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Charles Stafford
Physics professor Charles Stafford poses for a picture in front of an equation that "sets up the principles to define a temperature of something that is in a very extreme state" in his office in the Physics and Atmospheric Sciences building on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2016. (Photo: Rebecca Noble).

Researchers at UA improve temperature measurement, by Nicole Morin (Arizona Daily Wildcat, January 13, 2017)

The Hidden Inferno Inside Your Laser Pointer, by Daniel Stolte (UANews.org, December 22, 2016)

TEDx Talk, "Using nanotechnology to convert waste heat into electricity," TEDx Tucson Salon, It's Electric (May 12, 2015)

Hot Spots, Cold Spots: When Temperature Goes Quantum, by Daniel Stolte (UANews.org, March 5, 2015)

Chasing Demons with a Microscope, by Daniel Stolte (UANews.org, May 21, 2013)

Capturing Wasted Heat Energy, Arizona Technology and Innovation (video), (Arizona PBS, November 9, 2010)

Turning Waste Heat Into Power, by Daniel Stolte (UANews.org, September 23, 2010)

Transistor team seeks specialist skills, by James Tyrrell (nanotechweb.org, September 27, 2007)

Using quantum mechanics to turn molecules into transistors, by Michael Berger (Nanowerk Spotlight, September 25, 2007)

UA scientists turn molecules into transistors, by Jeffrey Javier (Arizona Daily Wildcat, May 2, 2007)

Molecular transistors based on quantum interference, SPIE Newsroom (2007).

UA find may lead to pin-sized computers, by Paul Allen (Tucson Citizen, September 28, 2006)

New tech for old transistor, by T.V. Jayan (The Telegraph, Calcutta, India, September 18, 2006)

Quantum effect offers molecular transistors, by Justin Mullins (New Scientist, September 8, 2006)

UA Physicists Invent 'QuIET' Single Molecule Transistors, by Lori Stiles (UA News, July 31, 2006)

UA Physicists Find Key to Long-Lived Metal Nanowires, by Lori Stiles (UA News, August 23, 2005); reprinted in Chemie.DE News-Center

Honey, I Shrunk the PC, by Mark Anderson (Wired, June 9, 2005)

New look for molecular transistors, by Dr. Isabelle Dumé (PhysicsWeb, March 31, 2005)

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