====== Must-Read-Papers ======
Sometimes there are papers that everyone should read, or at least those interested in a particular topic.  Help your research colleagues by pointing them to good texts, good reviews, classics in our research area, etc.  Be helpful about why.  If papers are in the general literature, point to weblinks via OSU library.  River has done this on the Thermal conductivity page, so go there to see how, if you're the first to enter.   When you enter new papers, please list author, date (yyyy-mo-day), and title and  a brief note about content. 

|^Date^Author^Title^Notes|
|2010-ish|McIntyre R,T,T/(1-R)|{{:mustread:mcintyre_thin_film_interference_t_1-r_.ppt|}}|Comprehensive discussion of thin-film interference|
|1997,2000|Omega Technical Reference|{{:mustread:omega_techref_temperature_measurement_-_z019-020.pdf|Practical Temperature Measurements}}|Comprehensive discussion of thermocouples, resistive temperature devices, principles of measurement, etc|
|Progress in Inorganic Chemistry 41, 21 (1994)|Tan, ... N. Lewis|{{:mustread:prog_inor._chem_1994_lewis_tan_review.pdf|Principles and applications of semiconductor photoelectrochemistry}}|Review |
|JJAP 30, 1008 (1991)|Hishikawa //et al.//|{{:mustread:t:1-r_jjap-30-1008.pdf|Optical Absorption Coefficients of amorphous Si}}|T/(1-R) derivation |
|J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 16, 1214 (1983)|Swanepoel |[[http://iopscience.iop.org/0022-3735/16/12/023|Optical Absorption Coefficients of amorphous Si]]|Model thin-film interference |
|MRS Bulletin 25(8), (2000)|Many |[[http://mrs.org/bulletin|MRS Bulletin]] (but need subscription for some pubs). Also see science server Literature/MRS Bull Aug 2000|Transparent Conducting Oxides special edition|
|MRS Bulletin, (2006)|Tritt/Subramanian |{{:mustread:tritt:subramnian_mrsbull_2006_march06.intro_-_f08_mrs.pdf|Thermoelectrics:A birds-eye view}}|TE special edition|
|IRE, (1954)|L.B. Valdes |{{:mustread:Valdes_Resistivity.pdf|Resistivity Measurements on Germanium for Transistors}}|4 Probe resistivity basics|
|2020|Jeffrey Lindemuth |[[http://blog.lakeshore.com/new-resource-available-for-download-hall-effect-measurement-handbook|Hall Measurement Handbook]] (or ask Janet for a copy)|Hall measurement basics; really helpful|


====== Useful compilations ======

|^Date^Author^Title^Notes|
|JAP 48, 4729 (1977)|H.B. Michaelson|[[http://jap.aip.org/resource/1/japiau/v48/i11/p4729_s1|The work function of the elements and its periodicity]]|A compilation of work functions. Table, graphs, trends.|
|-|-|[[http://abulafia.mt.ic.ac.uk/shannon/ptable.php|Ionic radii]]|Shannon ionic radii, conveniently tabulated by ion, coordination number, charge etc., data from //Revised Effective Ionic Radii and Systematic Studies of Interatomic Distances in Halides and Chalcogenides//" R. D. Shannon, Acta Crystallographica A32, 751 (1976)|
|Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 2, 163 (1973)|W. H. Strehlow and E. L. Cook|{{:mustread:strehlow_jphyschemrefdata2_1973_163_bandgap_semi_ins_compilation.pdf|Compilation of Energy Band Gaps in Elemental and Binary Compound Semiconductors and Insulators}}|Compilation of 723 band gaps of semicond. & insulators.  Direct/indirect, color, temp dependence. Available at NIST reprint site.|
|-|-|[[opticalspectrometers:start|Refs to optical data compilations]]|Optical data (refractive index etc., listed on optical spectrometer page.|
|Chem. Mater., 2013, 25 (15), pp 2911–2920|M.W. Gaultois et al.|[[http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.1021/cm400893e|Data-Driven Review of Thermoelectric Materials: Performance and Resource Considerations]]| See also [[http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu:8080/datamine/thermoelectric.jsp|UCSB database direct link]].|
|Fundamental Constants 2014|B.N. Taylor and P. J. Mohr, NIST|[[http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/|CODATA Fundamnetal Constants]]|CODATA Internationally recommended values of the fundamental physical constants|