Week 4,Optical Processes & Semiconductor Optics [NA]

Semiconductor optics

Week 5, Photonic Crystal Optics & Microcavities, ) [NA]

Lecture 1 Slides (pdf)

Additional material: Introduction to photonic crystals

Lecture 2 Slides

Additional material: Optical microcavities

Week 7

CCD-technology 

Week 8

Thu: Plasmonics [NA]

Lecture notes on plasmonics (pdf)

Editorial - Plasmonics (pdf)

Interview - Plasmonics (pdf)

Surface plasmons - Book chapter (pdf)

Thesis chapter on surface plasmons (used also for Lab 3)

Week 9

Mon: Solar Cells (hand-out material) [NA]

Lecture notes (pdf)

PV record efficiencies (for the interested student)

Economical aspects of PV (pages 49-57, for the interested student)

Thu: Nano-photonics for Optoelectronic Devices (hand-out material) [NA]

Lecture notes (pdf)

Review on plasmonics for PV (pdf)

Week 10, Quantum Cascade Lasers, Modulators and Other Exotic Devices and Repetition [DH & NA]

Exotic devices