Thread: APS March Meeting Conference 2009

Was it as boring as the women leadership conference?

Originally Posted by Nadia

Was it as boring as the women leadership conference?

No, it was fucking awesome.

Here are some more hot topics that have come to mind:

*Metamaterials with engineered structure on a sub-wavelength scale that can be used for aberration-free super-lensing (where sub-wavelength features can be distinguished) and cloaking

*Organic photovoltaics. They are far cheaper than amorphous silicon solar cells, though their efficiency is currently lower. Nonetheless, their incredibly low cost still make them useful in certain applications, and if their efficiency can be increased, they will drastically reduce the cost of solar cells. I thought I heard somewhere that organic photovoltaics could in theory have a much higher efficiency than amorphous silicon could achieve.