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October 1980
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Letters
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Articles
Toward better acoustics for concert halls
Physics Today 33 (10), 24–30 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913787
Full reverberation and good spectral balance are important, but recent experiments point also to the need for directional balance—“enveloping” the listener with sound.
Biological membranes
Physics Today 33 (10), 32–38 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913788
Living cells contain the ultimate in microelectronics: lipid bilayers carrying complex enzyme systems to perform sophisticated electronic and chemical functions
Hot electrons in layered semiconductors
Physics Today 33 (10), 40–47 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913789
The size of semiconductor devices has decreased so much that classical treatments of semiconductor physics become invalid and effects involving supra‐thermal electrons take on a new importance
State and Society
Meetings
Plasma Physics Division meets in San Diego
Physics Today 33 (10), 55–57 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913793
Topics will include stellarators, tokamaks, space plasmas, inertially confined fusion, mirrors and general plasma physics
Books
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Editorial
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor