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So in this video, I'm going to give an overview of optoelectronics and photonics.
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And this is going to be the subject of many future videos on this discipline.
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But what are the questions that we're trying to ask when we talk about optoelectronics and photonics?
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Well, the core questions are first, how does light interact with matter?
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and so from our everyday experience we sort of know that
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if you send a beam of light at some material we know
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that some of it is going to get absorbed so some of it's going to get absorbed
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some might get reflected back to our eyes
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so we can actually see it and depending on the material some might get transmitted through it.
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So materials can be transparent, for example.
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And so we're interested in what's happening exactly inside this black box.
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So what is the process of absorption, reflection, and transmission look like?
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And absorption is going to be our primary focus because this is sort of the core of how optoelectronic devices operate.
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And once we understand this, we're going to answer the question that engineers are generally more interested in, which is, how can we create devices?
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How can we create devices, devices is spelled with an E, that manipulate light?
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so these are the likes of lasers LEDs absorption modulators all sorts of other other cool fun devices
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and once we understand how light interacts with matter then we'll be able to start to understand
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and answer the question of how we would go about designing a laser
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or an LED
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or how we go about analyzing them like what their limitations are what their spectrum looks like what their emission
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or absorption spectrum looks like
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and how we expect them to behave in a circuit now personally I think optoelectronics is probably the coolest
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of all the disciplines I've been a part of and that's just
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because it's so complicated like it's it requires so many different
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so many different domains of knowledge you need to understand quantum
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mechanics you need to understand electromagnetics you need to understand to
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a certain degree circuits device physics devices physics doesn't start with
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an s device physics to a certain extent you need to understand optics
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and more general electronics and you need to understand most challenging is how all of these sort of behave together,
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how one flows into another, and how they interact with each other.
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And so I think optoelectronics is super cool to study for this reason.
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And it sort of brings together many different domains of knowledge into a coherent model, which is really, really cool.
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And so where do we start?
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How do we go about figuring out how we're going to create devices?
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Well, we're going to start with the two energy level system.
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So these are just two different energy levels.
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These aren't bands.
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This isn't a band diagram like you might expect.
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And each of these energy levels has some wave function associated with it.
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So it's got some state, some electronic state that's associated with it.
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And maybe we've got an electron up here residing in this state.
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Maybe we've got an electron down here residing in this state
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and we want to know what happens
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or maybe we've got an electron in both
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or neither we want to know what happens when I send in light
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so when I send in light of a certain frequency
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or equivalently a certain energy
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so what happens to this system what happens to these electrons
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where do they go what happens to the the energies of the system
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if anything and once we understand just how two individual energy levels interact.
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Just two.
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So one, two.
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From there, we'll be able to figure out how entire materials interact.
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So from there, we go to analyzing the band structure or what's called the band structure of materials.
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And you might see diagrams that look something like this.
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So this is what band diagrams often look like in photonics.
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And we'll go through, Don't worry if this scares you.
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This is an energy momentum diagram And we'll go over what exactly everything means here, but briefly, energy is on the y -axis,
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momentum is on the x -axis, and this lets us figure out how electrons and holes,
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and in particular photons, are emitted and absorbed by this material.
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So a photon, for example, we've got an electron up here and a hole down here.
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We're allowed to emit a photon as these two recombine with each other.
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So this is the conduction band and these are the various valence bands.
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And so once we figure that out, once we figure out where photons are allowed to go between,
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and we're also we'll also analyze things like quasi Fermi levels
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so EFC and EFV and how these affect how these affect our absorption
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or how the how these affect our band diagrams
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and how we go about representing them once once we understand
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this we can move to actually analyzing the absorption spectrum
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or the absorption and gain spectrum of semiconductor devices
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and specifically of bulk devices or if I've in other words
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if I've just got a slab for example of germanium
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or gallium arsenide or something what happens
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when I send in light to this material how much of it is going to get absorbed within the material
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and we'll actually be able to derive and plot what this absorption specter will look like, or what this absorption and gain specter will look like.
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And we'll figure out how exactly that depends on things like the carrier concentration inside the material.
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So this is alpha, and this is h bar omega, for example, on this axis.
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And so alpha is the absorption coefficient.
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And it will turn out that we can actually get negative absorption some of the time.
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And this is called gain.
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So this region where we have negative absorption is called gain.
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So this is alpha equals zero on the y -axis.
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And we'll understand how we go about getting gain out of a material or negative absorption.
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And this is the basis for pretty much all lasers.
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You need a material that gives you gain, and you'll see why in future videos.
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But it turns out that instead of just having this hunk of material here,
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so instead of just having this hunk of germanium or gallium arsenide or whatever light emitting or absorbing material,
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it's actually way, way more efficient to have what are called quantum wells inside your system.
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And so we'll analyze what exactly the absorption spectra looks like in that case, and it will turn out to look something like this.
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Instead of this smoothly varying thing, we've actually got a staircase going on, and so this is for quantum wells.
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We'll also briefly analyze things like quantum wires and quantum dots and what their absorption spectra look like.
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And just as with the bulk case, we can also have gain in our quantum well.
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So for certain, under certain conditions, we can have negative absorption.
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And then it just tracks out whatever our gain looked like previously.
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But we'll analyze when we can get this.
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So when we can get this bizarre negative absorption, also known as gain, and what conditions need to be met for us to do that.
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We'll also go over how you actually make these quantum wells, and what they look like, not just their conduction band, but also their valence band,
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and what the consequences are of us having two of these.
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And so this, for example, might be indium gallium arsenide.
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This might be gallium arsenide.
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And this is what's called a heterostructure.
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A heterostructure.
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And these are the basis for how all quantum wells are made.
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And this is how most modern lasers and LEDs are fabricated.
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So heterostructures are really the core of all of modern active optical devices.
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And so we'll understand how to analyze them, what their band diagrams look like,
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what happens when you inject electrons or holes
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and where the energy levels are of this system
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and from there the last thing you need to understand before
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you understand lasers is mirrors in particular mirrors in the configuration of resonators
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so we'll go over how resonators behave so if we've got some incident I didn't.
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electric field or some light, what happens as it bounces back and forth inside a mirror or inside a set of two mirrors?
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And so we'll analyze all of these bounces.
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And if we've got some material inside these two mirrors, which maybe it absorbs light,
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or maybe it has a certain negative absorption or a certain gain, what happens? So what happens here? And also,
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why do we even want to use resonators like why why
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can't we just stick chunks of optical optically active material
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that has a certain gain or a certain absorption and send light
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or send an electric field uh into that like what what's what's wrong with
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that why do we need these uh why do we need these resonators
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and to analyze these resonators we'll be going over the scattering matrix
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which is sort of the central way of analyzing them it's it's quite intuitive
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if you've ever taken like an RF course before or circuits class
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or electromagnetics and this is connected to the transfer matrix of the system
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and these are actually used in practice
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so I actually use these use transfer matrix simulators to calculate
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what my how my optical devices will behave in my research
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and it's spectacularly accurate like it's just fabulous and after we understand mirrors
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and resonators we'll finally be able to understand devices so things like LEDs
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things like lasers also for example modulators so this is a central focus of my research right now.
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And so I'm probably going to make a few videos on it.
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But also things like photodetectors.
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So photodetectors, these might be photodiodes, these might be photoconductors.
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And we'll analyze briefly noise in all of these systems.
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So lasers, LEDs, and photodetectors, and how this impacts device performance.
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We'll also not just analyze these in what's called steady state,
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or how these devices behave when you just sort of apply a constant voltage or a constant current,
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but also what happens when you vary the current, or what are the dynamics of the system?
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How fast can I get my LEDs or my lasers or my photodetectors to operate?
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What are the limitations there?
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And last but not least, we need to get light in and out of these systems.
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And so we're going to go over waveguides.
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so we're going to go over how we actually transport light
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from point a to point b on something like a photonic integrated circuit
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or just across some distance and waveguides are the central way of doing this
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so these are optical fibers are one kind of waveguide
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but we've also got slab waveguides as well as rectangular waveguides and other sorts of waveguides
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And waveguides are critical to sort of any time you want
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to move light from point A to point B without a massive amount of loss between the two points.
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You really need a waveguide.
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Now, you could also use lenses, or you could also use an optical system.
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But this is the subject of optics.
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And so this I go, I actually do have some videos right now in optics.
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And so you can give those a look if you like.
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and we might have time for some other special topics here
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and there so I might get into coupled mode theory
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which is something I've been meaning to learn for a very long time
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and maybe some other advanced topics as well depending on what the what the comments section pops up with
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but I'm really looking forward to you
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and taking this journey with me to learn optoelectronics
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and photonics it's it's a really cool discipline
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and I think you'll have a lot of fun and
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so with that I just want to say thanks for watching the video
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and if you have any questions or comments
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or video requests Just put them down in the in the comment section below
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and don't forget to like and subscribe for more optoelectronics and photonics videos

