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/qt9m...
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:
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