tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post3404146460349011848..comments2024-03-29T02:45:10.096-05:00Comments on nanoscale views: March Meeting, days 1 and 2Douglas Natelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-84041783809162119082009-03-18T19:47:00.000-05:002009-03-18T19:47:00.000-05:00Well, since I work in the area I can't avoid comme...Well, since I work in the area I can't avoid commenting.... It's well established that some of the early molecular electronics work was sloppy and either poorly reproducible or badly interpreted. It was most definitely overhyped as well. Still, over the last several years there really has been substantial progress, both in making the relevant systems and in understanding their physics. Clearly I have my personal opinions about which results I think are the strongest, but in general there has been a vast improvement. Latha's work is extremely nice - I particularly like how data acquisition and analysis is entirely automated, so that there's no chance of cherry-picking particular pieces of data. There's definitely something to be said for histogramming *everything*.Douglas Natelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-1939998055108344072009-03-18T18:33:00.000-05:002009-03-18T18:33:00.000-05:00Latha Venkataraman is an interesting and rare exam...Latha Venkataraman is an interesting and rare example of someone who left academia for consulting and came back later to have pretty good success. <BR/><BR/>The whole field of single molecule electronics is highly controversial though. A lot of work has been published where people did not pay proper attention to quality/structure/purity of contacts or details mechanisms of tunneling/hopping. Now it's hard to know what to believe, so I remain somewhat skeptical of the entire field, perhaps unfairly so.NONEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10714684038171784902noreply@blogger.com