nanoscale views

Next week is going to be largely internet-free for me, so don't expect much excitement here until early August.  I do have a few things ...

I stumbled across this post , where it is asserted (with no link, and my google-fu is inadequate) that some group or collaboration at Berkel...

I'm a bit late to the party, but there have been discussions lately about the number of undergrad STEM majors, including physics, with s...

In the last two posts I've talked a bit about contact resistances, but I haven't said much of anything about how to infer these expe...

I will make an argument now that contact resistances are much maligned, and instead of rigorously trying to avoid worrying about them, we s...

In condensed matter physics, often we are interested in the flow of charge from a "source" electrode, through some material (the ...

Please pardon the summer blogging slowdown - it's been a surprisingly busy couple of weeks, between an instructor search, working on pap...

I rarely criticize papers.  I write this not to single out the authors (none of whom I know), nor to criticize the actual science (which see...

Ordinarily I wouldn't just post a link, but this article ( " Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career: 15 ways in which faculty membe...

For those interested in the history and current state of "molecular electronics", I refer you to the latest focus issue of Nature ...

Three of my colleagues and I are helping to organize a workshop at Rice University on October 21-23, 2013.   (This had originally been plan...

I've talked before about what physicists mean when they talk about "temperature", and work has me thinking about this a lot t...

RICE UNIVERSITY Wiess Instructorship in Physics and Astronomy The Physics and Astronomy Department at Rice University invites app...

I realized I've never really tried having my readers just post questions for me.   Have at it!

This is at least thought-provoking.  Lamar Smith (R-Texas, chair of the US House science committee, famous for things like this ) and Zoe L...

Very briefly, here is an open letter by the San Jose State University philosophy department regarding MOOCs (one in particular).   Food for...

IBM Almaden research has produced "A Boy and His Atom" , a stop-motion movie where the frames are scanning tunneling microscope im...

I just read this article at Science's blog, describing how Lamar Smith , chair of the House science committee, basically wants to gut p...

About 3.5 years ago, I posted about the technology used by the CDMS collaboration to look for dark matter using clever solid-state detecto...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and concerns about online education are all the rage these days at universities.  There is a growing rec...