nanoscale views

The two recent posts about the Seebeck effect and hot electrons  give some context so that I can talk about a paper we published last mont...

In basic chemistry or introductory quantum mechanics, you learn about the idea of energy levels for electrons.  If you throw a bunch of elec...

I will be posting more soon.  I'm in the midst of finally shifting my group webpage to a more modern design.  In the meantime, if there ...

Some interesting items of note: Gil Refael at Cal Tech has a discussion going on the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter blog...

I noticed I'd never written up anything about thermoelectricity , and while the wikipedia entry is rather good, it couldn't hurt to ...

I've written previously about bad metals .  We recently published a result (also here ) looking at what happens to conduction in an exa...

About 10000 people turned out (according to the Houston Chronicle) for our local version of the March for Science.   Observations: While ...

Every now and then there is an article that makes you sit up and say "Wow!"   Epitaxy is the growth of crystalline material on ...

There has been a great deal written by many (e.g., 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) about the upcoming March for Science .  I'm going to the Houston s...

People have spent a lot of time and effort in trying to control the flow and transfer of heat.   Heat is energy transferred in a disorgani...

It's a trope that's appeared repeatedly in science fiction:  the shrink ray , a device that somehow takes ordinary matter and reduce...

A brief post in a busy time:  If you like well-written, even-handed journalistic discussions of science, I strongly recommend checking out I...

Intel has developed a new product, dubbed Optane, that is a memory technology that supposedly combined the speed of conventional DRAM with ...

I have tried hard to avoid political tracts on this blog, because I don't think that's why people necessarily want to read here.  Po...

Hello readers - I have travel plans such that I have to leave the APS meeting after lunch today.  That means I will miss the big Kavli Sympo...

Some highlights from day 2 (though I spent quite a bit of time talking with colleagues and collaborators): Harold Hwang of Stanford gave...

Some talks I saw today at the APS March Meeting in New Orleans: John Martinis spoke about " quantum supremacy ".  Quantum sup...

Once again, it's that time of year when somewhat absurd numbers of condensed matter (and other) physicists gather together.  This time t...

Similarly, over the years I have written several posts about (academic) career topics.  Google doesn't always pagerank these very highly...

Over the years I've written quite a few posts that try to explain physics concepts relevant to condensed matter/nano topics.  I've t...