Bachelor or master thesis "Rough surfaces and random distributions of particles in photonic devices"
| Topic | Nanophotonics and -plasmonics, theory and simulation |
| Methods | Boundary Element Method (BEM), Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (RCWA) |
| Skills | Computational electrodynamics, nanoscience, programming |
| Software | Python, C/C++, Matlab, Mathematica, COMSOL |
Die Einheitszelle einer zweidimensionalen Struktur kann verwendet werden, um Quasi-zufallsverteilungen zu erreichen.
Image: Prof. Dr. Ulf PeschelThe fabrication of random nanoparticle distributions is often cheaper and faster than regular surface patterning methods and can be achieved by both physical and chemical methods. In terms of theoretical modeling, these present a particular challenge.
With the goal of further investigating applications from photovoltaics, catalysis, spectroscopy and related fields, this work deals with random distributions up to atomically rough surfaces.
Theoretical models and numerical methods to describe scattering effects, as well as the incorporation of the developed model into the RCWA method for multilayer systems are planned.