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2 AMO Science Impacting the Economy
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... Internet optical backbone link capacity increased a hundredfold between 1995 and 1998, to 20,000 trillion bits per second.While the communications industry has recently suffered a downturn, the potential for increasing demand for capacity in the 21st century remains, with
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... Excimer lasers operate using the light emitted from gas molecules excited in an LASER LITHOGRAPHY A top-down scanning electron microscopic view of a field-effect transistor gate (green rectangle) where the source and drain for the device (narrow blue horizontal lines)
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... Designing future processing systems that extend the etching and deposition to ever-finer dimensions with higher aspect ratios, greater processing speeds, lower production costs, and increased uniformity will rely heavily on the insights that we are developing through these models. The dimensions of individual transistors on computer chips are shrinking to the level of the dimensions of single atoms ant!
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... atoms in electrical discharge lamps. At present, discharge plasma light sources including low-pressure fluorescent lamps and high-pressure, metal-halicle, high-intensity-discharge lamps yield both good color and efficiencies that are nearly five times greater than those of common incandescent lights.There is goof!
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... It wiD be an exciting adventure, one that is vital to our society, to explore new high-speed optical (levices and optical networks or perhaps even an entirely new optical phenomenon that one clay will play a central role in global communications. FIGURE 4 A hiker in a remote area can use a handheld GPS receiver to access atomic clocks that give his position to an accuracy of a few yards.
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