Nanophotonics (as taught in MIT 2.718/2.719: Photonic Materials, Fall 2012)

22 Feb 2013 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nick Fang

This course is intended to introduce recent advances in photonics science and technology to undergraduate and graduate students in engineering. The course consists of selected topics in fundamental …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16967

PHYS 620 Lecture 1: Introduction

20 Feb 2013 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Roberto Merlin

Lecture notes only.

https://nanohub.org/resources/16821

PHYS 620 Lecture 2: Permittivity: Kramers-Kronig Relations

20 Feb 2013 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Roberto Merlin

Lecture notes only.

https://nanohub.org/resources/16822

Optimize Solar Cells

10 Feb 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

In this presentation different avenues used to enhance the performance of solar cells are explained.

https://nanohub.org/resources/10791

Modeling of Light Emitting Diodes with SILVACO

07 Feb 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

Simulation of LEDs with SILVACO is presented.

https://nanohub.org/resources/10772

SILVACO Simulation of Solar Cells

07 Feb 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

This set of lecture notes describes the SILVACO simulation of Solar Cells. In particular, emphasis is placed on the module LUMINOUS.

https://nanohub.org/resources/10770

Anti-Reflection Coating Assignment

30 Nov 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Alex Small

This is a guided activity for students to study the design of an anti-reflection coating. The student is first asked to do a simple calculation by hand, to determine the proper thickness for an …

https://nanohub.org/resources/10074

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

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

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

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

Illinois ECE 460 Optical Imaging, Chapter 6: Interferometry

29 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu, Andre da Costa, Christopher Nixon, Glen Svenningsen

This chapter explains the principles of interferometry, among its topics are: Superposition of fields, Monochromatic Fields, many type of interferometry, Temporal Coherence, etc.Notes developed by …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5142

Illinois ECE 460 Optical Imaging, Chapter 1: Introduction to Optical Imaging

28 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu, Andre da Costa, Christopher Nixon, Glen Svenningsen

This presentation introduce some basic but fundamental concepts related to optical imaging: Electrical Magnetic Field, Frequency Domain, Measurable Quantities and the Uncertainty Principle. These …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5132

Illinois ECE 460 Optical Imaging, Chapter 2: A Mathematical Toolbox for Optical Imaging

28 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu, Andre da Costa, Christopher Nixon, Glen Svenningsen

The objective of this presentation is to introduce the students to a set of tools that will be useful throughout the course, among these tools are: Green's Function, Fourier Transforms, Basic …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5134

Illinois ECE 460 Optical Imaging, Chapter 3: Imaging

28 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu, Andre da Costa, Christopher Nixon, Glen Svenningsen

This chapter presents Geometrical Optics and also Fourier Optics, two important topics that precede Microscopy. Some of the covered concepts are: Fermat's Principle, Snell's Law, Thick and Thin Lens, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5136

Illinois ECE 460 Optical Imaging, Chapter 4: Microscopy

28 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu, Andre da Costa, Christopher Nixon, Glen Svenningsen

This chapter presents the main concepts and techniques of Microscopy: Resolution, Contrast, Dark Field Microscopy, Schlieren Method, Phase Contrast Microscopy, Quantitative Phase Microscopy and many …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5138

Illinois ECE 460 Optical Imaging, Chapter 5: Light Scattering

29 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu, Andre da Costa, Christopher Nixon, Glen Svenningsen

This chapter covers important topics related to Light Scattering: Simple particles, Rayleigh Scattering, The Born Approximation, Spatial Correlation, Ensemble of Particles, The Transport Equation, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5140

Nanotechnology and Visible Light

19 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Raymond Serrano

This submission is an undergraduate project by Raymond Serrano, a chemistry student at UTEP. Raymond has been a nanoHUB student for one year. In addition to being factor of scale, nanoscience is …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2118