Five years in 49 minutes

I've had piles and piles of questions about the research that I did in gradschool, so here it is! Be careful what you wish for... About a year ago I defended my dissertation from UCSB in Materials, exploring, among other things, growth of a semiconductor called lead selenide, a narrow-gap material with a bright (ba-dum-tss) future in the realm of infrared optoelectronics. I hope you enjoy! For more information than you could ever reasonably desire: https://escholarship.org/content/qt9mj491xk/qt9mj491xk.pdf Viewers of the channel are probably going to be most interested in all the fun machines featured in chapter 2, "Experimental Methods" - Molecular beam epitaxy (making crystals in ultra high vacuum) - X-ray diffraction (explained with almost no math) - Electron microscopy (many variants) Music in this video: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626