Course Description: The optical properties of single films, design and multilayer optical coatings, calculation and visualization aids, accurate computation methods, introduction to manufacturing methods, non-ideal behavior of thin films.

Course Objectives: Understanding of thin-film optics and the various structures that are used in design, manufacture and employment of optical coatings.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

Introduction

Properties of single metal and dielectric films.

Quarter and Half Wave layers.

Introduction to multilayer coatings.

Computation

Characteristic matrices.

Computing.

The vector diagram.

The admittance diagram.

Back-of-the-envelope techniques for approximate calculation and improved understanding of multilayer properties.

The Design of Optical Coating

Antireflection coatings.

High reflectance coatings.

Edge filters.

Bandpass filters - metal-dielectric and all-dielectric filters.

Coatings for ultrafast applications.

Titled Films

Oblique incidence - polariation.

The effect of tilting on multilayer coatings.

The design of polarizers.

The minimization of the effects of tilting.

Special Techniques

Equivalent admittances of symmetrical periods.

Automatic design and synthesis.

Real Coatings

Manufacturing processes and techniques.

Tolerancing and monitoring.

Real thin-film behavior.

Thin-film microstructure and its effects on film properties.

Course Requirements:

Laboratory: None

Project: None

Notes:

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Degree Applicability:

CE[AA]	CH[NA]	CS[AA]	EE[BDE]	EM[E]	ESM[NA]	MAT[E]
MBA[NA]	ME[E]	MES[BE]	MSE[E]	SE[NA]	SY[AA]

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NTU Semester Credit Hours: 3
Number of Lecture Hours: 30 (75 minute) lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: Tuesday/Thursday

Contributing Scholar:
Angus MacLeod
Thin Film Center, Inc.
University of Arizona
2745 E. Via Rotonda
Tucson, AZ   85716-5227
Phone: 520-322-6171

angus@thinfilmcenter.com

Note: Contributing Scholars are responsible for the design, organization, content, and presentation of NTU courses. Online classroom management, student management, and other matters related to academic administration of courses are the responsibility of support "Faculty". Either person is often called "Instructor". To identify and differentiate between these roles, we use the terms "Contributing Scholar" and "Faculty".

Academic/Administrative Contact:  
Ms. Pam Shack
Phone: 520-626-4573
Fax: 520-626-1102
pshack@email.arizona.edu


Prerequisites: Familiarity with complex numbers, simple matrices, and fundamental optical concepts (refractive index, polarization, harmonic wave, interference, path difference, reflectance, transmittance and refraction).

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

1.	Course Notes available from instructor.