Fourth year students Emanuele Gemo and Joaquin Faneca recently attended Photonic West, the biggest conference in the world of photonics, which was held in San Francisco, Moscone centre. In this conference, Emanuele was presenting his work based on “Sub-wavelength plasmonic enhance phase change memory”. Joaquin Faneca was giving an oral presentation relating to his work on “Reconfigurable integrated circuits based on functional materials” and a poster called “On-chip sub-wavelength Bragg grating design based on GSST”.