Wake Shield experiment set 'world record' in wafer purity
Last fall's flight of the Wake Shield Experiment aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour set a "world record" for purity in the semiconductor material it produced, possibly paving the way for fabricating the first devices with ultra-pure material grown in the vacuum created behind the 12- foot stainless...
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