Links
an incomplete list of links with useful informationGeneral Reference:
- Principles of Semiconductor Devices, a free online textbook by B. Van Zeghbroeck
- A Heat Transfer Textbook another free online book by J. Lienhard
- On Being a Scientist, a free online book about responsible conduct in research
- David Goodstein's Chapter 3 on How Science Works from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
- Britney Spears' guide to semiconductor physics
- Ernesto Illy on the science of coffee (PDF)
- The Stanford 2D Semiconductor Transistor Benchmarking website
- David Tomanek's nanotube site and Shigeo Maruyama's nanotube site
- IRDS, the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems
- MIT "Well-Tempered" bulk silicon nMOSFET page (backup page)
- MOSIS, a low-volume intergrated circuit fabrication service
- NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook
- Library of Green's Functions
- Physical properties of silicon, GaN, BN, and many other semiconductors from the Ioffe Institute
- Universal physical constants from NIST (and ASCII-only list)
- General Chemistry by Petrucci et al. (from LibreTexts)
- Kaye & Laby Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants
- Handbook of Carbon, Graphite, Diamond and Fullerenes (Pierson, 1993)
- An interactive periodic table and another periodic table with very detailed elemental data
- Touloukian's Thermophysical Properties of Matter (1970), courtesy of DTIC
- Vol 1, Thermal Conductivity of Metallic Elements & Alloys (58 Mb)
- Vol 2, Thermal Conductivity of Nonmetallic Solids (87 Mb)
- Vol 4, Specific Heat of Metallic Elements & Alloys (53 Mb)
- Vol 5, Specific Heat of Nonmetallic Solids (87 Mb)
- Ho, Powell, Liley, Thermal Conductivity of the Elements, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 1, 279-421 (1972)
- Powell, Ho, Liley, Thermal Conductivity of Selected Materials, Part 1, NSRDS (1966)
- Ho, Powell, Liley, Thermal Conductivity of Selected Materials, Part 2, NSRDS (1968)
Research, Writing, Figures, and Presentations:
- Rob Candler's paper on Stuff Most Students Never Ask about Grad School (IEEE)
- General grad school, writing, and publishing advice from Jack Baker (Stanford CEE)
- Stephen Secules on How to Be a Grad Student and Christos Kozyrakis on How to Be a Bad Grad Student
- Related advice on "how to have a bad career in research/academia" by David Patterson
- "So Long, and Thanks for the PhD!", everything you wanted to know about grad school but were afraid to ask
- HHMI's excellent lab management guide and similar advice from AAAS/Science
- A guide to early-career researchers from Elsevier
- Tomorrow's Professor, a book about preparing for an academic career (R. Reis, 1997)
- How to choose a good scientific problem (U. Alon) and how to pick good problems (S. Senturia)
- P. Kamat's website on grad research, publishing, and graphics
- Nature's one-page annotated guide to writing an abstract (PDF)
- Nature guides to publish like a pro and writing a first-class paper
- ACS virtual issue on the Art of Scientific Publication, Part 1 and Part 2
- Advice on writing papers from P. Kamat, S. Senturia, and G. Whitesides
- More scientific writing advice, a guide from SciDev and another from Nature Physics
- How to love writing a paper, tell a story, and avoid hype
- Advice for making figures from M. Rolandi and ten rules for better figures
- Improving Matlab figures, more Matlab figure advice and yet more, plus the PlotPub library
- Making figures, PDFs, and presentations accessible to color blind people
- Nature guide to journal article peer review and several more articles about it
- Rethinking the design of presentation slides
- Rethinking the design of scientific posters and more thoughts about this
- Tips from blogs: Getting Things Done, Academic Lifehacker
- Milestones in the history of data visualization
Software:
- Wolfram's online integrator
- ViennaSHE, a free semiconductor device simulator from TU Wien
- Open-source programs for extracting data from graphs: Engauge Digitizer and g3data
- Raman peak fitting with Fityk (GUI-based) and Peakfit.m (for Matlab/Octave)
- Online spreading resistance calculators at Univ. Waterloo
- LASI and LayoutEditor are integrated circuit layout editors (both free)
- LAMMPS and VMD, free software for Molecular Dynamics simulations
updated Mar 2023