The existing infrastructure for managing the flow of information along the photonic pathways and in our computers is in most segments based on electrically encoded information and the transport of electric charges using the electric force. This process is limiting the speed of signal propagation and is costly in terms of energy dissipation. The predicted worldwide energy consumption of data centers for 2050 is approaching the electric energy generated in the European Union in 2010! It is...

Satyendra Kumar gives a talk at the LC2CAM conference about living and manmade photonics systems and liquid crystals in organic photovoltaics.

Rachel Won talks about the magazine Nature Photonics at the LC2CAM conference.

Stanislav Chernyshuk, Institute of Physics Abstract: A direct observation of the photochemical switching between colloidal crystals with different lattice constants in a liquid-crystal emulsion is reported. Glycerol droplets introduced in a nematic liquid crystal form two-dimensional hexagonal colloidal crystal at the nematic-air interface with a lattice constant depending on the surface tension LCA. We dope an azobenzene derivative into the LC emulsion to modulate the colloidal structures...

Sacha Grigorento discusses optical metamaterials at the Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics (I-CAMP) Summer School in Beijing, China, July 17, 2009. Learn about this event at: http://icamconferences.org/i-camp/ Learn more about the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) at: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/ Read about future events here: http://icam-i2cam.org/index.php/events/

Tomasz Wolinski discusses photonic crystal fibers at the Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics (I-CAMP) Summer School in Beijing, China, July 17, 2009. Learn about this event at: http://icamconferences.org/i-camp/ Learn more about the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) at: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/ Read about future events here: http://icam-i2cam.org/index.php/events/

Phillip Russel discusses photonic crystal fibers at the Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics (I-CAMP) Summer School in Beijing, China, July 17, 2009. Learn about this event at: http://icamconferences.org/i-camp/ Learn more about the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) at: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/ Read about future events here: http://icam-i2cam.org/index.php/events/

Phillip Russel discusses photonic crystal fibers at the Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics (I-CAMP) Summer School in Beijing, China, July 17, 2009. Learn about this event at: http://icamconferences.org/i-camp/ Learn more about the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) at: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/ Read about future events here: http://icam-i2cam.org/index.php/events/

Sacha Grigorento discusses optical metamaterials at the Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics (I-CAMP) Summer School in Beijing, China, July 17, 2009. Learn about this event at: http://icamconferences.org/i-camp/ Learn more about the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) at: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/ Read about future events here: http://icam-i2cam.org/index.php/events/

Philippe Poulin discusses composite materials based on carbon nanotubes at the Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics (I-CAMP) Summer School in Beijing, China, July 16, 2009. Learn about this event at: http://icamconferences.org/i-camp/ Learn more about the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) at: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/ Read about future events here: http://icam-i2cam.org/index.php/events/