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September 18, 2014

Moving silicon atoms in graphene with atomic precision
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 18, 2014
Richard Feynman famously posed the question in 1959: is it possible to see and manipulate individual atoms in materials? For a time his vision seemed more science fiction than science, but starting with groundbreaking experiments in the late 1980s and more recent developments in electron microscopy instrumentation it has become scientific reality. However, damage caused by the electron beam is often an issue in such experiments. The present study focused on single-layer graphene with silicon ... read more

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