Special symposia

Special symposia at META 2027

Six special symposia form part of the META 2027 program, covering defined topics in metamaterials, nanophotonics and phononics. Symposium papers follow the same submission and review process as other conference contributions.

Symposium I

Hybrid Nanomaterials and Metastructures for Photonics, Sensing and Energy

This Special Symposium focuses on both experimental and theoretical studies of optically active hybrid nanomaterials, such as semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, polymers, biomolecules, etc. The Symposium is dedicated to a wide range of fundamental investigations and applications of optically active materials, including bottom-up synthesis, top-down nanofabrication, and the chemical and physical examination of the new properties of these hybrid nanomaterials.

The central issues to be addressed in the Symposium are new physical and chemical functionalities arising from novel nanostructure and/or interactions between nanoscale building blocks.

Symposium Chairs

Jérôme PlainTechnological University of Troyes, France

Alexander GovorovOhio University, USA

Davy GérardTechnological University of Troyes, France

Pedro Hernandez MartinezNanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Invited Speakers

Invited speakers will be announced once confirmed.

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Symposium III

Advanced passive and active metasurfaces and zero-index materials

Metasurfaces are arrays of subwavelength anisotropic light scatterers (optical antennas) that can produce abrupt changes in the phase, amplitude, or polarization of light. Recent years have seen significant progress in the design of metasurfaces that refract and focus light, enabling unique properties and applications such as holograms, optical vortex generation and detection, ultrathin focusing lenses and perfect absorbers.

This symposium will cover the fundamental principles and technological applications of metasurfaces, and aims in particular to explore new materials, structures and advanced optical functionalities of metasurfaces, for applications spanning imaging, bio- and chemical sensing, energy harvesting, communications and data storage.

Symposium Chairs

Howard LeeUniversity of California, Irvine, USA

Pin Chieh WuNational Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Wen-Hui (Sophia) ChengNational Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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Symposium V

Architectured Elastic and Acoustic Metamaterials & Phononic Crystals

The scientific interest in elastic and acoustic metamaterials / phononic crystals has witnessed remarkable growth in recent years. This is due to their great potential to achieve unconventional dynamic and quasi-static behaviors, as well as to the advancement of the manufacturing techniques leading to increasingly complex designs ("architectures") spanning multiple scale lengths or allowing space and time modulation of the material properties.

Symposium Chairs

Jensen LiHKUST, Hong Kong

Jean-Philippe GrobyUniversité du Mans, France

Vincent PagneuxLAUM - CNRS, France

Vicent Romero-GarcíaUniversitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Stefano LauretiUniversity of Calabria, Italy

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Invited Speakers

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Interested in organizing a focused session?

META also welcomes proposals for Special Sessions on emerging themes.