Graphene’s cousin silicene makes transistor debut

Open Payments Program (aka the Sunshine Act) makes public debut.

W ith government funding for bio-medical research stagnant or declining, scientists rely more than ever on industry support. Yet although that support is indispensible, it poses delicate challenges: Scientists and doctors are sometimes tempted to decide what's best for a sponsoring company rather than for patients. These conflicts of interest have sparked growing calls for transparency into ind...

Cousin Marriage

It is a great honour to be invited to contribute a lecture to this long-established series* founded to commemorate a very eminent physician of the Bristol Medical School an a member of a family distinguished for services to medicine and to the City over man/ years. I have also seen with particular pleasure that the first Long Fox lecture ^ given by John Beddoe, a pioneer of British anthropology...

Electrical transport model of Silicene as a channel of field effect transistor.

The analytical electrical transport model of the Silicene, a single layer of sp3 bonded silicon atoms in the honeycomb lattice structure as a channel in the field effect transistor configuration is presented in this paper. Although the carrier concentration of the Silicene shows similar behavior to Graphene, there are some differences in the conductance behavior. Presented model shows increment...

Gravity’s Scalar Cousin

The “dilaton”, the Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken conformal field theories (in flat spacetime), is argued to provide a surprisingly provocative scalar analog of gravity. Many precise parallels and contrasts are drawn. In particular, the Equivalence Principle, the Cosmological Constant Problem, and the tension between them is shown to be closely replicated. Also, there is a striking tra...

Graphene and Cousin Systems