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Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by varenc »

Love the old internet feel to the site.

You can see it's been basically unchanged for 25 years! Here's the 2001 snapshot from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010202180000/https://britneysp...

Just keeping any site functional and up for so long is impressive by itself.

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

DrewADesign wrote: post #47
andrehacker wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brian May (Queen) has a PhD degree in astrophysics :)

Tom Scholz, the guitarist for Boston with a masters in MechE from MIT, built his own effects, and much of his own recording equipment.

The story of getting their first album made is epic

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by skopje »

dmd wrote: post #37
skopje wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MA is master of art according to google. MSc seems right.

Many (most, in the US; don't know about Sweden or Australia) institutions don't draw a distinction between the two and award MA regardless.

did not know!

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by userbinator »

varenc wrote: post #51

Love the old internet feel to the site. You can see it's been basically unchanged for 25 years! Here's the 2001 snapshot from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010202180000/https://britneysp... Just keeping any site functional and up for so long is impressive by itself.

It's only impressive if you've become accustomed to the unfortunate trend of forced obsolescence and the desire of many to justify useless recurring "maintenance" busywork. Basic HTML and CSS will always work.

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by userbinator »

modeless wrote: post #40

From the same era of the internet I recall a site called the "Large Hardon Collider" making fun of the very common subtle typo. IIRC it had a light blue background and crude (in more ways than one) pencil diagrams. I can't find it now and I wonder if anyone else remembers it?

https://web.archive.org/web/20170814124609/http://largehardo...

(NSFW, obviously.)

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by caliweed »

"In the last section, we looked at the p-n junction. More efficient recombination of electron-hole pairs can be acheived by incorporation of a thin layer of semiconductor material, either p or n type semiconductor with a smaller energy gap than the cladding layers, to form a double heterostructure. (More on this in the future). As the active layer thickness in a double heterostructure becomes close to the De-Broglie wavelength (about 10nm for semiconductor laser devices) quantum effects become apparent."

Are you playing with my heart?

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by adastra22 »

userbinator wrote: post #55
varenc wrote: post #51

Love the old internet feel to the site. You can see it's been basically unchanged for 25 years! Here's the 2001 snapshot from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010202180000/https://britneysp... Just keeping any site functional and up for so long is impressive by itself.

It's only impressive if you've become accustomed to the unfortunate trend of forced obsolescence and the desire of many to justify useless recurring "maintenance" busywork. Basic HTML and CSS will always work.

Maintaining a working server over that time is the challenge.

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by mek6800d2 »

DrewADesign wrote: post #47
andrehacker wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brian May (Queen) has a PhD degree in astrophysics :)

Tom Scholz, the guitarist for Boston with a masters in MechE from MIT, built his own effects, and much of his own recording equipment.

I still remember a very interesting article about him in the Electronic Engineering Times back in 1998: "Boston's Scholz Engineers a Rock Dynasty"

https://web.archive.org/web/19990224204558/http://www.eetime...

"Wherever there's a microprocessor, there's trouble."

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Post by makeitdouble »

twodave wrote: post #44
makeitdouble wrote: post #22

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It would be absurd if pop stars by defintion could not explain semiconductor physics. Like how a snake wearing boots is absurd.

You are being pedantic, but I’ll play along. Absurd has multiple meanings. It can mean nonsensical, but it can also mean utterly ridiculous or silly. Under those other meanings I believe the pop-star-physics-professor still qualifies.

It sounds pedantic, but "absurd" is fundamentally different from "rare". A lot of baggage comes from flagging something as absurd, instead of just unexpected or uncommon. Winning the lottery isn't absurd, having 3 pairs of some chromosome isn't either, and being a successful pop singer with an academic background isn't either, it's just rare.
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