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Leveraging Advances in Computational Electrodynamics to Enable New Kinds of Nanophotonic Devices
Thursday March 3, 2016
| 11:00 am
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Presenter: | Dr. Ardavan Oskooi, Founder and CEO of Simpetus |
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| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Abstract: | Advances in computational electrodynamics have the potential to enable fundamentally new kinds of nanophotonic devices which are based principally on complex, non-analytical wave-interference effects. Powerful, flexible, open-source software tools have now been made available for use in large-scale, parallel computations to model the interaction of light with practically any kind of material in any arbitrary geometry. These recent developments in computational capability make possible the investigation of various emergent structures, materials, and physical phenomena that were previously beyond the reach of pencil and paper analytical methods as well as less versatile and even less accessible commercial software tools. I will demonstrate how such advances in finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods for computational electromagnetism via an open-source software package known as MEEP can lead to entirely new designs for light trapping in nanostructured thin-film silicon solar cells as well as light extraction from nanostructured organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). I will then describe efforts by our startup to leverage scalable, high-performance computing (HPC) in the public cloud for large-scale device design. | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
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