Dear Professor ####:
I am very sorry to bother you and send this e-mail, but I really wish to
contact you. I am a graduate student majoring in Condensed Matter Physics T
heory in the Department of Physics, Beijing University (Beijing). I wish to
pursue a doctoral degree in Physics at your University. My desired date of e
ntrance is Fall, 2000. I have visited the homepage of the "Laboratory for Na
notech". I am writing this letter to you to introduce myself and query about
the graduate programs at NCCNM. Thank you very much for reading this email.
Born on SEP 10, 1979, I entered Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology
(HUST) when I was 15 years old. I finished the four-year undergraduate prog
ram in three years and achieved my degree of B. Eng. (Optoelectronic Enginee
ring) in June 1997 with the honor of "Outstanding Graduate". Then, I was adm
itted to the Graduate School of Beijing University at the Department of Phys
ics. I will obtain my degree of M. S. (Physics) in June 2000. I have done mu
ch research work on the topics of mesoscopic physics, such as carbon nanotub
es, persistent currents, Aharonov-Bohm geometric phase effects, electronic t
ransport phenomena, etc. Such modern research topics attract me very much in
that they are associated with both Condensed-Matter Physics and microelectr
onics, respectively my detail majors for M. S. and B. Eng.
I wish to say that I am indeed interested in the graduate programs at Ph
ysics Dept. of Princeton University, and I eagerly wish that I can join your
research group. As I have also strong research interests on carbon nanotube
s, I do believe that the doctorate-oriented study under your direction will
be of great help to me. I wonder, however, whether you do theoretical or exp
erimental research works? I wish to state that, although my current research
topics on carbon nanotubes are theoretical, I can also do experimental rese
arch works, especially optical studies, due to my undergraduate major in Opt
ics. I hope my solid background in both physics and engineering can meet you
r general requirements of entrance to Physics Department as a graduate with
financial supports. I deem it a great honor to become a graduate of Princeto
n, if admitted.
Would you please consider my application and tell me whether it is possi
ble for me to be enrolled as your graduate with financial supports? Thank yo
u very much for your kind assistance. I am looking forward to receiving your
reply.
My current address is:
#######
Building 38-201
Beijing University
Beijing 100080
People's Republic of China
Thanks!
Yours Sincerel
y
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（1B）
Dear ######:
Thank you for the email and your interest in our research program.
I am very intersted in your application and would like to hear more. Are
you interested in Fall 2000 or fall 2001? Certianly for 2001 there should b
e no problem getting research support, provided that your test scores, grade
s, etc. are acceptable to the university. For 2000, it would be a little tou
gher because of the short notice, but might be arranged under special circum
stances.
You asked about the nature of research here. In the laboratory, students
generally couple calculations with experiment. We specialize in spectroscop
ic determinations of transport and electronic structure using scanning probe
s (STM and NSOM). To gain a detailed understanding of this, ab initio calcul
ations must be compared with data. We have worked closely with J-C Charlier
in Belgium, A. Rubio in Spain, and X. Blase in France using a variety of the
oretical techniques including tight binding for structural information and L
DA of DFT for electronics calcs.
Our tunneling microscope is a low temperature Besoke design copied from
the Julich group. We are capable of running at LHe temperatures for good ene
rgy resolution. We are in the process of constructing a near-field scanning
optical microscope and a photon scanning tunneling microscope. These two new
instruments should be on line around Dec.
Our group focus is to understand the quantum dynamics and optical respon
se of individual nano-systems like carbon nanotubes, B-doped nanotubes and f
illed nanotubes. Look for our latest publications coming out in the next mon
ths in PRL, JMR, and Advanced Materials. The entire group will also be at th
e MRS meeting in Boston.
We would be pleased to consider your application for this year or next.
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Professor of Physics
Princeton University
（2A）
Dear Professor #######:
Thank you very much for your kind reply. I am sorry that during the summ
er vacation I cannot read and reply your email in time.
As stated in my first letter, my desired entrance date is in Fall of 200
0. And I would like to provide my test scores. My TOEFL test score is 647 (O
ct. 1997) with a TWE score of 5.0. My GRE test score is 2340 (Oct. 1996, V77
0 M800 A770). My GRE Subject score is 920 (Oct. 1998, Physics). And I will t
ake the TSE test in the coming August. And my undergraduate and graduate GPA
are both about 3.5 in 4.0, about top 10%-20% in my class.
I wish to make a note that during my undergraduate study I was quite you
ng, and during my graduate study I take many efforts to study the basic cour
ses in Physics by myself, which may be the reason my GPAs are not in the top
5%. But now I believe that I have been quite familiar in the knowledges of
Physics, both the courses and the researches. So I hope that my test scores
and grades are acceptable to Priceton with financial supports.
As to the research, I am very glad to learn the research background you
provided in your letter. I am quite familiar with the works of X. Blase publ
ished in PRL and APL. I also know that J-C Charlier is a famous specialist i
n this field. So perhaps I could do theoretical research works in your group
. Also, I am very glad to know that you have the needed main instruments for
carbon nanotubes in your group, so that both theoretical and experimental w
orks can be done.
I am puzzled at the "MRS meeting in Boston" you mentioned in your letter
. What is the full-name of MRS? Is it a meeting specialized in nano-systems?
I do research works on carbon nanotubes almost totally by myself, and perha
ps are not familiar with such fixed terms. Would you please explain the cont
ents of this meeting? Thanks. And you mentioned that your latest publication
s will come out in next months in PRL. Would you please send me the page num
ber of this paper in PRL, and if possible, the full text of this paper? The
journal PRL reaches to China very late, usually several months to half a yea
r after published, and I don't have the account to find the full-texts of PR
L on-line.
I am looking forward to receiving your warmhearted reply.
Thanks.
Yours sincer
ely
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（2B）
Dear #######:
Thank you again for your email. From the sounds of your scores and grade
s, you should have no problem entering Princeton. I am quite familiar with t
he program that you are in and have had several close friends that have been
there at Beijing University. In fact, ####### was in graduate school with m
e and she was in the accelerated program. She has done extremely well in the
U.S. and after graduation went on to do some first rate science at a univer
sity in California.
Since 2001 is your target date, I can begin to arrange funding for a res
earch assistantship for you. These are nicer than teaching assistantships be
cause they allow you to focus only on your research. Naturally, you will not
be obligated to accept should you find other options. However, I believe th
at you will be most welcomed here in my group.
You had asked about some of my publications, if you send me your address
I can send preprints. They may take some time to get to China. You can find
some of our work listed on our web site under my cv. This is an incomplete
list but the PRL of last year is there and the latest hasnt yet been release
d from the publishers.
We have been doing some interesting things lately with topological defec
ts on tube manifolds that you might like. We have recently imaged nanotubes
which exhibit a change in chirality along the tube! Tunneling spectra show t
hat this produces subtle changes in the LDOS as predicted in some of X. Blas
e's work. We have also begun optical studies on individual nanotubes using n
ear-field scanning optical microscopy and spectroscopy. We are particualry i
nterested in how the surface plasmon resonances (governed by tube topology)
effects the third order nonlinear susceptability in these objects.
Thank you again for your interest in our group. May I suggest that we ke
ep in contact over the year. Let me know your progress and I will try to hel
p with the application procedures should you decide to join us.
Sincerely
Dave Carroll
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