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You Light Up My Life: A SCALE K-12 Curriculum Unit
Teaching Materials | 22 May 2024 | Contributor(s):: Jayden S Barley, Laura Litwiler, Bill Riley, Andrea K. Sutton, Tamara J. Moore
Grade Level9-11Approximate Time Needed to Complete UnitTBD Unit SummaryIn this engineering design unit, students design custom party lights for a school group. They learn about logarithms, including graphing a logarithmic function, how they are the inverse of the...
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World of Light
Online Presentations | 22 Sep 2022 | Contributor(s):: Atilla Ozgur Cakmak, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
In this presentation, World of Light, Atilla Ozgur Cakmak, Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University, explains Photonics and more.
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Using UV-C LEDs for Water Disinfection
Animations | 20 Aug 2022 | Contributor(s):: Scott Currier, Arizona State University, NEWT Center
Biofilms can develop over treated water causing harm to humans. This project focuses on utilizing UV-C LEDs for disinfection of stored water.
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E3S Theme III: Nanophotonics eBook
Papers | 01 Sep 2020 | Contributor(s):: Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (editor), Nicholas Andrade, Seth Fortuna, Kevin Han, Sean Hooten, Jeehwan Kim, Yunjo Kim, Ming C. Wu
This eBook was written by faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff of the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), a Science and Technology Center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award 0939514). The Center is a consortium of five world-class academic...
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Nanopartículas y Protectores Solares (Nanoparticles and Sunscreen)
Teaching Materials | 22 Apr 2020 | Contributor(s):: Nano-Link Center for Nanotechnology Education, Thomas Deits, Jim Marti (editor), Rodfal A. Rodríguez (editor), María T. Rivera (editor)
En esta actividad, los estudiantes son introducidos a la función de los protectores solares y aprenden cómo se pueden utilizar las nanopartículas para proteger a las personas de la radiación ultravioleta (UV). Utilizan papel foto-crómico como sensor UV,...
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Nanoparticles and Sunscreen
Teaching Materials | 16 Apr 2020 | Contributor(s):: Nano-Link Center for Nanotechnology Education, Thomas Deits, Jim Marti (editor), Christopher Kumm
In this module, students are introduced to the function of sunscreen and learn how nanoparticles can be used to protect people from ultraviolet radiation. They use photochromic paper as a UV sensor, place samples of different types of sunscreen over this UV sensor, expose their samples to...
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Understanding Waveguides: Light at the Nanoscale
Teaching Materials | 13 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s):: Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano
There are three lessons for this activity that help students understand how light can travel through a waveguide for communication purposes. Students will first explore the angle of refraction. Next they will create a gelatin waveguide to explore issues associated with light and waveguides....
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Understanding Wave Motion and Power Loss
Teaching Materials | 10 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s):: Richard Moore, Angela Berenstein, NNCI Nano
This lab is designed to help students understand how light waves interact with matter. This activity is analogous to light traveling through optical media having different indices of refraction (densities). This is a two part lesson. In part 1 students use slinky and snaky toys to explore wave...
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CDs and DVDs as Diffraction Gratings
Teaching Materials | 13 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Rama Balachandran, Karen Porter Davis, NNCI Nano
The objective of this lab is to compare the diffraction behavior of light waves between a CD and DVD. CDs and DVDs contain regularly spaced micrometer sized features which can act like a diffraction grating. Using commercial electronic storage devices like CDs and DVDs as gratings rather than...
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[Illinois] Light/Matter Interactions in Biology
Online Presentations | 13 Apr 2017 | Contributor(s):: Prashant K Jain
Light/Matter Interactions at the Nano-Bio Interface Workshop
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[Illinois] ECE 564: Modern Light Microscopy
Courses | 11 Apr 2016 | Contributor(s):: Gabriel Popescu
Current research topics in modern light microscopy: optics principles (statistical optics, Gaussian optics, elastic light scattering, dynamic light scattering); traditional microscopy (bright field, dark field, DIC, phase contract, confocal, epi-fluorescence, confocal fluorescence); current...
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[Illinois] Signal Processing at Light Speed: Ultrashort Optical Pulse Generation with Arbitrary Waveforms
Online Presentations | 29 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s):: Claire Mcghee
We aim to further improve early detection of cancer biomarkers, including metal ion and small molecules, using functional DNA as the selective component for photonic crystal surface enhanced Raman scattering (PC-SERS) based detection. It is known that gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) display SERS...
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[Illinois] Rational Design of MegaDalton-Scale DNA-Based Light Harvesting Antennas
Online Presentations | 17 Dec 2013 | Contributor(s):: Mark Bathe
Programmed self-assembly of DNA using scaffolded DNA origami offers the unique opportunity to engineer complex structural assemblies at the MegaDalton-scale with sub-nanometer precision. Due to their sequence specificity, these nucleic acid assemblies also serve as programmable structural...
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[Illinois] Phys550 Lecture 5: Interaction of Molecules with Light III
Online Presentations | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s):: Klaus Schulten
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NEATEC & Trinity College - Module 2 - Microscopy
Teaching Materials | 23 Apr 2013 | Contributor(s):: Trinity College Dublin, NEATEC Developers
Northeast Technological Education Center (NEATEC) Hudson Valley Community College STEM Introduction Topic Microscopy Secondary Level - Grades 9th-12th – Assessment NEATEC Mission Statement: “The Northeast Advanced Technological Education Center (NEATEC) is a Regional Center for...
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2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 28 - Molding the Flow of Light and Sound With Metamaterials
Online Presentations | 27 Jan 2011 | Contributor(s):: Nick Fang