ECE 595: Numerical Simulations of Quantum and Electromagnetic Systems for Energy Applications

Meeting time and place: MWF 12:30-1:20 pm in EE 226

Course policy:

• ECE 595 Course Policy - Spring 2013

Course textbooks:

• Computational Photonics, by Salah Obayya (click here for original link) -- Purdue affiliates can also download the entire book for 2 weeks through Adobe Digital Editions
• Photonic Crystals, by John D. Joannopoulos et al.
• Numerical Recipes, by William Press

Related links

• nanoHUB video lectures
• Official nanoHUB class webpage
• Official ECE course information

Course Downloads

• Lecture 1 Notes
• Lecture 2 Notes (recommended reference: Chapters 9-12 and 16-19 of "Numerical Recipes in C")
• Lecture 3 Notes (recommended reference: Chapter 1 of "Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach", by Arora & Barak)
• Lecture 4 Notes (recommended reference: Chapter 2 of "Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach", by Arora & Barak)
• Lecture 5 Notes (recommended reference: Chapter 2 of "Numerical Recipes" by W.H. Press et al.)
• Lecture 6 Notes (recommended reference: Chapters 9 and 10 of "Numerical Recipes" by W.H. Press et al.)
• Lecture 7 Notes (recommended reference: Chapter 11 of "Numerical Recipes" by W.H. Press et al.)
• Lecture 8 Notes (recommended reference: Chapter 11 of "Numerical Recipes" by W.H. Press et al.)
• Lecture 9 Notes
• Lecture 10 Notes (recommended reference: Chapter 7 of Charles Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics)
• Lecture 11 Notes (recommended reference: Chapter 12 of Numerical Recipes by W.H. Press et al.)
• Lecture 12 Notes - NOTE: postponed until Wed., Feb. 6 (recommended reference: Chapter 13 of Numerical Recipes by W.H. Press et al.)
• Lecture 13 Notes (recommended reference: FFTW3 User Manual
• Lecture 14 Notes (recommended reference: Sections 2.2-2.6 of Saleh Obayya, "Computational Photonics")
• Lecture 15 Notes (recommended reference: Sections 2.7-2.8 of Saleh Obayya, "Computational Photonics")
• Lecture 16 Notes (recommended reference: Sections 2.9 and 3.1-3.3 of Saleh Obayya, "Computational Photonics" and "Photonic Crystal Fibers" by Philip J. Russell )
• Lecture 17 Notes (recommended reference: Sections 3.4-3.5 of Saleh Obayya, "Computational Photonics")
• Lecture 18 Notes (recommended reading: Introduction to Finite Element Method for Thermal and Stress Analysis and FAESOR Toolbox for Thermal FEM modeling
• Lecture 19 Notes (recommended reading: Introduction to Drift-Diffusion Model and Notes on Finite-Difference Implementation and Notes on Finite Element Implementation)
• Lecture 20 Notes (recommended reading: Joannopoulos et al., Chapter 2)
• Lecture 21 Notes (recommended reading: Joannopoulos et al., Chapter 3 and Appendix D)
• Lecture 22 Notes(recommended reading: Joannopoulos et al., Chapter 8)
• Lecture 23 Notes (recommended reading: Kittel, Intro to Solid State Physics, Chapter 9).
• Lecture 24 Notes (recommended reading: Kittel, Intro to Solid State Physics, Chapter 10).
• Lecture 25 Notes (recommended references: Periodic Potential Lab and CNTbands).
• Lecture 26 Notes (recommended reference: L. Li, JOSA A 13, 1024-1035 (1996).)
• Lecture 27 Notes (recommended reference: L. Li, JOSA A 13, 1024-1035 (1996).)
• Lecture 28 Notes (recommended reference Whittaker & Culshaw, Phys. Rev. B 60, 2610 (1999).)
• Lecture 29 Notes (recommended reference: CAMFR manual)
• Lecture 30 Notes (recommended reference: CAMFR manual)
• Lecture 31 Notes (recommended reference: Joannopoulos et al., Photonic Crystals, Chapter 10 (Princeton, 2008))
• Lecture 32 Notes (recommended reference: CMT Comb simulation tool)
• Lecture 33 Notes (recommended reference: S. Obayya, "Computational Photonics," Chapter 5, Sections 4-6)
• Lecture 34 Notes (recommended reference: S. Obayya, "Computational Photonics," Chapter 5, Sections 7-8).
• Lecture 35 Notes (recommended reference: MEEP tutorial)
• Lecture 36 Notes
• Lecture 37 Notes
• Student Presentations on April 15:
  • Roman Shugayev, "Ultrafast (100 GHz) Q-Switched Nonlinear Light Emitting Diodes"
  • Haejun Chung, "Dispersive modeling and time domain simulation of novel photovoltaic materials."
• Student Presentations on April 17:
  • Kyunghun Han, "Effect of Fresnel zone plate on plasmonic cavity"
  • Jungu Choi, "Dark States: Laser Interactions and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT)"
• Student Presentations on April 19:
  • Pei-Hsun Wang, "Dispersion simulation of waveguide geometries using MPB"
  • Sangsik Kim, "Solar blind UV optical filter,"
• Student Presentations on April 22:
  • Ogaga Odele, "CZTS as an Absorptive Layer in Photovoltaics."
  • AJ Metcalf
• Student Presentations on April 24:
  • Justus Ndukaife, "Parametric study of T-splitters in 2D photonic crystal waveguides"

Homework

• Homework 1 - due January 18, 2013
• Homework 2 - due February 1, 2013
• Homework 3 - due February 20, 2013
• Homework 4 - due March 8, 2013 (download sample BPM code and associated image files: Y-branch and symmetric Mach-Zender).

 

Quizzes

• Quiz 1 - handed out on March 18 in class; due back on March 20 by 2:20 pm
• Quiz 1 Solution - prepared on March 22

 

Last updated: May 7, 2013

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