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When optical components are reduced to the nanoscale, they exhibit interesting properties that can be harnessed to create new devices. For example, imagine a block of material with thin layers of alternating materials. This creates a periodic arrangement of alternating dielectric constants, forming a "photonic crystal" that is analogous to the electronic crystals used in semiconductor devices. Photonic crystals, along with quantum dots and other devices patterned at the nanoscale, may form the basis for sensors and switches used in computers and telecommunications. More information on Nanophotonics can be found here.

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  1. Solid-State Lighting: An Opportunity for Nanotechnologists to Address the Energy Challenge

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    Online Presentations | 25 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: Timothy D. Sands

    More than one-fifth of the electrical power consumed in the U.S. is used for general illumination. Much of this energy is wasted to heat filaments in incandescent lamps, a century-old technology with an efficiency of about 5%. Fluorescent lighting is more efficient, but problems of color quality,...

  2. Nanoscale Antenna Apertures

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    Online Presentations | 24 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: Xianfan Xu

    This presentation will discuss light concentration and enhancement in nanometer-scale ridge aperture antennas. Resent research, including numerical simulations and near field optical measurements has demonstrated that nanoscale ridge antenna apertures can concentrate light into nanometer domain....

  3. BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanophotonics

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    Online Presentations | 23 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

    This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.

  4. Surprises on the nanoscale: Plasmonic waves that travel backward and spin birefringence without magnetic fields

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    Online Presentations | 08 Jan 2007 | Contributor(s):: Daniel Neuhauser

    As nanonphotonics and nanoelectronics are pushed down towards the molecular scale, interesting effects emerge. We discuss how birefringence (different propagation of two polarizations) is manifested and could be useful in the future for two systems: coherent plasmonic transport of near-field...

  5. Plasmon-resonant Nanorods as Multifunctional Imaging Agents

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    Online Presentations | 28 Dec 2006 | Contributor(s):: Alexander Wei

    Gold nanorods have several outstanding characteristics as optical contrastagents for biomedical imaging. Their strong optical absorption atnear-infrared (NIR) frequencies can be used to generate contrast for opticalcoherence tomography (OCT) imaging, and is well matched for detectionmodalities...

  6. Nanotechnology and Visible Light

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    Teaching Materials | 19 Dec 2006 | 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 also defined by the changes in the physical and chemical properties the nanoparticles. This...

  7. Nanoscale Plasmonic Heterostructures

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    Online Presentations | 15 Dec 2006 | Contributor(s):: Gary P. Wiederrecht

    Surface plasmons are electromagnetic modes that are present at the interface of a metal and dielectric material. Depending upon the structure of the metal, surface plasmons demonstrate a wide range of characteristics, such as optical field enhancements, tunable resonances, and the ability to...

  8. ECE 695s Lecture 15: Metamaterials: Giving Light the Second Hand, Part 2

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    Online Presentations | 20 Nov 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

    A subsequent version of this lecture is available in a three lecture short course Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering.

  9. Nano Scale Optics with Nearfield Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM)

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    Online Presentations | 16 Nov 2006 | Contributor(s):: Reuben Bakker, Vladimir M. Shalaev

    NearfieldScanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM )is a relatively new technology that defeats the diffraction limit for optical measurements by utilizing the near field portion of electromagnetism to window down to ~ 10 nm spatial resolution. NSOM instrumentation has progressively developed over the...

  10. ECE 695s Lecture 14: Metamaterials: Giving Light the Second Hand, Part 1

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    Online Presentations | 15 Nov 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

    A subsequent version of this lecture is available in a three lecture short course Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering.

  11. ECE 695s Lecture 11: Guiding Light Along Nanoparticle Arrays

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    Online Presentations | 02 Nov 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  12. ECE 695s Lecture 10: Surface Plasmon Excitation

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    Online Presentations | 02 Nov 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  13. ECE 695s Lecture 9: Introduction to Metal Optics

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    Online Presentations | 02 Oct 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  14. ECE 695s Lecture 8: Photonic Crystals Fibers

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    Online Presentations | 02 Oct 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  15. ECE 695s Lecture 7: Photonic Crystal Waveguides

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    Online Presentations | 02 Oct 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  16. ECE 695s Lecture 6: Basic Properties of Electromagnetic Effects in Periodic Media

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    Online Presentations | 19 Sep 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  17. ECE 695s Lecture 5: Photonic Crystals - Introduction

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    Online Presentations | 18 Sep 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  18. ECE 695s Lecture 4: Electromagnetic Properties of Molecules, Nano- and Microscopic Particles

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    Online Presentations | 05 Sep 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  19. ECE 695s Lecture 3: Optical Properties of Insulators, Semiconductors and Metals

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    Online Presentations | 05 Sep 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

  20. ECE 695s Introductory Lecture

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    Online Presentations | 30 Aug 2006 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev