Engineers chart semiconductors on the scale of atoms

Spanning fewer than a thousand atoms, the electronic devices on semiconductor chips have become so miniscule they defy most efforts to characterize them. Now for the first time, engineers have demonstrated a way to image these vanishingly small devices by mapping them atom by atom.

If you want to include this story in your blog, copy and paste this formatted text:

<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news5556.html">Engineers chart semiconductors on the scale of atoms</a></p> <p>Spanning fewer than a thousand atoms, the electronic devices on semiconductor chips have become so miniscule they defy most efforts to characterize them. Now for the first time, engineers have demonstrated a way to image these vanishingly small devices by mapping them atom by atom. </p>