Oksana – resources

Tutorials prepared by our group

Educational links

General optics

Rick Trebino's courses on Optics and Ultrafast Optics given at Georgia Tech University (http://www.physics.gatech.edu/gcuo/UltrafastOptics/)

Encyclopedia of physics including optics developed at Georgia State University (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html)

Basics of optics as well as optical and electron microscopy from Arizona State University (http://acept.la.asu.edu/PiN/rdg/readings.shtml)

Very basic optics including fiber optics, also has basics of electronics, semiconductor devices, etc. (http://www.play-hookey.com/optics/)

Brief descriptions of various topics in optics and other fields from Wolfram Research (http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/topics/Optics.html)

Useful tips on choosing optical components for an experimental set up from CVI Laser (http://www.cvilaser.com/PublicPages/Pages/TechnicalTips.aspx)

Laser physics

Overview of principles of laser operation, types, and applications from Kansas State University (http://www.phys.ksu.edu/perg/vqm/laserweb/index.htm)

Site with many links to laser physics-related websites (http://www.educypedia.be/education/lasers.htm)

Short encyclopedia of laser physics and technology from RP Photonics Consulting (http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html)

A short laser tutorial (http://members.aol.com/WSRNet/tut/t1.htm)

Solid state physics and electronic properties of materials

Lecture notes in PDF format on electronic properties of materials from MIT (This link is too long to display conveniently. To see it, hover the mouse over the link and your browser should display the http address of the page, usually in the bottom bar of the window.)

Java applets for visualization of various aspects of solid state physics from SUNY at Stony Brook (http://buckminster.physics.sunysb.edu/intlearn/)

A brief overview of solid state physics and other topics from the University of Leeds (http://www.tunl.duke.edu/~cosen/phy217/MottScatteringReport/node1.html)

A lot of info on semiconductor physics from the University of Essex, but you must be able to de-couple from multiple images of Britney Spears throughout the site – no kidding (http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm)

A collection of solid state physics-related topics with animations (plug-in required!) (http://www.cofc.edu/~wraggj/phys408.html)

A very useful set of links on electronics, semiconductor physics, graduate student survival skills, etc. from California Polytechnic University (http://www.ee.calpoly.edu/%7Edbraun/courses/)

Electronic book on semiconductor physics from the University of Colorado (http://ece.colorado.edu/~bart/book/start.htm)

All-you-want-to-know about superconductors (http://superconductors.org/)

Glossary of superconductors-related terms (http://superconductors.org/terms.htm)

Organic electronics and photonics

A brief introduction from IBM (http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/451/shaw.html)

A review of organic thin-film-transistor field up to 2001 from IBM (http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/451/dimitrakopoulos.html)

Polymeric photovoltaics circa 2000 (http://acsinfo.acs.org/hotartcl/ci/00/apr/0650wallace.html)

PhD thesis in PDF format devoted to photoconductivity in organic semiconductors from Leiden University (http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/beenakker/theses/vissenberg/vissenberg.html)

Ultrafast spectroscopy

Rick Trebino's courses on Optics and Ultrafast Optics given at Georgia Tech University (http://www.physics.gatech.edu/gcuo/UltrafastOptics/)

Trends in ultrafast spectroscopy – presentation in a PDF format from Stockholm University (http://www.sysf.physto.se/instrumentation_seminars/seminars_2004/presentations/40415_ultrafast_laser.pdf)

Ultrafast tutorial by H. C. Kapteyn (http://www.unl.edu/amop/pdf_files/Kapteyn_DAMOP_2005_tutorial.pdf)

Fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy

A time-correlated-single-photon-counting (TCSPC) primer from Boston Electronics, Inc. (http://www.boselec.com/products/sigtcspcwhat.html)

A TCSPC primer in PDF format from Becker&Hickl (http://www.becker-hickl.de/pdf/spccorr3.pdf#search='TCSPC')

A fluorescence microscopy primer from Olympus, Inc. – look for info on other types of microscopy on this site as well (http://www.olympusmicro.com/primer/techniques/fluorescence/fluorhome.html)

Crash course on microscopy from the University of Leiden (http://www.monos.leidenuniv.nl/smo/index.html?basics/microscopy.htm)

Professional links

Journals

AIP journals such as Appl. Phys. Lett., J. Appl. Phys., J. Chem. Phys., Rev. Sci. Inst., etc. (http://journals.aip.org/)

ACS journals such as J. Phys. Chem., Chem. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Mat., etc. (http://pubs.acs.org/about.html)

Nature (http://www.nature.com/index.html)

Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/)

Journals from Wiley such as Adv. Mat., Adv. Funct. Mat., ChemPhysChem,.etc. (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/browsebyproduct?type=1)

OSA journals such as Opt. Lett., JOSA, etc. (http://www.osa.org/pubs/osajournals/)

IEEE journals such as IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, etc. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/periodicals.jsp)

Databases

Web of Science (http://portal01.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=WOS&Func=Frame)

Los Alamos National Lab database (http://xxx.lanl.gov/)

Professional Societies

Optical Society of America (OSA) (http://www.osa.org/)

International Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE) (http://www.spie.org/)

American Physical Society (APS) (http://www.aps.org/)

American Chemical Society (ACS) (http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html)

Selected groups working in:

Organic Electronics

Bernard Kippelen group at Georgia Tech (http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/krg/)

George Malliaras group at Cornell (http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~george/)

Tom Jackson group at Penn State (http://jerg.ee.psu.edu/cms/content.asp?contenttype=Info)

David Martin group at U Michigan (http://msewww.engin.umich.edu:81/people/milty/)

Daniel Frisbie group at U Minnesota (http://www1.cems.umn.edu/research/frisbie/)

Zhenan Bao group at Stanford (http://chemeng.stanford.edu/01About_the_Department/03Faculty/Bao/bao.html)

Kenneth Singer group at Case Western (http://nlo-server.cwru.edu/)

Michael Gershenson group at Rutgers (http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~gersh/)

Jean-Luc Bredas group at Georgia Tech (http://www.bredators.gatech.edu/index.php?order=10_Home&lan=en)

Stephen Forrest group at Princeton (http://www.princeton.edu/~ocmweb/)

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at UCSB (http://www.ipos.ucsb.edu/index.html)

Larry Dalton group at U of Washington (http://depts.washington.edu/eooptic/research/index.html)

Various groups at Interuniversity Microelectronics Center in Europe (http://www.imec.be/PME/Welcome.shtml)

Experimental Solid State Physics group at Imperial College (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research/exss/)

Ultrafast spectroscopy of organic materials

Frank Hegmann group at U of Alberta (http://laser.phys.ualberta.ca/~hegmann/)

Valy Vardeny group at U of Utah (http://www.physics.utah.edu/~rpolson/)

Ted Goodson III group at U Michigan (http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/goodson/index.html)

Toni Heinz group at Columbia (http://heinz.phys.columbia.edu/index.htm)

Ahmed Zewail group at Cal Tech (http://www.lms.caltech.edu/index.html)

Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy

W.E. Moerner group at Stanford (http://www.stanford.edu/group/moerner/)

Paul Barbara group at U Texas at Austin (http://research.cm.utexas.edu/pbarbara/)

A site from Shimon Weiss at UCLA with links to a number of groups working in the field of single-molecule spectroscopy as well as to nanoscience-related sites (http://smb.chem.ucla.edu/links/links.htm)