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SUMMARY:The Electrons in Your Pencil: Observations of a Carbon Flatland
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Michael Crommie\, University of California at Berkele
	y\nHosted by: Rama Bansil\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/posters/2010_Fall/
	07_Crommie.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nABSTR
	ACT:  Carbon is unique among elements due to the wide variety of structures
	 that it can support.  This property has long provided a playground for che
	mists and biologists\, but it is only relatively recently that physicists h
	ave discovered what a flexible material carbon is for creating nanostructur
	es with quantum mechanical behavior unlike any other substance.  It is iron
	ic that the most recent big breakthrough in the study of carbon-based mater
	ials has come from isolating the particulate matter of pencil scratchings\,
	 now called graphene.  The irony is that from such mundane origins comes su
	ch a surprisingly interesting material.  In this talk I will provide a term
	ite's view of graphene\, and describe some of the phenomena that you would 
	see if you could shrink yourself down to the size of an atom and jump into 
	a graphene flatland.  The tool that gives us this view is the scanning tunn
	eling microscope (STM).  I will describe how the STM gives us new insight i
	nto the unusual ways that electrons move in pieces of graphene that have be
	en structured at the nanometer scale.
LOCATION:SCI 107\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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