Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:01:08 -0500
From: "Hilary S. Lackritz" <lackritz@ecn.purdue.edu>


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for the presentation and discussion of new and previously unpublished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