In a project investigating the challenges facing the scientific community, I am asking researchers to consider what is the greatest problem facing their field at this time, and formulate a question.
The result is to be a series of multi-authored papers like: Light, the universe and everything – 12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers, which addressed chellenges facing quantum optics.
An earlier publication presented a personal selection of questions in fundamental physics, written with Roland E Allen, and a colleague, Alan Coley, has written on Open problems in mathematical phycics.
Questions are sought across the sciences and can include broader matters such as "What question would you like to see resolved in your lifetime?"
The paper currently reaching finalisation is on quantum and mesoscopic physics.
Dear Suzy,
The question that I have on my table is how could transform thermal energy in electromagnetic one in an efficient form. The highest dimensionless figure of merit for thermoelectrics is around 2.4 but for being really efficient we would reach at least a value of 4,i.e. more or less the double.
Dear Suzy
since 2002 I am working on thermal and structure properties of nanoscaled solids as a group working. But at the time my interest is to work out how thermal properties particularly thermal conductivity act in a sandwiched films in a nanosize scale for the reason of applications on nano devise
in this scale all physical as well as structure and machnical properties are different from that of the bulk solids
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