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Friday 7 September 2007

Atom spotting

Being able to 'see' individual atoms blows my mind. Here's a Chemistry World news story about atom probe tomography - a technique that has been used for spotting dopant atoms in silicon semiconductors.

Probe maps individual atoms in semiconductor


06 September 2007

Troublesome clusters of dopant atoms have been 'seen' for the first time.

US researchers have drawn up the first 3D maps of the individual atoms in a semiconductor. These atomic plots are a crucial breakthrough in understanding how to make silicon transistors even smaller, said Keith Thompson of Imago Scientific Instruments, Madison, Wisconsin.

Read the full story here.