Hybrid nanomaterials that incorporate plasmonic metal nanostructures with molecular or nanoparticle chromophores have become a rapidly growing focus of scientific research. The benefits of these hybrid materials arise from interactions between surface plasmons and excitons, which can facilitate a range of phenomena, including enhanced absorption and emission rates, electromagnetically induced transparency, coherent energy exchange, and cavity quantum electrodynamics. These materials are being targeted for a wide range of applications including solar cells, LEDs, lasers and biological sensors, but significant experimental and theoretical advances must be made before we can unravel the processes that develop from coupled plasmon and exciton states, understand the factors that control these interactions and harness them in future technologies.

This symposium aims to bring together experimentalists and theoreticians for a timely discussion of recent developments and challenges in this field. Sessions will focus on a range of topics including metal-semiconductor interfaces, coupling with quantum dots (II-VI, perovskite and others), 1-d confined materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides and others), hot carrier transfer and photochemistry, surface state emission, enhancement of non-linear transitions and integrated devices including lasers, solar cells, etc.