Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

I'll repeat the same comment I made to the same article when it posted here about a year ago:

As an odd coincidence, I did the same experiment on a shoestring budget with substandard equipment also. I too used a fancy computer algorithm to get a best fit. Except that I managed to get four significant decimal places in the result — an improvement over the (also outdated) textbook.

The author of the angry rant had a life-defining experience of overwhelming frustration.

The same scenario resulted in a positive life-defining experience for me

It’s funny how unpredictably things pan out even in identical circumstances…

Brilliant man.

This should be a reminder that more than you would expect, "the results didn't replicate" is really a statement of how difficult science is to do well.

Before we had silicon based semiconductord we had germanium based semiconductors. I wonder if we can build chips using germanium. If yes, how would they compare with silicon made chips?

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I also regret studying physics, lol, although in my case I thought fiddling with algebra would be the best job ever, until I got bored of using my mind as a compiler.