Self-study material-Noise Modeling and a Case Study

The wikipedia page on Johnsson-Nyquist noise Links to an external site. gives some explanation and explains the relations to black-body radiation, described by Planck.

The wikipedia page on Shot Noise Links to an external site.

Johnsson's noise paper from 1928 Links to an external site.

Nyquist paper from 1928  give some additional intuitition to the $4k_BRTB$ formula. Download Nyquist paper from 1928  give some additional intuitition to the formula.

Nyquist's formula is essentially the same as that derived by Planck in 1901 for electromagnetic radiation of a blackbody in one dimension—i.e., it is the one-dimensional version of Planck's law of blackbody radiation Links to an external site..^{[8] Links to an external site.} In other words, a hot resistor will create electromagnetic waves on a transmission line Links to an external site. just as a hot object will create electromagnetic waves in free space.

 

MEMS, Atomic Force Microscopy and such stuff

Feynman's "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics"  Links to an external site.

Feynman's lecture in paper form Download Feynman's lecture in paper form

Feynman's lecture on youtube: Link Links to an external site.

 

Some short videos about AFM

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Here is an elementary explanation of how typical cheap MEMS accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer work today.

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