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Physics Today 51 (7), 9 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805868

Letters

Physics Today 51 (7), 11–13 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882319
Physics Today 51 (7), 13 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882320
Physics Today 51 (7), 13–15 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882321
Physics Today 51 (7), 15–92 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882322
Physics Today 51 (7), 92 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882313
Physics Today 51 (7), 92–94 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882314
Physics Today 51 (7), 94 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882315
Physics Today 51 (7), 94–96 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882332
Physics Today 51 (7), 96 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805882
Physics Today 51 (7), 96 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882316

Search and Discovery

Physics Today 51 (7), 17–19 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882323

Magma flowing upward to form fresh crust along the axis of plate spreading does not appear to come exclusively from a narrow zone directly beneath the axis. Rather, molten material is distributed along the ridge in a region more than 100 km wide and over 100 km deep. Moreover, the melt zone is centered to one side of the axis—beneath the faster moving plate.

Physics Today 51 (7), 19–21 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805869

In a drive to help the US semiconductor industry, researchers are developing x‐ray spectrometers that will be able not just to identify any element in microscopic contaminants, but also to yield information about the element's chemical state.

Physics Today 51 (7), 19 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882331

Articles

Physics Today 51 (7), 22–27 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882324

The ability of ferroelectric materials to switch robustly from one polarization state to another forms the basis of a new thin film technology for storing data.

Physics Today 51 (7), 28–34 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882325

The demand for more sophisticated sensors and actuators in industrial equipment and consumer products is behind today's push for new transducer materials and geometries.

In Special Collection: Quantum archive
Physics Today 51 (7), 36–42 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882326

Schrodinger intended his gedanken experiment of a hapless cat mortally entangled with a quantum trigger as a reductio ad absurdum. But nowadays such experiments are being realized in laboratories—without offending the antivivisectionists

Meetings

Physics Today 51 (7), 43 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882317

Washington Reports

Physics Today 51 (7), 45–46 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882327
Physics Today 51 (7), 46–47 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882328
Physics Today 51 (7), 47–49 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882329
Physics Today 51 (7), 48 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805870
Physics Today 51 (7), 49–50 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805871

Physics Community

Physics Today 51 (7), 53–54 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882294
Physics Today 51 (7), 54–55 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882295
Physics Today 51 (7), 55 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882296
Physics Today 51 (7), 55 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882318
Physics Today 51 (7), 55–56 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882330
Physics Today 51 (7), 56 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805872

Opinion

Physics Today 51 (7), 58–59 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882297

Books

Physics Today 51 (7), 61–62 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882298
Physics Today 51 (7), 62–64 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882299
Physics Today 51 (7), 64–65 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882300
Physics Today 51 (7), 65–66 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882301
Physics Today 51 (7), 66–67 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882302
Physics Today 51 (7), 67–68 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882303
Physics Today 51 (7), 68–70 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882304
Physics Today 51 (7), 70–71 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882305
Physics Today 51 (7), 71–72 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882306
Physics Today 51 (7), 72–74 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805873
Physics Today 51 (7), 72 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882307

New Products

Physics Today 51 (7), 75–77 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805874

We Hear That

Physics Today 51 (7), 79 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805875
Physics Today 51 (7), 79 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805876
Physics Today 51 (7), 79–80 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805877
Physics Today 51 (7), 80 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805878
Physics Today 51 (7), 80–81 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805879
Physics Today 51 (7), 81 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882308

Obituaries

Physics Today 51 (7), 81–82 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805880
Physics Today 51 (7), 82–83 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882309
Physics Today 51 (7), 83–84 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882310
Physics Today 51 (7), 84–85 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882311
Physics Today 51 (7), 85 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882312

Calendar

Physics Today 51 (7), 87–91 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2805881
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