Welcome to Participants

• John Hill (Interim, BNL Associate Laboratory Director for BES)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

The CFN: A User-Oriented Research Center

• Emilio Mendez (CFN Director)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

The CFN's Facilities and Capabilities

• James Dickerson (CFN Assistant Director)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Control of Light-Matter Interaction Using Dispersion Engineered Structures

• Vinod Menon (City College of New York)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor The interaction of light with matter can be engineered by controlling the photonic density of states (PDOS). In this talk I will present some of our recent results on photonic structures that enhance PDOS. Broadband enhancement of spontaneous emission rate, control of the strength of interaction between light and excitons and engineering light extraction will be discussed. Specifically, I will talk about our work on metamaterials that are engineered to have hyperbolic dispersion which allow broadband enhancement of spontaneous emission [1] as well as methods to efficiently extract light from these structures [2]. Following this, I will briefly touch upon our recent work on microcavities embedded with two-dimensional atomic crystals [3] as well as hybrid organic and inorganic excitons that show emergent properties [4]. [1]“Topological transitions in metamaterials,” H. Krishnmoorthy, Z, Jacob, I. Kretzschmar, E. Narimanov, and V. M. Menon, Science 336, 205 (2012). [2]“Directional out-coupling from active hyperbolic metamaterials,” T. Galfsky, H. Krishnamoorthy, W. Newman, Z. Jacob, E. Narimanov, and V. M. Menon, arXiv 1404.1535, Optica (In press – 2015). [3]“Strong light-matter coupling in two-dimensional atomic crystals,” X. Liu, T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, F. Xia, E-C. Lin, Y-H Lee, S. Kena-Cohen, and V. M. Menon, arXiv: 1406.4826, Nature Photonics (In press - 2015) [4]“Room temperature Frenkel-Wannier-Mott hybridization of degenerate excitons in a strongly coupled microcavity,” M. Slootsky, X. Liu, V. M. Menon* and S. R. Forrest*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076401 (2014).

in-situ TEM Observation of Nanobubbles in Supersaturated Solutions

• Christopher Perrey (Tennant)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Over the last few years, the life span of nanobubbles has emerged as a topic of scientific debate. Though their lifetimes have been predicted to be infinitesimally short, scientific experiments have shown that nanobubbles can have lifetimes of many hours and can be effective in many applications. Tennant Company, a leader in sustainable cleaning innovation, has found that its ec-H2O™ technology employed on thousands of pieces of equipment worldwide produces nanobubbles at high concentrations. Further, through field use and laboratory testing, these nanobubbles have been observed to provide effective cleaning of certain soils from floor surfaces. . This talk discusses the application of the in situ liquid-cell holder in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory to image the nanobubbles produced by the ec-H2O™ technology.

Patents, Commercial Licensing, Intellectual Property

• Connie Cleary (BNL Technology Commercialization)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Research Partnerships with CFN

• Michael Furey (BNL Industrial Partnerships)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

How to Become a CFN User

• Grace Webster (CFN User Program Administrator)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Recommendations for Writing an Effective User Proposal

• James Dickerson (CFN Assistant Director)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Closing Remarks

• James Dickerson (CFN Assistant Director)

Room: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor