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That’s right. Many an undergraduate in need of a valence review for quantum mechanics has turned to the pop princess’ online study aid: Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics (http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm). The website, which was written and designed by Carl Hepburn, a post-graduate physics major at the University of Essex, UK, has been around for two years, since Hepburn celebrated his admiration by placing the famous pop star amidst descriptions of valence and conduction bands...
...about one one-hundred-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. In common usage, it refers to an array of new machines and materials whose key parts are smaller than 100 nanometers and to the new tools, such as Veeco Instruments' atomic-force microscopes and Nanometrics' inspection tools for semiconductor makers, that allow the tiny parts and particles to be observed and manipulated. It is a mysterious realm in which the laws of classical physics yield to those of quantum mechanics, in which the powerful bonds between atoms overtake the effects of gravity that rule the big world. Yet scientists...
...ideas are taking root worldwide. BASF Corp.'s carpet-fiber unit has developed a recyclable nylon that makes it possible to reconstitute old carpets into new. Swiss semiconductor maker ST Microelectronics has saved more than $60 million by cutting its energy usage and more than $20 million by reducing water consumption below baselines set in 1994--a program initiated after CEO Pasquale Pistorio's son Carmelo questioned his father's environmental stewardship. The company issued a "decalogue"--or 10 commandments--of environmental goals and empowered its divisions to become creative. The responses include using solar power and finding ways...
...have very little debt," notes Steven Schoenfeld, head of international equities at Barclay's Global Investors. Some of the best values are in Taiwan. Aquico Wen, portfolio manager at Citigroup Asset Management, especially likes the nation's fast-growing electronics industry, which includes world-class outsourcers like Taiwan Semiconductor and United Microelectronics. Two good Asian funds are Eaton Vance Asia Small Company and Matthews Asia Growth and Income...
...people would like to. Thanks to advancing computer technology and falling semiconductor prices, companies are starting to dream they might be able to make money selling robots to the masses. In addition to Honda's experimental program, Japanese electronics giants Sony, Matsushita and Sanyo are all developing "personal robots" they hope will some day become as ubiquitous as televisions and at least as companionable as accountants. Sony engineers say the business stands where the personal computer industry stood in the early 1980s, when many doubted whether desktop machines would ever be more than expensive playthings. "PCs are a pretty good...