding description of polarization waves in periodic arrays of metal dots
P94 Joachim Wagner, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany Preparation of Mesoscale Ordered Structures by Means of Immobilized Colloidal Crystals
P95 Vassilos Yannopapas, NTVA, Greece Effect of moderate disorder on the absorbance of plasma spheres distributed in a host dielectric medium
P96 Marcel Doosje, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Scattering of light on the surface of a photonic crystal
P97 P. Halevi, INAOE, Mexico Tunable photonic crystals with semiconducting constituents
P98 E. Chatziheodoridis, Institut fuer Feinwerktechnik Metallo-dielectirc photonic band-gap structures in the millimeter-wave region
P100 R. Miller, Optical Switch Corp. U.S.A. NA



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