nanoscale views

Things have been a bit busy, but here are a few items that have popped up recently: Symmetry magazine is generally insightful and well-w...

Earlier this year I'd described what thermoelectricity is , and I'd also discussed recent work of ours where we used a laser as a s...

Two books that look right up my alley: Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski .  Dr. Czerski is a researcher at University College London, p...

Over twenty years ago, Congress de-funded its Office of Technology Assessment , which was meant to be a non-partisan group (somewhat analogo...

I've been thinking about and planning to put together some resources about condensed matter physics and nanoscience that would be helpfu...

Before blogging further about science, I wanted to explain something about the way research grants work in the US.  Consider this part of my...

Summer travel and other activities have slowed blogging, but I'll pick back up again soon.  In the meantime, here are a couple of intere...

Two years ago I wrote this post about IBM's announcement of "7 nm transistors", and it still gets many pageviews every week. ...

A couple of weeks ago, Sean Carroll made an offhand remark (the best kind) on twitter about what every physics major should know.  That pr...

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...