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Bell Labs Researchers Invent Technique for Imaging Single Impurity Atoms w/in Si

Written by: Tyler O'Neal, Staff Editor
Category: RETAIL
Published: April 15, 2015, 8:38 am
MURRAY HILL, NJ -- 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 Earth.

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