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20 PCB007 MAGAZINE I JANUARY 2025 problem. is is a "one world" problem. Every- one in every industry needs the same skills we need because they are using the devices we are creating for them. So, what can be done? Well, as the global electronics association, IPC has been striving to alleviate some of this burden from our great industr y by working with you, our industr y members, to under- stand exactly what skills and capabilities you need in your workforce. We then give that information to our team of expert instruc- tional designers, who apply the latest learning science to ensure the information you want your workforce to know can be learned and retained quickly, accurately, and with fantas- tic staying power. Even better news: You can tr y out some of these programs (and obtain serialized certifi- cates) for free as an IPC member. Our job as the global electronics association is to help the electronics industr y continue to be suc- cessful. We strive to accomplish this by pro- viding our members with free courses in employee health and safety and product qual- ity and reliability, such as courses on elec- trostatic discharge (ESD), safety, and for- eign object debris (FOD). ey allow you to sample and see the level of training you can enjoy. Of course, we offer many other courses that will help your team on their pathways to their career objectives. If that wasn't enough, there are now government-funded opportu- nities to defray those costs as well that IPC has been able to secure. My entire life has been spent in the belief that if we keep learning and adding skills, we can excel well beyond today's limits, and we can compete in a constantly changing indus- try. Continuous learning helps individuals expand their skills and knowledge and enhance their careers. When you have lifelong learners on your team, your company excels. Try out IPC's free courses today and learn how you can revolutionize your workforce skills and capa- bilities going forward. Continual education is where it is at. PCB007 Dr. John W. Mitchell is president and CEO of IPC. To read past columns, click here. While atoms are known to wiggle very fast, dop- ants added to a cuprate superconductor can also cause atoms to meander very slowly. A SLAC study shows this process, called atomic relaxation, offers a new way to explore quantum states in these puz- zling materials. Now researchers at the Department of Ener- gy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken a new look from the opposite direction: They observed how an exceedingly slow process known as atomic relaxation changes in the presence of two of the quantum states that intertwine in cuprate superconductors. The research team described the results today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Atomic relaxation can be triggered by many things, including doping – the introduction of a new element into a material's atomic lattice to change its electronic properties. Doping makes the semi- conductors in modern electronics possible, and it's commonly used in research on high-performance materials such as superconductors. In cuprates, it's used to generate superconductivity. NSLS II beamline scientists Andrei Fluerasu and Xiaoqian M. Chen contributed to this work, along with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, the Uni- versity of Waterloo in Ontario and Lund University in Sweden. Primary funding for this research came from the DOE Office of Science. NSLS-II is a DOE Office of Science user facility. (Source: SLAC) Slow Atomic Movements Shed New Light on Unconventional Superconductivity