ECEN5385
– Optical Properties of Materials
Spring 2009
Schedule
Dates are tentative and are subject
to change. Please check regularly. Last updated: 22 Apr 09.
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Tuesday |
Thursday |
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Jan 13 Also, review Appendix A |
Jan 15 |
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Jan 20 Peyghambarian
– Plasmons & Fox 10.3: volume plasmons (optional: Klingshirn:
Ch. 5, 7) |
Jan 22 |
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Jan 27 – HW1 due Ch. 2 – Oscillators, and Weisskopf
(Scientific American article, handout) Submit
project topic for approval |
Jan 29 |
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Feb 3 |
Feb 5 |
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Feb 10 – HW2 due pp 69-72, 280-281 – Photoconductivity &
photodetectors |
Feb 12 Ch. 4 – Excitons (optional: Klingshirn
Ch. 14-16) |
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Feb 17 Appendix C – Excitons (cont.) Ch. 5 (5.1–5.3) - Luminescence |
Feb 19 Ch. 6 – Quantum wells |
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Feb 24 – HW3 due Quantum wells
(continued) |
Feb 26 Ch. 8 – Molecular materials |
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Mar 3 Ch. 9 – Luminescence centers |
Mar 5 Ch. 10 – Phonons (also Klingshirn
Ch. 9) |
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Mar 10 – HW4 due Phonons (continued) |
Mar 12 Phonons (continued) |
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Mar 17 Armitage
- LCs:
Liquid crystals |
March 19 Liquid crystals
(continued) List of LC classes may be helpful |
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Mar 24 |
Mar 26 Spring break |
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Mar 31 – HW5 due |
Apr 2 Displays |
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Apr 7 Ch. 11 (skim) – Electrooptic effects |
Apr 9 Vacuum energy |
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Apr 14 - HW6 due NLO measurements &
quantum dots (Byung Cho) |
Apr 16 Student presentation: Nonlinear
optics applied to spectroscopy (Hill) |
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Apr 21 Student presentations: Experimental
generation & detection of terahertz radiation (Zhang) Optical
properties of low-dimensional carbon: graphene & carbon nanotubes (Tamma) |
Apr 23 Class meets in
OCS Conference Room ECEE 1B45 Student presentations: Coherent
terahertz transmission in superconductors (Reese) |
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Apr 28 Student presentations: Surface
Enhanced raman spectroscopy of gold nanowires (Qian) Improved
metal/insulator/metal traveling wave detector for terahertz (Dmitriyeva) |
Apr 30 Class meets in
OCS Conference Room ECEE 1B45 Student presentations: Electric
field optical fiber sensor (Zhu) Optical
properties of superconductors (Karri) |