nanoscale views

Writing writing writing.  In the meantime: This is a very solid video about physics careers - especially at around the 10 minute mark.  ...

Ferromagnets are solids, in pretty nearly every instance I can recall (though I suppose it's not impossible to imagine an itinerant Ston...

I just returned from some travel, and I have quite a bit of writing I need to do, but here are a few items of interest: No matter how man...

It was very distressing to read this news article in Nature  about the treatment of scientists of Chinese background (from the point of vie...

One aspect of experimental physics that I've always found interesting is the funny, specialized expertise that can be very hard to trans...

As I've mentioned before, there is a lot of discussion lately about the physics subject GRE.  The exam  is intended to cover a typical u...

I'll be writing more soon, but in the meantime, some items of interest: A cute online drawing utility for making diagrams and flowcha...

A number of interesting items: The slides for most of the talks at the Shoucheng Zhang memorial workshop  are now available - there are ...

I review quite a few papers - not Millie Dresselhaus level , but a good number.  Lately, some of the electronic review systems (e.g., manusc...

(Very) long-time readers of this blog will remember waaaay back in 2006-2007, when an Irish company called Steorn  claimed that they had inv...

There are many ways to generate light from an electrically driven metal nanostructure.   The simplest situation is just what happens in a...

Here is an updated and slightly reorganized (since 2017) listing of posts I've made over the years trying to explain some key concepts i...

Graduate programs in physics (and other science and engineering disciplines) often have some kind of exam that students have to take on the ...

One essential concept in condensed matter physics is spontaneous symmetry breaking  - the idea that the collective response of many componen...

As I have been short on time to do as much writing of my own as I would like, here are links to some good, fun articles: Ryan Mandelbaum ...

A fun paper jumped out at me from last night's batch of preprints on the condensed matter arxiv . arXiv:1904.06409 - Ivashtenko et al...

A few brief items as I get ready to write some more about several issues: The NY Times posted this great video about using patterned hyd...

We had another great colloquium last week, this one by Stephanie Palmer of the University of Chicago.  One aspect of her research looks at ...

Slow posting recently because of many real-life things going on after the March Meeting.  We had a very engaging colloquium this week by Vic...

I spent the lion's share of today talking w/ my collaborators.  This was great scientifically, but meant that I only went to a couple of...