UV and Higher Energy Photonics: From Materials to Applications 2025

Recently, there has been rapid and significant progress in UV and higher-energy photonics (UV to EUV) driven by the availability of novel UV and high-energy light sources, instruments, and technologies. Nanomaterials such as nucleotides and proteins known as the essential biomolecules in living cells and semiconducting or plasmonic materials used in advanced nano-devices are analyzed and detected, imaged, and/or manipulated with the use of UV and higher energy photons. Starting from the material growth-related aspects, this conference includes theories and novel concepts on UV and higher-energy photonics. It also includes experiments and developments of methods and instruments and materials, more specifically nanostructured materials, which are used as devices for applications in catalysis, nano-lithography, nano-imaging, disinfection, analytical sensing but also in nano-photonics, bio-medical photonics, materials sciences, and green and environmental sciences.

The 2025 conference will mark the 10th year since its launch in 2016. As conference chairs, we are planning a special event to celebrate this milestone, with heartfelt thanks to all invited and contributing speakers, students, and committee members who have contributed to the conference’s success. We encourage all past speakers and committee members to join us again for the 2025 conference.

This year, we will emphasize environmental sciences and sustainability, particularly through the use of high-energy photons. This includes applications such as photocatalytic decontamination, disinfection, and germicidal techniques using UV photons, as well as sustainable absorbing and emitting materials, like rare-earth-free materials.

The Young Scientist Award will be given to two outstanding presentations, one in the oral session and one in the poster session. Successful candidates must demonstrate significant scientific content and excellence in both their presentation and the handling of questions and discussions. Additionally, up to four contributed papers may be promoted to invited contributions. We especially encourage student presentations and hope for strong participation from students.

UV and High Energy Materials and Light Sources

high band gap semiconductors

nanostructured absorbing and/or emitting materials

LEDs and lasers for UV and higher energy

nonlinear and ultrafast photonics for UV and higher energy

fiber optics for UV and higher energy

photonic crystal fibers

high harmonic generation

UV to EUV optics and sources.

UV and Higher Energy Microscopy and Spectroscopy

resonant Raman microscopy

nonlinear microscopy

super-resolution microscopy

plasmonics in UV and DUV

coherent scattering imaging

resonance Raman spectroscopy

absorption spectroscopy

fluorescence spectroscopy.

Applications of UV, Deep UV, Vacuum UV, and Extreme UV Photonics

holography

lithography

photocatalysis

decontamination

disinfection/germicidal techniques

material properties

materials processing

photoresists

photodissociation

photodamage

environmental analysis

energy production.

UV and Deep UV Biosensing and Analysis with UV and Higher Energy Photonics

biosensor and analysis

structure and dynamics of biomolecules

native-fluorescence

photochemical effect on biomolecules.