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Renewable Energy
Energy Basics
Solar Basics
- Electromagnetic Radiation
- Solar Technologies
- Solar Cell Introduction
- Physics of Solar Cells
- Band-gap
Solar Materials
Organic Solar Cells
- Major Processes in Organic Solar Cells
- Organic Heterojunctions in Solar Cells
- Energy vs Charge Transfer at Heterojunctions
- Current OPV Research Directions
Energy Storage
Grid Integration
Photonics Core Concepts and Applications
Basics of Light
Optical Fibers, Waveguides, and Lasers
- Optical Fibers
- Total Internal Reflection
- Planar Dielectric Waveguides
- Optical Fiber Waveguides
- Dispersion and Attenuation Phenomena
- Lasers
Molecular Orbitals
- Atomic Orbitals and Nodes
- Electronegativity and Bonding Between Atoms
- Sigma and Pi Orbitals
- Polarization and Polarizability
- Electronic Coupling Between Orbitals
- Donors and Acceptors
Electronic Band Structure of Organic Materials
- Introduction to Band Structure
- Electronic Structure of Hydrogen
- The Polyene Series
- Bloch's Theorem
- Electrical Properties
- Electronic States vs Molecular Levels
Absorption and Emission of Light
- Introduction to Absorption
- Changes in Absorption Spectra
- Jablonksi Diagram
- Fluorescence Process
- Transition Dipole Moment
- Absorption and Emission
- Photochromism
- Interchain Interactions
Transport Properties
- Charge Carrier Mobility
- Band Regime versus Hopping Regime
- Electronic Coupling
- Model Calculations of Electronic Coupling
- Marcus Theory and Reorganization Energy
- Electron-Phonon Coupling
Liquid Crystals and Displays
- Liquid Crystals
- Double Refraction and Birefringence
- Director – Degrees of Order in Liquid Crystals
- Classification and Examples of Liquid Crystals
- Alignment
- Freederickz Transition and Dielectric Anisotropy
- Liquid Crystal Displays
Organic Light Emitting Diodes
- OLED Device Applications
- Light Emitting Electrochemical Processes
- The OLED Test Cell
- What is a Light Emitting Diode?
- The First OLEDs
- Organic/Organic Heterojunctions in OLEDs
- OLED Charge Mobilities
- Organic Heterojunctions
- Fluorescent/Phosphorescent Dopants
- Metal Complex Dopants
Organic Electronics
- Organic Electronics Overview
- Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors(In progress)
- Organic Field Effect Transistors
Non linear Optics and Devices
Quantum Mechanical and Perturbation Theory of Polarizability
- Quantum-Mechanical Theory of Molecular Polarizabilities
- Mathematical Expansion of the Dipole Moment
- Perturbation Theory
Second-order Processes, Materials & Characterization
- Second-order Processes
- Structure-Property Relationships
- Second-order NLO Materials
- Second-order Material Design
- Terahertz Radiation
- Second-order Material Characterization
Third-order Processes, Materials & Characterization
- Introduction to Third-order Processes and Materials
- Two Photon Absorption
- Characterization of Third-order Materials
Organic Photonics Applications in Information Technology
- Optical Networks
- Passive Optical Polymers
- Electro-optic Polymers and Devices
- Materials Processing and Fabrication
Photonics Integration
Research Equipment, Devices and Techniques
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Characterization
Composition
- Photoelectron Spectrometer XPS and UPS
- UV/VIS/NIR spectrometer
- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)/Raman spectroscopy
- NMR spectrometer
- Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)
- Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy(EDX)
Structure
- Scanning Electron Microscope
- Transmission Electron Microscope
- Conducting Tip Atomic Force Microscopy
- Profilometer
- X-ray Diffraction
- Raman microscope
Properties
- Two-Photon Spectroscopy
- Hyper Rayleigh Scattering
- Teng-Man Method
- Attenuated Total Reflectance
- External quantum efficiency
- Metricon Prism Coupler
- Femtosecond Z-Scan Spectrometer
- Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy
- Superconducting Quantum Interference Device- SQUID
- Fluorometer
- Ellipsometer
- Surface Analyzer
- Xray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy- XANES
Synthesis
- Lead Sulfide Quantum Dot Synthesis
- Silver Nano Prism Synthesis
- Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystal Synthesis
- General Synthesis Techniques
Device Fabrication
- Organic Photovoltaic Fabrication and Test Apparatus
- E-beam Lithography
- Physical Vapor Deposition PVD - Vacuum/thermal coater
- Physical Vapor Transport
- Magnetron Sputtering Coater
- Chemical Vapor Deposition
- Laser Mask Generator
- OFET fabrication and characterization
- Mach-Zehnder Device
In Development
- Reactive ion etcher
- Plasma etcher
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- Atomic Layer Deposition ALD
- Liquid Phase Deposition
Professional Development for Research and Career Planning
- Writing a Successful Proposal
- How to Keep a Lab Notebook
- Writing a Scientific Paper
- How to Give a Research Presentation
- Poster Session
- Basic Illustration Techniques
- Mentoring
- Teaching
- Communicating Science to the Public
- Responsible Conduct of Research- RCR
- Career Planning
- Green Chemistry
- Laboratory Safety
- Keys to Success in Graduate School
Acronyms and Unit Abbreviations
External Education Links
K-12 Outreach Kits and Labs
Middle School
- K-12 Outreach Introduction
- Basic Optics - Outreach Kit
- Photovoltaics- Outreach Kit
- Solar Car Derby
- Solar Cell Photon Toss Exhibit
- Cuprous Oxide Solar Cell
High School
- Lasers and Telecommunication- Outreach Kit
- Nanocrystalline - Dye Solar Cell Lab
- Phosphorescent Decay Lab
- PV Characterization Lab
- SunDawg Exhibit
Introductory College