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52 PCB007 MAGAZINE I NOVEMBER 2024 new year. In addition to keeping our existing relationships current, there will be new senior elected and appointed officials we need to meet with and bring up to speed on our issues and invite to our facilities. Members' Actions We need to leverage the strength of our growing membership and partners like IPC and USPAE to educate, advocate, and cham- pion legislation and policies that revitalize our industry and strengthen our national and eco- nomic security. Each member of PCBAA has an important role to play in the year ahead. Ever y company has elected representa- tives who can influence our future and who could benefit from meeting with us and tour- ing facilities. Our Washington lobbying and communications team can help arrange these interactions. Each of our members has customers who should be members. is includes OEMs. We will reintroduce legislation in the new Con- gress and the elements of the bill will bene- fit everyone including OEMs. We are work- ing hard to bring OEMs into our membership. eir addition would amplify our voice and boost our impact. Like many of us, PCBAA attended PCB West last month. We were encouraged by the number of companies passionate about what PCBAA is doing for the industry. We all recog- nize the steep hill we are climbing as we com- pete for recognition, understanding and fund- ing inside Washington. ere will be a lot of noise in Washington when a new president occupies the White House and new members of Congress arrive on the scene. It is every member's job to remind them all that "chips don't float" and that there is more work to be done to create a secure and resilient supply chain for the microelectronics we depend on. PCB007 Shane Whiteside is president and CEO of Summit Interconnect and current chair of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America. To read past columns, click here. A research team led by the Department of Ener- gy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has devised a unique method to observe changes in materials at the atomic level. The technique opens new ave- nues for understanding and developing advanced materials for quantum computing and electron- ics. The new technique, called the Rapid Object Detection and Action System (RODAS), com- bines imaging, spectroscopy, and microscopy methods to capture the properties of fleeting atomic structures as they form, providing unprecedented insights into how material properties evolve at the smallest scales. When analyzing the specimen, RODAS focuses only on areas of interest. This approach enables rapid analysis—in seconds or milliseconds—com- pared with sometimes several minutes that can be required by other STEM-EELS methods. Impor- tantly, RODAS extracts crucial information without destroying the sample. The RODAS technique represents a signifi- cant leap forward in materials characterization. It empowers researchers to dynamically explore structure-property relationships during analysis, target specific atoms or defects for measure- ment as they form, efficiently col- lect data on various defect types, adapt to identify new atomic or defect classes in real time and minimize sample damage while maintaining detailed analysis. (Source: ORNL) New Technique Could Unlock Potential of Quantum Materials