Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:01:08 -0500 From: "Hilary S. Lackritz" The American Chemical Society and the Optical Society of America invite you to submit abstracts for the ORGANIC THIN FILMS FOR PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS Topical meeting, co-located with the ACS annual meeting in Orlando, Florida to be held August 25-30, 1996. The meeting, which is managed and sponsored this year by the ACS PMSE division, is jointly sponsored by the POLY and PMSE Divisions of ACS, and OSA. A similar meeting will be held at the fall OSA meeting in 1997. The call for papers for this meeting is available, with Abstracts and preprints due April 1, 1996, to the address below. This conference provides a unique opportunity to interact with the optics community to discuss materials and processing issues needed for practical implementation of organic materials into the optoelectronics and photonics industry. Joint ACS/OSA sponsorship will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of new and previously unpublished results on advanced organic thin films and their applications for photonics. Materials synthesis, fabrication and processing will be covered in depth and related to chemical, physical and optical properties. Theoretical and experimental studies of these properties and their implementation in photonics devices will be described. Materials and devices using electroluminescence, second-order, third-order, and photorefractive nonlinear optical properties, polymer optical fibers, as well as materials for active and passive applications such as interconnects, data display and storage, polarizers, holography, lasers, and amplifiers will be given particular emphasis. A poster session will provide an opportunity for a variety of additional topics to be covered. For PMSE Abstract and Preprint forms (due April 1, 1996), please contact: Judy Flory/UES (reference to ACS meeting) by fax or e-mail. Fax: 513-429-5413, e-mail: jflory@eagle.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil For further information, please contact: Professor Hilary S. Lackritz School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University 1283 CHME Building West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1283 phone (317) 494-4065 FAX 317-494-0805 lackritz@ecn.purdue.edu Dr. Charles Lee Air Force Office of Scientific Research 110 Duncan Avenue Suite B115 Bolling Air Force Base Washington DC 20332-6448 phone (202) 767-4963 FAX: 202-767-4961 Professor Ken Singer Case Western University Department of Physics University Circle Cleveland, OH 44106-7079 phone (216) 368-4017 FAX: 216-368-4671 Professor George I. Stegeman CREOL University of Central Florida 12424 Research Parkway Orlando, FL 32826 phone (407) 658-3915 FAX: 407-658-3955