As I said before, last weekend was the camping trip to Zao (pronounced Zah Oh) with Kaz. Well I get up early on Saturday morning and head to the lab where Kaz and I plan on leaving from. When I get there I experience and earthquake, not a serious one, but enough to make things wobble a little and all that. It was a pretty neat experience ( Read more... )

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So. This past week was pretty good. I began my research for real and its pretty interesting stuff. Ill be working with organic field effect transistors and organic metal oxide field effect transistors. Ill be creating these devices to test the limits of electron mobility and other characteristics with different types of organic polymers. Since ( Read more... )

So. I had my first Japanese class today here in Sendai. It was a very very small (me and three girls, one is a married Indian girl and two are reasonably cute Chinese girls) class. What Iwasa-sensei neglected to tell me is that I was going to be entering a class that has already been going on for three months! Im so far behind these people, ( Read more... )

So I just arrived in Sendai. I was met by the grad student who ill be working with this summer. Hes working with single crystal FETs. Its not really that nanotech but its hardcore solid state and physical electronics, which is where Im headed (just smaller). I also met the Professor, who was very nice, and gave him a bottle of Wild Turkey as an

Kyoto city, second day (two weekends ago, wow Im behind ( Read more... )

Sorrrrrry. Its hard to find time to sit here and update this thing on a regular basis. So for anyone who really wants to hear about my travels on a more frequent basis email me at ccorbet@rice.edu ( Read more... )

Im going to Shinjuku today to buy a camera. I wont come back without one.

So I just found out that Ill be doing research on organic LEDs this summer. I have a feeling that will only really mean anything to Adam Blue and Tyler Barth. But for a quick idea of what the potential applications are think about computer screens that youll be able to roll up like a sheet of paper.

More on this AMAZING topic later.

There are about 130 million people in Japan. Japan is about the size of California. There are 33 million people in california. 70% of Japan is too forested and mountainous to be habitable for large populations. All of this leads to Japan having an incredibly high population density. There are 100 million more people here than in California. ( Read more... )