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Keeping track of dopants

Semiconductor nanowires need to be doped before they can be used for many applications, but this process is not well understood. A laser-based approach has now shed new light on the doping of nanowires.

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Figure 1: Phosphorus incorporation into germanium nanowires.

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Radovanovic, P. Keeping track of dopants. Nature Nanotech 4, 282–283 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.104

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