Accession Number:

ADA621873

Title:

Magneto-Electric Conversion of Optical Energy to Electricity

Descriptive Note:

Final performance rept. 1 Apr 2012-31 Mar 2015

Corporate Author:

MICHIGAN UNIV ANN ARBOR

Personal Author(s):

• Rand, Stephen C.

Report Date:

2015-07-06

Pagination or Media Count:

12.0

Abstract:

In the third and final year of research on magneto-electric conversion of optical energy to electricity, several major project objectives were achieved in the areas of theory and experiment. This was chiefly the result of a breakthrough in understanding the reported enhancement of magneto-electric scattering and switching to computer codes based on Matlab to improve both the speed of computations and the time required to acquire data. On the theoretical front, a dressed state approach was successfully developed to analyze optical magnetization. The introduction of Matlab software resulted in significant speedup. Computational timescales for large matrix diagonalizations went from days to hours. Applied to atomistic models, these computations of induced dipole moments revealed that the family of nonlinearities of interest in this work arise from dynamic symmetry-breaking by the optical magnetic field.

Descriptors:

• *ENERGY CONVERSION
• *NONLINEAR OPTICS
• *SPINTRONICS
• CAPACITORS
• COMPUTATIONS
• DIPOLE MOMENTS
• EFFICIENCY
• ELECTRODYNAMICS
• ETHYLENE GLYCOL
• EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
• FABRICATION
• HARMONICS
• LIGHT SCATTERING
• MAGNETIC FIELDS
• MAGNETIZATION
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)
• NANOTECHNOLOGY
• OPTICAL PROPERTIES
• OPTIMIZATION
• POLARIZATION
• SEMICONDUCTORS
• SENSOR FUSION
• VOLTAGE

Subject Categories:

• Physical Chemistry
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Optics
• Solid State Physics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE