nanoscale views

 Real life continues to be busy, but I wanted to point out three recent articles that I found interesting: Mechanical resonators are a topic...

The Wall Street Journal last week had an article (sorry about the paywall) titled " There’s Not Enough Power for America’s High-Tech A...

When I was a kid, I used to take allowance money and occasionally buy rubber-band-powered balsa wood airplanes at a local store.  Maybe you...

One of the biggest condensed matter trends in recent years has been the stacking of 2D materials and the development of moiré lattices .  Th...

 Three items of interest: This article is a nice review of present semiconductor memory technology.  The electron micrographs in Fig. 1 and...

Real life has been very busy recently.  Posting will hopefully pick up soon.   One brief item.  Earlier this week, Rice hosted Gabi Kotliar ...

Figuring out what to include in an undergraduate introduction to solid-state physics course is always a challenge.   Books like the present ...

The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting.  A few items of interest: The present issue of Nature Physics ...

Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in which my student spoke as did some collabor...

My highlights today are a bit thin, because I was fortunate enough to spend time catching up with collaborators and old friends, but here go...

A decent part of today was spent in conversation with friends and colleagues, but here are some high points of scientific talks: The DMP pri...

There is no question that the meeting venue in Minneapolis is superior in multiple ways to last year's meeting in Las Vegas.  The conven...

This week I'm going to be at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis.  As I've done in past years, I will try to write up some highlig...

It's been four years since I posted the previous version of this, so it feels like the time is right for an update. This is written on t...

A year and a half ago, I mentioned that I was going to teach a course through Rice's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies , trying to...

A couple of interesting things to read: As someone interested in lost ancient literature and also science, I really liked this news article ...

When I was at Berkeley at the beginning of the week to give a seminar, I was fortunate enough to overlap with their departmental physics col...

Generative AI for image generation is a controversial topic for many reasons .  Still, as someone who doesn't have a staff of graphic a...

Suppose someone has synthesized or found what they think is a new material. How do people studying materials (condensed matter physicists, ...