by Brian Clegg
lithography 1
electron beam lithography 1
Lonsdale, Kathleen 1
M
magnets
diamagnetism 1 , 2 , 3
diamagnetic material 1
diamagnetic objects 1
electromagnetic radiation 1
electromagnetism 1
electric fields 1
magnetic fields 1
variable magnetic fields 1
magnetic levitation
in trains 1 , 2
in frogs 1
in hamster 1
magnetic susceptibility 1
magnetic topological insulator 1
transcranial magnetic stimulation 1
Maiman, Theodore
first laser 1 §
Manchester University 1 , 2
physics building 1
National Graphene Institute 1
Sir Henry Royce Institute for
Advanced Materials Research 1
Marsden, Ernest 1
Matzinger, Polly 1 ††
Maxwell, James Clerk 1
equations for electromagnetism 1 , 2 , 3
Maxwell’s demon 1 §
Mendeleev, Dimitri 1
metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor see MOSFET
microscopes
scanning electron microscope 1
scanning tunnelling microscope 1 , 2
transmission electron microscope 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1
molybdenum disulphide 1
applications 1
combined with graphene 1 , 2
light-emitting capability 1
potential of 1
thickness compared to graphene 1
transition metal 1
water filtration 1
Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute 1
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (PhysTech) 1
MOSFET (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor) 1
N
Nair, Rahul 1
National Graphene Institute 1
Nature 1
Newton, Isaac 1 , 2
concept of attraction 1
first law of motion 1 , 2
theory of gravity 1
Nobel Prize in Physics 1 , 2
Novoselov, Konstantin (Kostya)
approach to experiments 1
early life and education 1
‘Friday night experiments’ 1 , 2
National Graphene Institute 1
Nobel Prize awarded 1
Nobel prize work 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
paper on graphene 1
significance of work 1
substrates to support graphene, first uses 1 , 2
sticky tape 1
supervised by Geim on PhD 1
transmission electron
microscopes, work on 1
O
Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh 1 , 2
P
patents 1
Pauli exclusion principle 1
Physica B: Condensed Matter 1
Planck, Max 1 , 2
Planck’s constant h 1
Plunkett, Roy 1
polymethyl methacrylate 1
polytetraflouroethylene (PTFE) 1
positron 1
printable inks 1 , 2
Q
quantum physics
anomalous quantum Hall effect 1 , 2
matrix mechanics 1
movement of quantum particles 1
quantum, definition 1
quantum computing 1
quantum Hall effect 1
quantum leap 1 , 2
quantum tunnelling 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
spin 1
probability 1
R
resistors 1
reverse osmosis 1
Röntgen, William 1
Röntgen rays 1
Rutgers University 1
Rutherford, Ernest 1 ¶
alpha and beta rays/particles 1 , 2
influence on Bohr 1
S
Schrödinger equation 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Science 1
Scotch tape 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
Shklyarevskii, Oleg 1
Shockley, William 1
Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Research 1
Sochi 1
solar system atomic model 1 , 2 ††
spintronics 1
logic circuits 1
Stanford University 1 , 2
substrates 1 , 2
copper substrate 1
cotton fibres as 1
graphene tattoos 1
polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) 1
Sumner, James 1
Sun
production of energy 1
Sussex touch screen 1
switches
logic gates 1
T
Tefal 1
Teflon 1
Thomson, J.J.
discoverer of electron 1
plum pudding model 1 , 2
Tisha see hamster
transistors 1 , 2
amplifier mode 1
field effect transistor 1 , 2
graphene-based transistors 1
molybdenum disulphide use 1
Tsinghua University 1 , 2
tungsten disulphide 1
Turing, Alan 1
U
University of Arkansas 1
University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering 1
University of Sussex
Sussex screen 1
University of Waterloo
supercapacitors, work on 1 , 2
V
van der Waals, Johannes
van der Waals force 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Vijayaraghavan, Aravind 1
W
Werner, Abraham 1
Wheeler, John 1 ††
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian Clegg’s most recent books are The Reality Frame (Icon, 2017) and Are Numbers Real? (St Martin’s Press, 2017); he has also written Gravitational Waves and Big Data in the Hot Science series. His Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Brian has written for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, BBC Focus, Physics World, The Times, The Observer, Good Housekeeping and Playboy. He is the editor of popularscience.co.uk and blogs at brianclegg.blogspot.com .
www.brianclegg.net
Other Hot Science titles available from Icon Books
Destination Mars: The Story of Our Quest
to Conquer the Red Planet
Big Data:
How the Information Revolution
is Transforming Our Lives
Gravitational Waves:
How Einstein’s Spacetime Ripples
Reveal the Secrets of the Universe
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