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1. Emerging Materials for Nanophotonics and Plasmonics: Roads Ahead

   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...

2. Hybrid Nanomaterials for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions

   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,...

3. S4 Editor

   19 Jul 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Martin Hunt

   Edit a Lua script for the Stanford Stratified Structure Solver and visualize the output

4. ECE 552: Introduction to Lasers

   10 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

5. Jupyter Notebook (Deprecated)

   29 Sep 2016 |

   Starts the Jupyter notebook server in your home directory.

6. Shape Generator for the DDSCAT software

   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.

7. Plasmonics and Metasurfaces for Extreme Manipulation of Light

   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...

8. [Illinois] Synthetic Optical Holography

   26 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Brad Deutsch

9. Quantum Control of Light and Matter International Workshop

   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.

10. [Illinois] Ultra-thin Plasmonic Metasurfaces

    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...

11. Reproducing simulations in "High efficiency rare-earth emitter for thermophotovoltaic applications"

    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...

12. The PhotonicVASEfit Tutorial

    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.

13. PhotonicVASEfit: VASE fitting tool

    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

14. New Frontiers in Terahertz Technology

    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.

15. Spaser in Quantum Regime

    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...

16. Optical Properties of Single Coaxial Nanowires

    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

17. PhotonicsPOS: Particle on Substrate

    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

18. Thermophotonic Selective Emitter Simulation

    14 Jul 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Anubha Mathur, Enas Sakr, Peter Bermel, Namrata Vivek Raghavan

    Simulate Thermophotovoltaics With Rare Earth-Based Selective Emitters

19. nanoDDSCAT+

    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.

20. [Illinois] Fundamentals of Nano-Optics and Plasmonics for the Biomedical Researcher

    31 Jul 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Prashant K Jain