Episode 5 – Old News

In Episode 5 – Old News, we discuss “space” tourism balloons (Hindenburg), photonic crystals applied to photovoltaic solar cells, and million year data storage in fancy Q-R codes (iPods for immortal elves?). 2:30 we “jump right into it” (after a few minutes of chatter…) with the New York Times’ Article: “Balloon Ride to Offer Expansive View, for a Price” 4:45 this digresses into a discussion of my and chase’s senior design project… designing a variable-lift dirigible. 12:45 some Hindenburg talk! 13:45 Helium has some sustainability concerns. 22:15 we call greg to join us in discussing “ High Temperature Stability in 3D Photonic Crystals Could Advance Solar Thermophotovoltaic Approach ” (the paper is HERE ) 23:00 some complicated semiconductor physics talk (sorry!) 29:00 getting to what this research actually means, finally. 44:45 Remembering to give the authors credit 45:45 Greg is in a rush for this last story, Million Year Data Storage (with the free preprint paper HERE ) 49:45 I said it was like a record, which would be correct, if records were QR codes… 52:30 the Ahreneus Equation, used for aging, is explained! 54:15 Chase never used the Ahreneus equation at work? 58:00 iPods for elves. Intro: Open – Crying ( Get Olde ) Song 1: Where do they make balloons? (They Might Be Giants- No!) song 2: Love like a sunset (part II) (Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix) Outro: Dreams are Maps – The Wild ( Dreams are Maps )

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Episode 5 – Old News is an episode from LASER: Materials Science Podcast by LASER: Materials Science Podcast.

This episode is 1:07:06 long.

This episode was published on Nov 20, 2013.

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