Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
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Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
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Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#2Discussion from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2513293.
Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#3Why the experimental points don't have error bars?
Is it not possible to use four terminal sensing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-terminal_sensing Perhaps the sample is too irregular, but for very low resistance samples using only two terminals never work.
Can they use a lock-in amplifier? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-in_amplifier When it works, it's like magic. I'm not sure that it is useful here
> I attached them as appropriate to the second-rate equipment I scavenged from the back of the lab, none of which worked properly.
Yep, that's usual.
In next life, remember to be a mathematician.
Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#4I think this is a good deal older than 2007, but my memory could be playing tricks on me. I could swear I had read this when I was studying semiconductors in school, in the early 2000s.
Edit: could be I'm thinking of Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics, and I read this article later.
Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#5"...by waving your hands and chanting "to first order"."
I've found that to be very successful in all walks of life.
Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#6I think this is a good deal older than 2007, but my memory could be playing tricks on me. I could swear I had read this when I was studying semiconductors in school, in the early 2000s. Edit: could be I'm thinking of Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics, and I read this article later.
Considering he graduated from Stanford in '99 I would say so.
Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#7" ...by waving your hands and chanting "to first order". " I've found that to be very successful in all walks of life.
Haha, I found that particularly hilarious XD. We did this all throughout my physics degree.
Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#8" ...by waving your hands and chanting "to first order". " I've found that to be very successful in all walks of life.
Another classic in the same vein as the linked article is http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~dinoj/scilies.html, which contains this nugget:
"Correct to within an order of magnitude."
Wrong.
Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#9Virtually everything, and I mean everything in your post was wrong, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it.
Laser scientists know that if you use (a well anti-reflection coated) Ge window or lens to transmit a high power CO2 laser beam, slight absorption heats it a little. Heating it a little makes it more absorptive. So it heats a little more. And so forth, until the motherf——r cracks: “thermal runaway.”
Guess why? You are going to be a good experimental physicist eventually. Eventually. I spent two years blowing up homemade nitrogen lasers at Berkeley. Keep posting!
Re: Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
#10Brilliantly written. Blows all other academic papers out of the water. Brevity, eloquence, effective application of profanity. Love it.