nanoscale views

For those readers who are APS members, a reminder.  The deadline for nominations for invited symposia for the Division of Condensed Matter ...

It's been a long week and lots of seriously bad things have been in the news.   I intend to briefly distract myself by looking at that l...

How does a ball bounce?  Why does a ball, dropped from some height onto a flat surface, not bounce all the way back up to its starting heigh...

Here are a few highlights from the workshop I mentioned .  I'll amend this over the next couple of days as I have time.  There is no qu...

Blogging has been slow b/c of travel.  I'm attending a workshop on "Quantum transport in nanoscale molecular systems".  This ...

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...