Teaching and Students

Teaching

Past & current semesters:

Classical Optics 323 (2005 Fall; 2007 Fall)

Textbook: “Introduction to Optics”, by F. L. Pedrotti and L. S. Pedrotti, Prentice Hall, NJ (2007) third edition. ISBN 0-13-149933-5
Meeting time: 11:00-12:15 pm on Tuesday/Thursday
Covered topics: Ray optics, Lenses and Optical Components, the Eye, Aberrations, Interference, Diffractions
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Engenering Physics 23 (2006 Spring and Fall; 2007 Spring; 2008 Spring and Fall)

The detailed information about the course can be found at http://campus.mst.edu/physics/classes/23/

Upcomming semesters:

Transport in Nanostructures: An introduction 301 (2009 Spring)

Textbook:

“Introduction to Nanoscale Science and Technology”
Di Ventra, Evoy, Heflin (Eds.) 2004, 632 p. ISBN: 978-1-4020-7720-3
Occasionally, additional reading materials may be distributed

Topics to be covered in the course:

I: Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization.

1. Nanolithography
2. Self-Assembly and Self-Organization
3. Scanning Probe Microscopes

II: Nanomaterials and Nanostructures.

4. The Geometry of Nanoscale Carbon
5. Fullerenes
6. Carbon Nanotubes
7. Quantum Dots
8. Nanocomposites

III: Nanoscale and Molecular Electronics

9. Advances In Microelectronics
10. Molecular Electronics
11. Single Electron Transistors

IV: Nanotechnology in Magnetic Systems

12. Nanostructures For Quantum Computation
13. Magnetoresistive Materials And Devices
14. Nanotechnology In Magnetic Storage

VI: Nanoscale Optoelectronics.

18. Quantum-Confined Optoelectronic Systems
19. Organic Optoelectronic Nanostructures
20. Photonic Crystals

Supervised Students

Graduate:

Benjamin Payne (2007-present)
Project: "Mesoscopic Transport and Localization in Active Random Media" (NSF)

Nathan Dees UMSL (co-advising)
Project: "Nonlinear Dynamics in Nature - From Neurons to Noshers"

Undergraduate:

Jeffrey Jau (2005-2006), graduated in May 2006
Project: "Numerical Simulation of Wave Propagation trough Quasi-1D Random Scattering Medium"

Mark Herrera (2005-2008) now at UMD
Project: "Light Propagation through novel Photonic Crystal Structures"

Presentations:
(i) Light Propagation through Dual-Periodic 1D Photonic Crystal, Mark Herrera, Massimo Bertino, Alexey Yamilov
• Frontiers in Optics 2006, Rochester NY, October 2006:
• University of Missouri-Rolla, University of Missouri-St. Louis Joint Meeting, March
• Argonne National Laboratory, October 2006
• University of Missouri-Rolla Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2006
(ii) The Slow Light Effect in Modulated Photonic Crystals, Mark Herrera, Massimo Bertino, Alexey Yamilov
• University of Missouri-Rolla Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2007
• University of Missouri- St. Louis, UMR-UMSL Joint Meeting
• Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting
(iii) Waveguiding in photonic crystal slab with variable thickness, Mark Herrera, Alexey Yamilov
• Frontiers in Optics 2007, San Jose CA, September 2007
• Argonne National Laboratory, October 2007

Tom Mahler (2007-present)

Project: "Wave Propagation in Disordered Waveguide"

Jonathan Gigax (2007-2008)
Project: "Optical devices in Photonic Crystal Slabs"