Revolutions made in Lund

Completely out of context: Our most recent lecture hall.
Once again it feels like Hogwarts ... Life is good!

As far as I know if you try to patent something and it was mentioned somewhere before the patent will most likely not be granted. I do not know if you can do any harm by unofficially publishing scientific results as well so I prefer to be careful. ;) Today our professor opened the lecture by showing us data which might be world record in electronics. The results are from yesterday so he was quite excited. Of course the results have to be further investigated but they look very promising so far! Professorquote: "World records are always fun!" I agree. ;)

The rest of the lecture was about toxic gases in WW I. No, wait. Not completely. But in one of the methods to fabricate semiconductor monolayers AsH_3 is used. This was indeed used as a toxic gas in WW I. Which is why they do not use this method in America due to administrative approval problems. Instead they prefer a method which is a few million (probably ;) ) dollars more expensive. I expected that in a country where children chocolate eggs are forbidden in favour of machine guns a toxic gas in science would be something to cheerfully approve ... Summarising comment of a class mate: "Crazy people ..."

Still after the toxic gases the professor drew some "funky quantum wells" (his expression ...) on the board. By combinig different materials it is possible to form the weirdest band structures. As he said: "I do not know what this might be good for but it is possible." Well ok then, it is always better to ask "Why not?" than "Why?" in research. Although while still studying it is more the latter that you ask ... Quite desperately sometimes. ;)