In response to Dylan Bryant's query about "jumping": If one makes a micromachined coil, of the kind shown by Prof. Mark Allen's group at Georgia Tech, over which one places the "jumper", and discharges a pulse of current through the coil, the induced eddy currents and corresponding Lorenz force can produce a nice "jump". /sds -- ============================================================== Stephen D. Senturia,Weller Professor of Electrical Engineering Room 39-567, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, 02139 Phone 617-253-6869 sds@mtl.mit.edu FAX 617-253-9606 ==============================================================