• IDEA Team topical cohort meeting

    Hi, all!

    It’s been a bit quiet on the IDEA front this term, but the entire network went through some revamping, and new online cohorts were set up.  We’re now part of a group whose focus is ‘Navigating Burnout’.  The first big meeting of the entire cohort will be tomorrow, Tuesday the 28th, at 1 pm.  It will be on zoom, so you can simply log on from anywhere.  (in case you need it, the passcode is aps-idea).  If you’ve been waiting on IDEA to get going again, or if you’re interested in checking things out for the first time, please join us!

  • Physics Table

    Bring your lunch to the Ground State tomorrow (Tuesday) at noon.  Come eat and be social!

  • Visiting professor candidate talk

    We’ve got another candidate doing a virtual visit this week, on Thursday.  The part we’d like students to play, is to come to AND 036 at noon to listen to their research talk.  We will provide lunch to everyone who attends.  After the talk, there will be a few minutes to ask questions about their research or just about them so you can get a feel for what it might be like to take a class from them.  We’ll ask attendees to fill out a short evaluation (either on paper or online).

    Please come join us for lunch and enlightenment!

  • Interested in working during spring term?

    Trenne sent out a form last week, but here’s another chance to fill it out.  If you’re interested in working for the department during spring term, make sure you fill out the interest form ASAP.  We take as many folks as we can, but assign jobs and take requests on a first-come, first-served basis.  Please make sure you follow the directions and fill out each section.

  • Upcoming comps presentations

    Elise Knutsen

    Monday, March 6 2023

    8:30 am in Olin 141

     Solid State Drives

    With the increasing reliance on cloud-based data storage centers and high-capacity storage in mobile devices, the ability to store large amounts of data reliably and efficiently has become more important. Modern solid state drives (SDDs) utilize NAND flash based technology to create non-volatile electrically programmable storage. The quick read and write times, reduced price, and increased reliability of NAND flash-based SSDs has contributed to their rise as a substitute for hard disk drives (HDDs).  NAND flash SDDs use floating gate metal oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs) that are programmed through hot electron injection and Fowler Nordheim tunneling. Many shortcomings of SSDs, such as limited program/erase cycles and material

    degradation, have been improved through both updating software and hardware.  With the advent of 3D NAND charge trapping, SSD memory is able to store data more densely and reliably than 2D alternatives.

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