On Dec 4, 2001, I defended my PhD thesis `Carbon nanotube junctions and devices'. Check this list for your preferred file

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Hi there. Yes your browser is working correctly (if you're using Netscape, that is). Let me describe what you see. The large letters are written in something we like to refer to as gold electrodes. They are typically a few hundred nanometers wide and a couple of microns long. We use these electrodes to study electric transport properties of carbon nanotubes. These are long molecules and for artistic reasons often displayed as being blue. This is the funny long thing lying on the left hand side of the page. The all over picture is sth known as an atomic force micrograph. We obtain pictures like these by scanning a sharp tip over a surface and recording the height, much like a record player used to do ...

So what does it have to do with me ? Well, I'm involved in measurements on these molecules for the PhD work here at TUDelft in the Netherlands. I'm a member of the Molecular Biophysics group at the department of Applied Sciences. When not working on the fridge or AFM, I do other stuff, e.g. while listening to music (updated on July 21, 1999). Also have a look at some prime numbers. Also have a look at a nice mathematical fact: the ratio between consecutive Fibonacci numbers equals the golden ratio. When somebody told me this, I did a fast calculation, you can find the results here. It's not particularly esotheric or state of the art mathematics (freshmen level), but still a funny fact. Bye for now

The research I'm involved - and by definition interested - in is the electronic transport properties of Carbon Nanotubes. ( See also the layout of this page, made in an outburst of artistic ideas. Hard work getting all the pictures right and making it valid HTML 4.0 as well as CSS too ... ) An up to date overview of the recent Delft experiments on Carbon Nanotubes can be found at this page.