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  • Refining Semiconductors, One Atom at a Time

    04/10/2004 12:28:29 PM PDT · by neverdem · 15 replies · 379+ views
    NY Times ^ | April 8, 2004 | ANNE EISENBERG
    At the heart of semiconductor fabrication are crucial additives called dopants. These impurities change the electronic properties of silicon or other material to make the transistors and other components of a chip. Currently these dopants are added in bulk, their exact location usually no more a problem than the exact location of grains of baking soda or raisins stirred into cake batter. But as electronic devices shrink - and the hope is to get them down to the size of a molecule - serious problems with doping are expected. At that small a scale, the location of a needed doping...