Almost a month being a doctor

Almost a month being a doctor

I'm coming a bit late with updating my status: PhD in Physics (wish it was an option to put it as my status on facebook!), since 29th of June. Below I post some images taken by my Mom.

Panic, panic on the train

With the tribunal.

In a way it's a great relief to manage to defend your thesis, after all the efforts, last-minute corrections and a few panic attacks.My thesis is in general about different electro-mechanical systems made of carbon nanotubes. Electro-mechanical means that the nanotube is set in motion by some kind of electrical stimulation. It can either vibrate like a guitar string (a mechanical resonator) or the electrical force can be used to transport a cargo along the nanotube (a motor). Both types of systems are very interesting, mainly because they behave different than they macro-scale counterparts.