Tenth International Conference on Near-Field Optics, Nanophotonics and Related Techniques (NFO 10)

Abstract

The First International Conference on Near-Field Optics (NFO) took place in Arc-et-Senans (France) in 1992, eight years after the first scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) experiments with visible light by Dieter Pohl et al. at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon (Switzerland). Since then this field has been growing and has extended into different new topics, for example apertureless probes, plasmonics, metamaterials, and nanoantennas. The conference is held every two years, at different locations worldwide. In 2006, near-field optics was “coming home” to Switzerland with NFO 9 held at EPFL in Lausanne. Two years later, the conference has moved to South America. NFO 10 was organized by Oscar E. Martínez and Andrea Bragas from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and took place at Salguero Plaza in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from September 1st–5th, 2008. During these five days, a school on near-field optics was held and results from this field of research were presented in ca. 100 oral and 240 poster presentations.