ECE 695: Numerical Simulations of Electro-optic Energy Systems

Meeting time and place: MWF 9:30-10:20 am in EE 115 (as of January 18).

Course policy:

• ECE 695 Course Policy - Spring 2017

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

• Official ECE course information

Course Downloads

• Lecture 1 Notes
• Lecture 2 Notes. Recommended reference: Chapter 1 of "Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach", by Arora & Barak
• Lecture 3 Notes. Recommended reference: Optimizing C and C++ code
• Lecture 4 Notes.
• Lecture 5 Notes.
• Lecture 6 Notes.
• Recommended reference for Lectures 4-6: Joannopoulos et al., Chapter 2 and Appendix D.
• Lecture 7 Notes. Recommended reference for Lecture 7:Block-iterative frequency-domain methods for Maxwell's equations in a planewave basis
• Lecture 8 Notes. Recommended reference: MPB User Tutorial.
• Lecture 9 Notes on Fast Fourier Transforms. Recommended reference: FFTW User Manual.
• Lecture 10 Notes on the Beam Propagation Method. Recommended reference: Obayya, Chapter 2.
• Lecture 11 Notes on the Beam Propagation Method. Recommended reference for Lectures 10-11: Obayya, Chapter 2. To perform your own BPM calculations, you can use the BPM sample code and associated Y-branch and Mach-Zender interferometer images.
• Lecture 12 Notes on Finite Element Methods. Recommended reference: Pragmatic Introduction to the Finite Element Method for Thermal and Stress Analysis and the FAESOR finite-element toolkit, by Petr Krysl.
• Lecture 13 Notes on Drift-Diffusion Solvers. Recommended reference: ADEPT 2 Reference Guide.
• Lecture 14 Notes on ADEPT for solving drift-diffusion problems. Recommended reference: ADEPT 2 Reference Guide.
• Lecture 15 Notes on Sentaurus for solving advanced drift-diffusion problems. Recommended reference: Sentaurus Tutorial.
• Lecture 16 Notes on Electronic Band Structure Calculations. Recommended reference: First-Principles Theory for Quasiparticle Energies.
• Lecture 17 Notes on Density Functional Theory Band Structure Calculations. Recommended reference: Density functional theory of electronic structure.
• Lecture 18 Notes on Band Structure Calculations with Quantum ESPRESSO. Recommended reference: QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials.
• Lecture 19 Notes on Transfer Matrix Calculation Methods. Recommended reference: Whittaker & Culshaw, Phys. Rev. B 60, 2610 (1999).
• Lecture 20 Notes on Transfer Matrix Calculation Methods with S4sim. Recommended reference: Stanford Stratified Structure Solver nanoHUB tool
• Lecture 21 Notes on Applications of S4sim.
• Lecture 22 Notes on Cavity Modeling Framework (CAMFR). Recommended reference: CAMFR Home Page
• Lecture 23 Notes on the Applications of the Cavity Modeling Framework (CAMFR).
• Lecture 24 Notes on Preparing for Your Final Project.
• Lecture 25 Notes on Coupled Mode Theory
• Lecture 26 Notes on Applying Coupled Mode Theory. Suggested reference: "Time-domain simulations of nonlinear interaction in microring resonators using finite-difference and coupled mode techniques"
• Lecture 27 Notes on Finite Difference Time Domain. Suggested Reference: Review of the formulation and applications of the finite-difference time-domain method for numerical modeling of electromagnetic wave interactions with arbitrary structures.
• Lecture 28 Notes on Finite Difference Time Domain in MEEP. Suggested Reference: MEEP Tutorial.
• Lecture 29 Notes on Finite Difference Time Domain in MEEP II. Suggested Reference: MEEP Tutorial.
• Lecture 30 Notes on Finite Difference Time Domain in MEEPPV. Suggested Reference: MEEPPV User Guide.
• Lecture 31 Notes on Finite Difference Time Domain Band Structures
• Lecture 32 Notes on Finite Difference Time Domain Multi-Physics Calculations. Recommended references: Photovoltaic Material Characterization with Steady-State and Transient Photoluminescence.
• Lecture 33 Notes on Finite Difference Time Domain Thermophotovoltaics. Recommended reference: Thermophotovoltaic applications in the UK: critical aspects of system design.
• Lecture 34 Notes on Finite Difference Time Domain for Radiative Cooling. Recommended reference: Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight.
• Lecture 35 Notes on Hybrid Solar Systems. Recommended reference: Hybrid strategies and technologies for full spectrum solar conversion
• Lecture 36 Notes on Engineering Grand Challenges. Recommended reference: NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering Report
• Lecture 37 Notes on Preparing for our Final Presentations

Homework

• Homework 1 - due Friday, Jan. 20
• Homework 2 - due Friday, Jan. 27
• Homework 3 - due Friday, Feb. 3
• Homework 4 - due Friday, Feb. 10. Download raw data for Problem 1.
• Homework 5 - due Friday, Feb. 17.
• Homework 6 - due Wednesday, Mar. 8.
• Homework 7 - due Friday, March 24.
• Homework 8 - due Friday, March 31.

Quizzes

• Quiz 1 posted on Blackboard. Final responses due on Friday, April 7 by 4:30 pm.

Final Project

• Title & Abstract due via email by Friday, April 14
• Final Project Guidelines and Grading Rubric (from Spring 2015, may be revised slightly this semester)

Last updated: April 17, 2017

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