Event Details

Ultrafast nano-photonics

Presenter: Dr. Qiying Chen - Canada Research Chair, Tier II, Dept. of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Date: Fri, May 20, 2011
Time: 14:00:00 - 15:00:00
Place: EOW 430

ABSTRACT

Abstract

This talk reports my recent research on ultrafast nano-photonics and current research activities in my group at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Ultrafast nano-photonics is an optical nanotechnology aiming to achieve a spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit and a temporal resolution at ultrafast scale. I will present my recent research in this field, which includes super-resolution for nanoscale optical data storage and high-speed nanolithography, femtosecond laser microprocessing, and ultrafast nonlinear photonics of fullerene derivatives breaching quantum limits. I will also introduce the research activities in my group, including organic nanostructured bulk beterojunction solar cells with improved efficiency, femtosecond laser microfabrication of fiber interferometers and optofluidic devices.

Biography

Qiying Chen is a Canada Research Chair in Photonics (Tier 2) and an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is cross-appointed to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University. He received Ph.D. degree in optics from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996. He worked in Japan from 1996 to 2000, first as a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University and then as a researcher in the National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Photonics Group at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2002. He worked as a research associate in the National Research Council of Canada before joining Memorial University in 2004 as the Canada Research Chair. His research group at Memorial University is working on ultrafast nano-photonics and the relevant interdisciplinary research.

For further information please contact:
Dr. Tao Lu
phone: 250 721 8617 / email: taolu@ece.uvic.ca