Hello world. Earlier in December the PopLab attended ieee iedm in San Francisco. About 1/3 the usual attendance, but well-run, safe, and many breakthroughs. #IEDM21

All these fancy journals with high impact factors have a clever business model, making everyone run after them, but when it comes to learning a topic from the basics, there is no alternative to old school society journals.

In Dec’21, ieee iedm, several groups described improved 2D contacts: Both Intel and TSMC showed Sb can make 150-to-660 Ω⋅μm contacts to monolayer MoS2. Aravindh Kumar (our group + K. Saraswat) showed that In/Au alloys can also get us below 200 Ω⋅μm. #IEDM21 #IEDM2021

David Ferry's updated book on "Hot Carriers in Semiconductors" recently became available online, through a library subscription: iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-750… Prof. Ferry (Arizona State University and ASU School of Electrical, Computer & Energy Eng) is one of the giants of semiconductor theory and simulation: ferry.faculty.asu.edu

Thank you! And many thanks to Intel for recognizing our work on "Doping & Contacts for 2D Materials". All the credit goes to Kirstin Schauble, Aravindh Kumar, Connor McClellan, Ryan Grady, Eilam Yalon (now Technion Israel), and other group alumni. Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) intel.com/content/www/us…

Interesting opinion piece about the nature (and Nature) of publishing in experimental vs. theoretical physics. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Pop Lab members are giving or contributing to 13 talks at the MRS Spring 2022 meeting (May 8-13)! Catch them all with the schedule below.👇#S22MRS Materials Research Society (MRS) Stanford Engineering Stanford Materials Science and Engineering standford

Thanks Boris Dyatkin and MRS Bulletin for this nice article on our flexible TMD solar cells. Alwin Daus Aravindh Kumar Mark Brongersma Eric Pop

A #STEM PhD in the US costs around $100k/yr in taxpayer (e.g. U.S. National Science Foundation) or other grant money that the faculty must raise. At Stanford, an experimental PhD student is about $140k/yr. Theory students (no lab, only coffee) are $116k/yr. A 5-year PhD is well over $0.5M! #AcademicTwitter

Satyendra Nath Bose recalls his unfortunate interview for a research assistant position at Madame Curie's lab in Paris

Chicago is the most crystalline city in the world (appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.10…). I took the "powder diffraction pattern" (radially integrated FFT) of Chicago and did a crystallographic refinement in TOPAS. The rectangular cell matches Chicago's 4x1 block shape!

How to MOVE your Mendeley library to Zotero: A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵 Why move, you ask? Elsevier is SHUTTING DOWN Mendeley Desktop app on Sept. 1, 2022 😱

This chart, mortgage as a percentage of GDP, is highly relevant. Most rural Indians own their homes outright. It is extremely important we preserve outright home ownership, even as people upgrade their homes as productivity & incomes improve. Many social benefits arise from this.

Just returned from Pop Lab & friends BBQ (from Mannix Lab, Mitra, Saraswat, Goodson, Wong groups), many thanks to Rob Bennett for organizing! Great to see new faces (welcome Haotian and Koustav) and several Bay Area alumni. Astro-Gato was hands-down the best party animal.

Please RT! Eric Pop and Mannix Lab at Stanford have a joint postdoc opening in MOCVD growth of 2D semiconductors. Apply by email (not Twitter) to Profs. Mannix and Pop, subject "MOCVD postdoc". Attach CV with all publications in a short email explaining your qualifications.

Good for 2D semiconductors. imec puts "atomic channels" on their technology roadmap in 2036. Many puzzles to solve till then! There is growing consensus that atomically thin 2D semiconductors are the main post-Si option. CFET = stacked NMOS and PMOS. tomshardware.com/news/imec-reve…

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: The Rover completed its assignments. It is now safely parked and set into Sleep mode. APXS and LIBS payloads are turned off. Data from these payloads is transmitted to the Earth via the Lander. Currently, the battery is fully charged. The solar panel is

blowing my own trumpet… but sounds good…

Some details from the rescue of China's DRO-A & B lunar sats: after failure of the YZ-1S upper stage, emergency orbit reconstruction took 167 days of manoeuvres, inc. 5 orbit manoeuvres, 5 corrections and 3 gravity assists, successfully entering distant retrograde orbit on Aug.