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Probing dopants at the atomic level

A more comprehensive understanding of coupled quantum systems could soon be in reach with a capacitance-based scanning probe technique that explores the behaviour and interaction of individual dopant atoms in a semiconductor.

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Simmons, M. Probing dopants at the atomic level. Nature Phys 4, 165–166 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys902

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