Course- Materials for Photonic Applications- Glasses, Optical Fibers and
Sol-Gel Derived Materials
Syllabus
Professor Sidney J.L. Ribeiro
Institute of Chemistry- São Paulo State University- UNESP
CP 355 Araraquara-SP, 14801-970 Brazil
Tel. +55-16-33019631
Fax +55-16-33019636
e-mail- sjlribeiro@yahoo.com.br
skype- sidneyribeiro
1- Description
Photonics is related to generation, guiding and detection of light and lies at the
heart of modern society activities. Gathering interdisciplinary efforts from
Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science the study of Photonic Materials is
considered in this course focused on Glasses, Optical Fibers and Organicinorganic hybrid materials.
-Glasses were the first materials prepared by man. Isotropic in nature, with
optical properties easily tuned for specific applications. Glasses play a
fundamental hole in photonics;
-Optical fibers, prepared from optical glasses, are the choice for guiding media
for applications in communications, sensing and light transmission with special
new applications as active media in photonics derived new areas such as
plasmonics and biophotonics;
-Sol-Gel based materials and processes and the derived organic-inorganic
hybrids are becoming more and more popular in the preparation of colloidal
suspensions, special optical thin films, nanoparticles among others.
The course will treat on the fundamentals, preparation and characterization of
special glasses, optical fibers and related sol-gel based materials. Students
activities include on-line itetractive sessions tand experimental sessions for
those attending the course at Araraquara, Brazil.
Seminars, with contents distributed to all participants, will be proposed for
attendants in order to improve interactions among them.
2-Objectives
-to introduce students to the role of Photonics in 21st century compared to the
one of electronics in the last century;
-to introduce students to Glasses and derived materials like optical fibers and
planar waveguides and glass-ceramics, and their preparation methods;
-to introduce students to “Soft Chemistry”, “Sol-Gel Materials” and “OrganicInorganic Hybrids”
-to introduce students to Rare Earths ions Spectroscopic properties and how
these properties can be explored in new opto-electronic devices
-to introduce students to “Self-Assembly” phenomena and their relationship to
importante devices produced by using this concept and also bioinspiration and
biomimicry in Chemistry;
3-Course Topics
3.1-Glasses (Definitions; Glass materials; Glass properties; Optical glasses)
3.2-Characterization techniques (Long and short order characterization;
Vibrational spectroscopy- Raman scattering and Infrared absorption; X-rays
absorption fine structure (EXAFS); Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR))
3.3-Glass-Ceramics (Definitions; Glass-ceramics properties;Transparent glassceramics)
3.4-Waveguides (Optical fibers; Planar and chanel waveguides;Integrated
Optics; Applications -Fiber sensors-Photonic band gap fibers -Stimulated
emission- Lasers and optical amplifiers)
3.5-Spectroscopic properties of lanthanide ions (luminescence, down-shifiting,
down-conversion, up-conversion)
3.6-Sol-Gel Methodology (Colloids; Nanotechnology; Sol-Gel Process, Organicinorganic
hybrids;
Applications-
Self-Assembly,
Emergent
properties,
Nanotechnology, Biooinspiration and biomimicry in Chemistry)
4-References
Books
4.1- "Glasses and Glass-Ceramics"- Ed. M.H.Lewis, Chapman and Hall, 1989.
4.2- "Glass Science"- R.H.Doremus- John Wiley & Sons, 1973
4.3- "Fluoride glasses"- Ed. A.E.Comyns, John Wiley & Sons, 1989.
4.4- "Les Verres et L''Etat Vitreaux"- J.Zarzycki, Masson, 1982.
4.5- "Chemistry of Glasses- A.Paul, Chapman and Hall, 1982.
4.6- "Glass-Ceramics"- P.W.McMillan, Academic Press, 1979.
4.7- "Physics of Amorphous Materials", S.R.Elliot, Longman, 1990.
4.8- "Glass- Structure by Spectroscopy", J.Wong and C.A.Angell, Marcel
Dekka, 1976.
4.9- G. Jeffrey Brinker, George W. Scherrer, “Sol-gel Science: The Physics and
Chemistry of Sol-Gel Processing, Academic Press, 1990
4.10- Lisa C. Klein, “Sol-Gel Optics: Processing and Applications, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1994
4.11- Pier L. Luisi, "The Emergence of Life- From Chemical Origins to
Synthetic Biology", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
England,2006.
