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Emerging Materials for Nanophotonics and Plasmonics: Roads Ahead
Online Presentations | 01 Nov 2018 | Contributor(s):: Alexandra Boltasseva
In this presentation, I will discuss emerging material platforms including transparent conducting oxides, transition metal nitrides, oxides and carbides as well as two- and quasi-two-dimensional materials for future practical optical components across the fields of on-chip optics and...
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Hybrid Nanomaterials for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions
Online Presentations | 27 Nov 2017 | Contributor(s):: Maiken H. Mikkelsen
In this lecture, I will provide an overview of our recent research demonstrating tailored light-matter interactions by leveraging ultra-small plasmonic cavitites fabricated using bottom-up techniques. Examples of our demonstrations include ultrafast spontaneous and single photon sources,...
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S4 Editor
Tools | 19 Jul 2017 | Contributor(s):: Martin Hunt
Edit a Lua script for the Stanford Stratified Structure Solver and visualize the output
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ECE 552: Introduction to Lasers
Courses | 10 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev
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Jupyter Notebook (Deprecated)
Tools | 29 Sep 2016
Starts the Jupyter notebook server in your home directory.
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Shape Generator for the DDSCAT software
Tools | 07 Sep 2015 | Contributor(s):: Manoj Seeram, Gregory T. Forcherio, donald keith roper
This Matlab Graphical User Interface walks users through creating custom 3D shapes. It then generates the target and parameter files that are required to simulate the created shapes in the Discrete Dipole Approximation software.
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Plasmonics and Metasurfaces for Extreme Manipulation of Light
Online Presentations | 07 Mar 2016 | Contributor(s):: Yongmin Liu
In this talk, I will present some of our work in the fascinating field of plasmonics and optical metasurfaces. First, I will discuss reconfigurable plasmonic lenses operating in microfluidic environment, which can dynamically diverge, collimate and focus surface plasmons [5]. Second, I will...
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[Illinois] Synthetic Optical Holography
Online Presentations | 26 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s):: Brad Deutsch
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Quantum Control of Light and Matter International Workshop
Workshops | 14 Oct 2015 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev, Chris H Greene
This kickoff workshop brings together world-class experts specializing in diverse areas such as Quantum Information & Computing, Quantum Nanophotonics & Metamaterials, as well as Quantum aspects of Atomic and Molecular Optics and Atom-like Solid State Systems.
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[Illinois] Ultra-thin Plasmonic Metasurfaces
Online Presentations | 05 Oct 2015 | Contributor(s):: Mikhail A. Kats
Most optical components can be grouped under the umbrella of "bulk optics"; i.e. they generally have a non-negligible thickness compared to the wavelength of light. This is the case for prisms, lenses, etc., all of which must be of sufficient thickness such that light accumulates a...
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Reproducing simulations in "High efficiency rare-earth emitter for thermophotovoltaic applications"
Presentation Materials | 04 Aug 2015 | Contributor(s):: Enas Sakr
In this presentation we use the Thermophotonic Selective Emitter Simulation tool in nanoHUB to reproduce results of the paper "High efficiency rare-earth emitter for thermophotovoltaic applications" published in Applied Physics Letters. The paper abstract is below. In this work, we...
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The PhotonicVASEfit Tutorial
Online Presentations | 17 Jun 2015 | Contributor(s):: Ludmila Prokopeva, Alexander V. Kildishev
This online presentation will help you to get started with our simulation tool PhotonicVASEfit. In the introduction we explain the scenarios in which the simulation tool can be used. We describe the fitting models and give a demo with complete how-to-use instructions.
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PhotonicVASEfit: VASE fitting tool
Tools | 19 May 2015 | Contributor(s):: Ludmila Prokopeva, You-Chia Chang, Alexander V. Kildishev (editor)
Retrieves optical constants of a material by fitting it to VASE (Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry) data
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New Frontiers in Terahertz Technology
Online Presentations | 30 Apr 2015 | Contributor(s):: Mona Jarrahi
In this talk, I will describe some of our recent results on developing fundamentally new terahertz electronic/optoelectronic components and imaging/spectrometry architectures to mitigate performance limitations of existing terahertz systems.
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Spaser in Quantum Regime
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2015 | Contributor(s):: Mark I Stockman
The spaser have been introduced theoretically and discovered experimentally. We briefly consider quantum theory and latest results on spaser as an ultrafast quantum generator and amplifier of nanoplasmonic fields, ultrabright nanolabel, and highly-efficient nanosensor. We present latest original...
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Optical Properties of Single Coaxial Nanowires
Tools | 06 May 2014 | Contributor(s):: Sarath Ramadurgam, Katherine Elizabeth Hansen, Tzu-ging Lin, Amartya Dutta, sulaiman Abdul-Hadi, Chen Yang
Computes various optical properties of a single nanowire with up to 2 shell layers using Mie-formalism
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PhotonicsPOS: Particle on Substrate
Tools | 13 Mar 2014 | Contributor(s):: Rohith Chandrasekar, Urcan Guler, Ludmila Prokopeva, Alexander V. Kildishev
Scattering solutions for a core-shell spherical particle on a planar lamellar substrate
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Thermophotonic Selective Emitter Simulation
Tools | 14 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s):: Anubha Mathur, Enas Sakr, Peter Bermel, Namrata Vivek Raghavan
Simulate Thermophotovoltaics With Rare Earth-Based Selective Emitters
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nanoDDSCAT+
Tools | 13 Aug 2014 | Contributor(s):: AbderRahman N Sobh, Sarah White, Jeremy Smith, Nahil Sobh, Prashant K Jain
Combines the Discrete Dipole Scattering (DDSCAT) tool with the DDAConvert tool for a single workflow for custom shapes.
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[Illinois] Fundamentals of Nano-Optics and Plasmonics for the Biomedical Researcher
Online Presentations | 31 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s):: Prashant K Jain