nanoscale views

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thz_freq_in_EM_spectrum.png?uselang=en-gb At a thesis proposal talk yesterday, I realized that I...

Anyone out there using a Newport NPC3SG controller to drive a piezo positioning stage, with computer communication successfully talking to t...

Assistant Professor Position at Rice University in Theoretical Astro-Particle Physics/Cosmology The Department of Physics and Astrono...

Faculty Position in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Rice University The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in...

And from the last half-day of the meeting: Because the mobile electrons in graphene have an energy-momentum relationship similar to that ...

More things I learned: I've talked about skyrmions before.  It turns out that by coupling a ferromagnet to a strong spin-orbit coupl...

I'm pressed for time, so this is brief, but here are some things I learned yesterday: An electric field perpendicular to the plane can...

The Basic Energy Sciences program is part of the US Department of Energy's Office of Science , and they are responsible for a lot of ex...

There is an enormous amount of physics involved in storms and floods.   The underlying, emergent properties of water are key to much of this...

Looks like it's going to be a wet few days, with the arrival of Harvey .   I've mentioned previously that hurricanes and tropical st...

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...