SUMMARY
Some news highlights include: a 100th birthday celebration for electronics; new techniques for preventing troublesome sticking of proteins to life-saving medical implants; an important advance in tri-color LEDs, which might eventually replace ordinary white lights as a dramatically more energy-efficient light source; a chemistry-based method of using existing and less-expensive semiconductor technology to make a crucial component for future-generation computer chips; insights on why complex "quasicrystals" have less friction than ordinary crystals; and a possible new world record for survival of living cells in a microscopic, underwater obstacle course.
HOW TO COVER THE MEETING
The AVS Symposium Web Pressroom (http://www2.avs.org/symposium/anaheim/pressroom.html) contains links to the meeting press releases, additional story tips, and detailed lay-language versions of selected papers. For even more detail, the AVS Symposium home page (http://www2.avs.org/symposium/anaheim/default.asp) contains links to the full program as well as other meeting information.
The AVS Pressroom will be located in Room 212A of the Anaheim Convention Center. The room will be open on Monday-Thursday, November 15-18, 2004, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The pressroom phone number will be 714-765-2030. Reporters can fill out a form to receive a complimentary registration badge by visiting
http://www2.avs.org/symposium/anah
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Contact: Ben Stein
bstein@aip.org
301-209-3091
American Institute of Physics
27-Sep-2004