December 1999
Volume 5, Number 6

Features

Putting nanotubes to work
Carbon nanotubes are stronger and tougher than steel, can carry higher current densities than either copper or superconductors, and are able to form transistors a few nanometers across. Reliable methods of mass production are just beginning to emerge--Eric Lerner

News

Physicists graduate from Wall Street
Over the past decade, the number of Ph.D. physicists employed in the financial community has increased dramatically and some have gone on to found their own systems development companies--Jennifer Ouellette

Technologies of the next century
Thirty-seven projects aimed at solving technology problems of strategic economic import have received a financial infusion from the Advanced Technology Program
--Patrick Young

Briefs
Making molecular switches; ion sputtering; Rolf Landauer--Eric Lerner

Departments

Letters

Technology
Making ferroelectric memories--Domokos Hadnagy

Data and Trends
Electronic shadows--Eric Lerner

Where the jobs are--Raymond Chu and Amanda Benedict

Corporate Associates
Tackling the future of energy--Jennifer Oulette

Forum
Polymers in Minneapolis--Laura Smoliar and James Kaufman

New Products