The international Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop (iNOW) has been held in various locations around the world, including Beijing, Berkeley, Berlin, Munich, Shenzhen, Stockholm, Tokyo and Würzburg. Since 2006, iNOW has served as a premier forum for researchers and technology leaders in semiconductor nanostructures, optoelectronics, and photonics. 


iNOW 2026 will be hosted in Beijing and Tianjin by Tsinghua University. We welcome leaders in research and development, as well as students and postdoctoral scholars, to join us for a 10-day gathering to discuss new ideas and the most recent developments in state-of-the-art nanoscale semiconductor processing and synthesis, the physics  governing the optical and electrical properties of materials, cutting-edge characterization techniques, and new devices with novel functionalities. Join us!


Important Dates
Technical Topics
Topic 1: Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs)
Topic 2: Epitaxy of Quantum Dots and Nanowires
Topic 3: Quantum Well, Quantum Dot and Quantum Cascade Lasers
Topic 4: Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Topic 5: Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics
Topic 6: Metasurfaces and Metastructures
Topic 7: Novel Photonic Materials
Topic 8: Photonic Integrated Circuits
Topic 9: High-Speed Lasers and Detectors
Topic 10: Optical Communications and Interconnects
Topic 11: Microwave Photonics
Topic 12: Photonic Devices for Energy, Biomedical and Environment Applications

Committees

Co-Chairs

Dieter Bimberg

Dieter Bimberg

CIOMP of CAS, Changchun & TU Berlin

Connie Chang-Hasnain

Connie Chang-Hasnain

Berxel Photonics & The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Yidong Huang

Yidong Huang

Tsinghua University

Steering Committee

Yasuhiko Arakawa

Yasuhiko Arakawa

University of Tokyo

Dieter Bimberg

Dieter Bimberg

CIOMP of CAS, Changchun & TU Berlin

Connie Chang-Hasnain

Connie Chang-Hasnain

Berxel Photonics & The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Gadi Eisenstein

Gadi Eisenstein

American Technion Society

Alfred Forchel

Alfred Forchel

Technische Physik and Wilhelm-Conrad-Rontgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universitat Wurzburg

James Harris

James Harris

Stanford University

Yidong Huang

Yidong Huang

Tsinghua University

Guillaume Huyet

Guillaume Huyet

Université Côte d'Azur

Fumio Koyama

Fumio Koyama

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Grzegorz Sęk

Grzegorz Sęk

Wrocław University of Science and Technology