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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. PhotonicsCL: Photonic Cylindrical Multilayer Lenses

    Tools | 20 Oct 2010 | Contributor(s):: Xingjie Ni, Fan Gu, Ludmila Prokopeva, Alexander V. Kildishev

    Full wave simulation of cylindrical transformation optical lenses

  2. PhotonicsSHA-2D: Modeling of Single-Period Multilayer Optical Gratings and Metamaterials

    Tools | 23 Jun 2009 | Contributor(s):: Xingjie Ni, Zhengtong Liu, Fan Gu, Marcos Gabriel Pacheco, Joshua Borneman, Alexander V. Kildishev

    Frequency domain simulation of single-period multilayer gratings and optical metamaterials upon TE/TM plane-wave incidence at arbitrary angles

  3. Micro-Mechanics Simulation Tool: Thin film

    Tools | 24 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Sowmya Ramarapu, Soumava Bera, Lei Cao, Marisol Koslowski, Lei Lei, Efosa Ogiesoba, Andrew Robison, Ruixuan Ren, Nikolaus Utomo, Yuesong Xie

    This tool simulates a threading dislocation evolving in a passivated thin film

  4. PhotonicsRT: Wave Propagation in Multilayer Structures

    Tools | 01 Dec 2008 | Contributor(s):: Satoshi Ishii, Uday K. Chettiar, Xingjie Ni, Alexander V. Kildishev

    The tool calculates the reflection, transmission and absorption of light passing through a lamellar structure with uniform isotropic layers.

  5. Nano-Plasmonic Bowtie Antenna Simulator

    Tools | 18 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Alexander S McLeod, Jeffrey B. Neaton, P. James Schuck, Eugene Song, Graham Chapman

    A tool for simulating the near-field enhancement effects of nano-scale bowtie antennae.

  6. Hyperlens Layer Designer

    Tools | 03 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Matt Swanson, Alexander V. Kildishev, Xingjie Ni

    Design a hyperlens using concentric cylindrical layers of various materials

  7. Hyperlens Design Solver

    Tools | 18 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Matt Swanson, Xingjie Ni, zubin jacob, Alexander V. Kildishev

    Simulates a cylindrical hyperlens design to obtain resulting field intensities

  8. MIT Photonic Bands

    Tools | 09 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s):: Carlos Montalvo, Jing Ouyang, Minghao Qi

    Compute the band structures and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures.

  9. 90 Degrees Beam Propagation

    Tools | 24 Sep 2007 | Contributor(s):: Carlos Montalvo, Derrick Kearney, Jing Ouyang, Minghao Qi

    Calculation of beam propagation in dielectric waveguides

  10. CNDO/INDO

    Tools | 09 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s):: Baudilio Tejerina, Jeff Reimers

    Semi-empirical Molecular Orbital calculations.

  11. PhotonicsDB: Optical Constants

    Tools | 14 Dec 2007 | Contributor(s):: Xingjie Ni, Zhengtong Liu, Alexander V. Kildishev

    Experimental data is used to interpolate the dielectric function or the index of refraction of bulk materials used in optics and photonics

  12. Nanosphere Optics Lab Field Simulator

    Tools | 09 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Baudilio Tejerina, Tyler Takeshita, Logan Ausman, George C. Schatz

    Study of the Electric field induced by Light-Nanoparticle interaction.

  13. Simple Photonic Crystals

    Tools | 16 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Jing Ouyang, Xufeng Wang, Minghao Qi

    Photonic Crystal characteristics in an easy way

  14. Nanosphere Optics Lab

    Tools | 19 May 2006 | Contributor(s):: Jon Camden, George C. Schatz

    Optical properties of nanospheres suspended in water, air, or other solutions