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The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald operates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is pri vate property. The unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable by law. NEWSROOM Editor-in-chief: Sarah Kickler Managing Editor: Nicole Krueger Community: Eric Collins, editor. Michael Burnham, Jesse Sowa Entertainment: Evan Denbaum, editor. Higher Education: Laura Cadiz, editor. Nicole Kristal, Teri Meeuwsen, Kari Thorene In-depth: Ashley Bach Perspective: Michael Schmierbach, edi tor. Chris Hutchinson, illustrator. Jonas Allen. Kameron Cole, Hannah Dillon, Jeff Shaw, columnists. Student Activities: Doug Irving, editor. Michael Hines, Kristina Rudinskas Sports: Ryan Frank, editor. 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Plastics are generally used as in sulating materials in electronics and in the fabrication of electronic devices, but not to conduct elec tricity, Lonergan said. Lonergan admits that chemists are not usually in the habit of cre ating electronic components. “I work a little bit out of the realm of a typical chemist,” he said. “I’m a chemist who has wandered off into the area of applied physics.” Conventional diodes are used in electronic circuits such as radio and television receivers. If the tun able diode can hold up in a practi cal environment, Lonergan spec ulates his device could be used for new sensors and “multiple-state memory.” Conventional memory in modern electronics are based on two states: on and off. The tun able diode may enable the design of memory architectures based on a greater number of states, thereby enhancing storage capacity. Lonergan, who has received a provisional patent for his tunable diode, said his research team and the University will ultimately bene fit from the invention of the device. Although Lonergan was able to create the tunable diode in the lab. more research will be needed to determine how the device works. “There are still a lot of barriers that remain to its practical imple mentation,” Lonergan said. “If the concept of the tunable diode can be successfully transferred into a practical device, it may one day join the transistor, resistor and ca pacitor as a common component found in a myriad of new electron ic devices.” Campus Briefs Oregon Health Plan available to students Oregon reinstated under graduate students to the Ore gon Health Plan on Jan. 1. The Legislature had cut stu dents from the plan, which provides health care coverage to some Oregonians, in 1995. The action removed between 5,000 and 7,000 students, ac cording to the Oregon Student Association. 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