Happy New Year! This is what I hope to be writing about this year ('*' indicates things that were promised last year, but not delivered, so this might be a vain hope)
Physics
Introduction to lasers
Why you should care about electron spin*
Quantum whats? Semiconductors at the nanoscale
Photonic crystals
Space based solar power - WITH LASERS
The QW solar cell
Research blogging - doping quantum dots
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What I Did On My Holidays
“What do you tell the dead when you lose?” - Yasukuni Jinja
Shinjuku metropolitan building and aging modernity
Book reviews
A review of Japanese-English dictionaries
Public service and notes to self
Hermite polynomials
Python practice
A note on SESAMs
Trolling
Random Dictator with Quota - the best form of PR
Why Physics should be more like Media Studies
The history of the LASER as a counter-example to the Libertarian model of scientific innovation
Penrose: the case for the defence*
