Optical Fibers and Waveguides

The control of charge and energy streams in materials is central to their application in a broad range of thermal, energy generation/storage, and electronic technologies. In disordered systems, challenges in understanding and manipulating transport phenomena become paramount in establishing structural design criteria, formulation, and processing methods to provide optimized properties. With increased consideration and application of glassy and nanoheterogeneous (e.g. glass-ceramics, nanostructured composites) materials addressing such areas as energy generation and storage (e.g. photovoltaics, fuel cells, thermoelectrics, batteries), thermal isolation or conduction media, and low-loss dielectrics and electronic conduction (microelectronics, nanoelectronics), new insights into the fundamental nature and control of, often coupled, transport processes are of key interest.

This session is intended to provide a general forum for the discussion of the mechanisms, properties, and applications of charge and energy transport phenomena in such disordered systems. Contributions on the experimental, theoretical, and modeling aspects of these topics are encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Material synthesis and characterization (thin film, bulk, fiber)
• Novel experimental methods and instrumentation
• Charge transport theory and measurement (ionic and carrier transport)
• Thermal transport (including photonic systems and processes)
• Computational modeling of energy and charge transport

organizers:

• Xianghua Zhang, Université de Rennes 1, France
• Shixun Dai, Ningbo University, China
• Johann Troles, Université de Rennes 1, France