The controlled positioning of more than 8,000 chlorine vacancies on a surface at 77 K is a step towards the implementation of ultradense rewritable atomic memories.
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Erwin, S. A picture worth a thousand bytes. Nature Nanotech 11, 919–920 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.141
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