We are soliciting invited speaker nominations for the American Physical Society March 2017 meeting, focus topic on "Electron, Exciton, and Phonon transport" described below. Please send nominations to Maria Chan ([email protected]) by September 7, 2016.

Electron, Exciton, and Phonon Transport in Nanostructures (DMP/DCMP)

Understanding and controlling how heat, charge, and energy flow at the nanoscale is critical for realizing the potential of nanomaterials in next generation device technologies. Of particular challenge, and opportunity, is understanding how elementary excitations such as phonons, electrons, holes, excitons, and plasmons interact with each other and are influenced by interfaces, confinement, and quantum effects in nanostructures. This is particularly true for heterogeneous nanoscale materials and interfaces with varying degrees of electronic and phononic couplings, and distinct thermal and electrical impedances. Structural components used in hybrid nanostructures can be made of semiconductors, metals, molecules, liquids, etc.

Contributions are solicited in areas that reflect recent advances in experimental measurement, theory, and modeling of transport mechanisms in nanoscale materials and interfaces. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
•    Electron-phonon coupling and heat generation by hot charge carriers
•    Dynamics of energy and charge flow in nanostructured hybrid materials
•    Ultrafast dynamics of charge carriers, excitons and phonons in nanostructures and across nanoscale interfaces
•    Charge, heat, and exciton transport through metal-semiconductor interfaces
•    Non-equilibrium heat transport and phonon-bottlenecks effects
•    Nanostructuring and reduced dimensionality for tailoring heat and charge transport
•    Energy transfer in hybrid nanomaterials including dots, wires, plates, polymers, etc
•    Excitonic nanomaterials with light-harvesting and lighting properties utilizing both solid-state and molecular components
•    Plasmonic nano- and meta-structures for light harvesting and concentration
•    Hybrid structures with interacting exciton and plasmon resonances
•    Hybrid nanomaterials for photo-catalytic applications utilizing excitons and plasmons

Organizers:
Maria Chan (Argonne National Laboratory) [email protected]
Richard Schaller (Argonne National Laboratory) [email protected]
Jonathan A. Malen (Carnegie Mellon University) [email protected]