Transcript AGILE: Axially Graded Index Lens fabrication proposal update Week 4 Mentor: Tom Carver Flexible Clean Room, Nano Building Nina Vaidya.

AGILE: Axially Graded Index Lens
fabrication proposal update
Week 4
Mentor: Tom Carver
Flexible Clean Room, Nano Building
Nina Vaidya
UV adhesives of different refractive
indices
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NO138 (1.38)
NO 84 (1.46)
NO 74 (1.52)
NO 63 (1.56)
These UV curable adhesives would be used to
fill the AGILEs
• We already have PDMS 1.4, polyester resin
1.48, epoxy 1.55
• So we can has as many as 9 layers including ice
and high index glass
24 x 22mm Monocrystalline Solar Cell
• http://www.solarbotics.com/products/scc24
22/
• As a visible light detector for AGILE setup
CAD drawing of test setup
Intensity Measurements
• Characterize the solar cell, response different intensities,
to make the optical detector to test AGILEs
Socal Cell Operation
Voltage Output in V
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
0
10
20
30
40
Distance in Inch
50
60
70
80
Refractive index measurement of the
films
• Ellipsometer
Spectral Transmission Measurements
• Spectrophotometer measurements for different
film samples to characterize the optical
adhesives and the polymers in the Fejer lab
(nano 011)
• Optical adhesives will be put between two glass
slabs with a spacer to make thin films and then
this can be used a specimen for the
transmission measurements for the polymers
that are not characterized
Next steps
• Al array is ready and the back to back structure
is being make by Tim Brand in the Crystal shop
• The Norland optical adhesives are here so we
can start filling the Al arrays
• Visible range photo detector also ordered from
Thorlabs and I will make a circuit for it to test the
AGILEs (this is back up if the solar detector is
not accurate enough)
• The solar detector is tested and will be used in
the housing (like in CAD drawing) to test the
AGILEs once they are make