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2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 5 - Biomedicine - A tour of the Cell
25 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Marina Marjanovic
Edited and Uploaded by Omar Sobh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://nanohub.org/resources/9747
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2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 3 - Fourier optics - Nonlinear optics - Microscopy
25 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kimani C Toussaint
Ray optics-Limit of wave optics when wavelength is infinitesimally small Wave optics-provides a description of optical phenomena using scalar wave theory Electromagnetic optics- provides most …
https://nanohub.org/resources/9745
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2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 4 - Gaussian beam propagation - Elastic light scattering - Dynamic light scattering
25 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu
Often, experiments involve light beams. A light beam can be defined as a distribution of field that fulfills the approximation in Eq. 20, i.e. is characterized by a dominant wave vector component, …
https://nanohub.org/resources/9746
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2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 1 - Introduction
20 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rashid Bashir, Stephen Boppart
Edited and Uploaded by Omar Sobh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://nanohub.org/resources/9637
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Illinois NANO-EP Seminar: Photonic Crystal Nanolasers
15 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kent D. Choquette
We discuss the application of nanotechnology to engineer optical properties of semiconductors for unprecedented confinement of both photons and electrons to develop the next generation of lasers and …
https://nanohub.org/resources/9695
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Solar Cells Operation and Modeling
19 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
This set of slides decribes the basic principles of operation of various generations on solar cells with emphasis to single crystalline solar cells. Next, semiconductor equations that describe the …
https://nanohub.org/resources/9328
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Solar Cells Numerical Solution
08 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This is an MS Thesis of Balaji Padmanabhan, a student of Prof. Vasileska. It describes numerical solution details for the 3D drift-diffusion equations as applied to modeling 1D-3D solar cells.
https://nanohub.org/resources/9119
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Physical and Mathematical Description of the Operation of Photodetectors
08 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This set of slides describes physical and mathematical description of the operation of photodetectors including important figures of merit.
https://nanohub.org/resources/9142
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Illinois iOptics Seminar Series
17 May 2010 | Series | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu, Mustafa Mir, Vikram Chaudhery, Brian Cunningham
The Optical Society of America and the SPIE local student chapters are sponsoring the 2nd iOptics seminar series.The series includes lectures from graduate students, post-docs and faculty working at …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8646
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Illinois iOptics Lecture 3: A tissue scattering-phase theorem
17 May 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu
We have derived two mathematical relationships between quantitative phase images of thin tissue slices and the scattering parameters of the bulk, i.e. scattering mean free path, ls, and anisotropy …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8960
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Illinois iOptics Lecture 5: Deposited Nanorod Films for Biosensor Applications
17 May 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Brian Cunningham
Planar photonic crystals have been used as the basis of many biological sensing devices. Here, we successfully demonstrated that the combination of a photonic crystal structure and a dielectric …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8962
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Illinois iOptics Lecture 2: Curavature induced time-domain impedance
17 May 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jont B. Allen
Abstract for this talk is available as a PDF in supporting materials. Click here to view. iOptics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Optical Society of America (OSA), …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8959
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Renewable Energy Sources
17 May 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This presentation in pictures describes possibilities and utilization of alternative (green) sources of energy. Many sources contributed in the creation of this presentation. …
https://nanohub.org/resources/9001
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Developments in Metamaterials and Transformation Optics
29 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David R. Smith
Metamaterials—artificially structured microcircuits that can mimic the electromagnetic response of atoms and molecules—have vastly expanded the opportunities available for the design of …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8715
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Photonic Crystals via Confinement of Anisotropic Colloids
02 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mohammad Mayy, Chekesha Liddell
Controlling light-matter interactions with materials structured at micron and submicron length scales has been predicted as the basis for enhancements in the performance of a range of technologies, …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8386
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Modeling and Optimization of Polymer Based Bulk Heterojunction (BH) Solar Cell
15 Feb 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Biswajit ray
A polymer phase separation model based on Cahn-Hilliard equation and a three-dimensional (3D) coupled exciton/electron/hole transport model in the disordered, phase-segregated morphology so …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8407
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McCoy Lecture: Transforming Light with Metamaterials: A New Paradigm for the Science of Light
15 Feb 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev
One of the most unique properties of light is that it can package information into a signal of zero mass and propagate it at the ultimate speed. It is, however, a daunting challenge to bring photonic …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8062
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BNC Annual Research Review: Transforming Light with Metamaterials
15 Feb 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev
One of the most unique properties of light is that it can package information into a signal of zero mass and propagate it at the ultimate speed. It is, however, a daunting challenge to bring photonic …
https://nanohub.org/resources/7944
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ANGEL - A Nonequilibrium Green's Function Solver for LEDs
07 Feb 2010 | Downloads | Contributor(s): sebastian steiger
Introducing ANGEL, a Nonequilibrium Green’s Function code aimed at describing LEDs. ANGEL uses a description close to the classic NEMO-1D paper (Lake et al., JAP 81, 7845 (1997)) to model quantum …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8403
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Transformation Optics at Optical Frequencies
03 Feb 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): John Pendry
Metamaterials, i.e. artificial materials with rationally designed geometry, composition, and arrangement of nanostructured building blocks are opening a gateway to unprecedented electromagnetic …
https://nanohub.org/resources/8327