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Article: Bell Labs Researchers Invent Technique for Imaging Single Impurity Atoms Within Silicon.
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- April 25, 2002
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MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2002
New method may be key to understanding limits of transistor
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Scientists at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU), have found a way to peer deep inside a semiconductor and create an image of a single impurity atom in silicon.
The feat -- the first time that an individual impurity has been pictured in its undisturbed state within a crystal -- was achieved using a special electron microscope, and is as difficult as seeing a footprint on the moon from the ...