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A team led by Berkeley and GWU working with the U of A's Center for Manipulation of Atomic Ordering for Manufacturing Semiconductors confirmed that atoms in semiconductors arrange themselves in ...

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Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

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Scientists reveal for the first time the atomic structure of liquid carbon, key to exoplanets and nuclear fusion.

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