Thermally Driven Exponential Resistivity in Germanium

Did that title get your attention? No, I am not back in school (thank God!). Instead, a friend of mine just pointed me to this HILARIOUS website at the University of Wisconsin with a lab report from some undergrad trying to replicate the findings whatever giant in the field determined the title to this post. However, he seems to have had some problems. I think most of us who have any technical background in college at all will empathize with him. Certain lab experiments from my “Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials” class were sadly very, very similar to this. Of course, I never had the balls to write a “true” lab report on the web like this guy did… And of course, we didn’t really have the “web” then. That didn’t come out until grad school… And given that my prof for that electronic materials class was the #1 faculty web guru, I STILL wouldn’t have written it… but you get the picture. Anyway, kudos to this kid. Welcome to the real world. 🙂