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這段影片共有 166 個句子、2075 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 14:40。 說話人語速平穩,每分鐘約 141 個詞,很適合跟讀。 83% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞,其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

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影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞,附發音和釋義:

單詞發音釋義
absorption 名詞/æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩/吸收
analyze 動詞/ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/分析
laser 名詞/ˈleɪzɚ/雷射, 雷射
quantum 名詞/ˈkwɑntəm/量
mirror 名詞/ˈmiɹɚ/җинзы, 鏡 /鏡
spectrum 名詞/ˈspɛktɹəm/範圍 /範圍, 光譜 /光譜
diagram 名詞/ˈdaɪ.ə.ɡɹæm/圖 /圖, 圖表 /圖表
absorb 動詞/æbˈsɔɹb/吸收
interact 動詞/ɪn.təˈɹækt/互動 /互動
behave 動詞/bɪˈheɪv/為人 /為人
axis 名詞/ˈæksɪs/軸 /軸, 軸心 /軸心
electron 名詞/ɪˈlɛk.tɹɑn/電子 /電子
physics 名詞/ˈfɪz.ɪks/物理學 /物理學
alpha 名詞/ˈæl.fə/阿爾法 /阿爾法, 阿伐
discipline 名詞/ˈdɪsəplɪn/紀律 /紀律

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞釋義
figure out 動詞弄清楚
turn out 動詞原來 /原來
go through 動詞通過 /通過
look forward to 動詞期待, 嚮往

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結構影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼,而不是誰做的is spelled · are emitted · are allowed
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事I've been · you've ever taken

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  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: absorption /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, transmission /tɹænsˈmɪʃən/
  • 長單詞——注意重音位置: associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/

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