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Science 8 July 1983:
Vol. 221. no. 4606, pp. 117 - 121
DOI: 10.1126/science.221.4606.117
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Microfabrication as a Scientific Tool

R. E. Howard 1, P. F. Liao 1, W. J. Skocpol 1, L. D. Jackel 1, and H. G. Craighead 1

1 Members of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733.

Research in microfabrication not only serves the microelectronics industry but also can provide research tools for studying the behavior of matter at submicrometer dimensions. A variety of techniques including optical, x-ray, and electron beam lithography and reactive ion etching can be used to make structures, devices, and arrays only hundreds of atoms across. Microfabrication techniques have been applied to experiments on surface-enhanced Raman scattering, transport in one-dimensional conductors, and macroscopic quantum tunneling. Recent progress is extending these techniques to scales of less than 100 angstroms.


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