4.12- Janos H. Fendler, "Nanoparticles and Nanostrcutured FilmsPreparation, characterization and applications", Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH,
Weinheim, Germany , 1998.
4.13- Stephen Mann, "Biomineralization- Principles and Concepts in
Bioinorganic Materials Chemistry", Oxford Chemistry Masters, Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 2001.
4.14- Paras Prasad, "Nanophotonics", John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken,
New Jersey, USA, 2004.
4.15 Paras Prasad, "Introduction fo Biophotonics", John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., Hobokne, New Jersey, USA, 2003.
4.16- Guido Kickelbick (Ed.), "Hybrid Materials- Synthesis,
Characterization and Applications", Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co.
KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2007.
4.17- Gerhard F. Swigers (Ed.), “Bioinspiration and biomimicry in
Chemistry”, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
4.18-V.S.Sastri, J-C.Bunzli, V.Ramachandra Rao, G.V.S.Rayudu,
J.R.Perumareddi, “Modern Aspects of Rare Earths and their Complexes”,
Elsevier, 2003.
Papers
4.18- Michail Barboiu, Jean-Marie Lehn, “Dynamical chemical devices:
modulation
of
contraction/extension
molecular
motion
by
coupled-ion
binding/pH change- induced structural switching, PNAS, 2002, 99(8), 52015206
4.19- George M. Whitesides and Amy P. Wong, “The intersection of biology and
materials science”, MRS Bulletin, 2006, 31, 19.
4.20- Andres W. Martinez, Scotte T. Phillips, Emanuel Carrilho, Samuel W.
Thoomas III, Hayat Sindi, George M. Whitesides, “Simple telemedicine for
developing regions: camera phones and paper-based microfluidic devices for
real-time, off-site diagnosis”, Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 3699.
4.21- George M. Whitesides and Darren J. Lipome, “Soft nanotrechnology:
Structure vs function”, Faraday Discuss., 2009, 143, 373.
4.22- Luis D. Carlos, Rute A.S.Ferreira, Verónica Zéa-Bermudez, Sidney
J.L.Ribeiro, “Lanthanide-containing light emitting organic-inorganic hybrids: a
bet on the future”, Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 509-534
4.23J.C.
Bunzli,
S.V.Eliseeva,
“Lanthanide
NIR
luminescence
for
telecommunications, bioanalyses and solar energy conversion”, J. Rare Earthc
28(6)824(2010)
4.24- Jean-Marie Lehn, “Par-delà la synthèse: l´auto-organization”, C.R. Chimie
14(2011) 348-361
4.25- Darren J. Lipomi, Ramses V. Martinez, Michail A. Kats, Sung H. Kang, P.
Kim, Joanna Aizenberg, Federico Capasso, George M. Whitesides, “Patterning
the tips of optical fibers with metallic nanosctructures using nanoskiving”, Nano
Lett. 2011, 11, 632.
4.26- Sindy K.Y. Tang, Ratmir Derda, Qimin quan, Marki Lonear, George M.
Whitesides, “Continuously tunable microdroplet-laser in a microfluidic channel”,
Opt. Express 2011, 19(3), 2204
4.27- George M. Whitesides and John Deutch, “Let´s get practical”, Nature,
2011, 469, 21.
4.28- Stephen A. Morin, Robert F. Shepherd, Sen Wai Kwok, Adam A. Stokes,
Alex Nemiroski, George M. Whitesides, “Camouflage and Display for Soft
Machines”, Science, 2012, 337, 828.
4.29- Shuai Lou, Xingmei Guo, Tongxiang Fan, Di Zhang, “Butterflies:
inspiration for solar cells and sunlight water-splitting catalysts”, Energy Environ.
Sci. 2012, 5, 9195
5- Grading policy
Final grades will be calculated taking into account:
-Weekly proposed follow-up quizzes
-Midterm and final evaluation
-Seminars prepared by participants to be distributed on-line
6- Course Schedule
2 hours pre-recorded weekly sessions to be downloaded
1 hour weekly on-line sessions with tutors and responsible for the classes
Schedule (8:30-10:30 a.m.- Brasilia (Brazil) Time- UCT/GMT -3 hours)
Abril- 9, 16, 23
May- 7, 14, 21 28
June- 4, 11, 18, 25