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Has anyone checked out this paper? http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2962 This came after the original post, I think.

I may have and idea, but no guarantees. I'm not exactly sure what you are doing, but like you, in my experience, gold won't stick to silicon. I'm not doing anything with optics, so we found that if we replace the target in our magnetron sputtering with copper (basically a piece of sheet metal...

Well I'm not entirely sure what I want to go into. At the moment I'm interested in experimental particle and atomic physics.

Hi I am in my third year undergrad, and am planning to study physics in graduate school. I was wondering if anyone knows what sort of math graduate schools expect and or want incoming students to have? Mostly, I mean besides Calculus, vector calculus, linear algebra, and Differential...