MNT-CURN Seminar Series: Word of Light

This video is part of a series from the Micro Nano Technology Education Center's (MNT-EC) Micro Nano Technology Collaborative Undergraduate Research Network (MNT-CURN) Research Program. In this program, students gain hands-on research experience and build nanotechnology technical education skills. Throughout this video series, viewers "... will hear and see nanotechnology and microtechnology professors presenting about their own research and work -- from biosensors to underwater drones to nanomaterials." Each video covers a different specialty that students may want to learn about and pursue as an undergraduate research project.

During this video, presenter Atilla Ozgur Cakmak, Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University, explains photonics. Cakmak discusses photonics before the emergence of nanophotonics, refractive index distribution, lithography, wavelength spectrum, x-ray characterization, quantum tunneling, atomic force microscopy and more. 

This video runs 29:51 minutes in length. Additional videos from this series are available to view separately.