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Semiconductors and electronics

Semiconductors and electronics

Semiconductor substrate behaves ‘like the tail wagging the dog’, say scientists

02 May 2024 Isabelle Dumé
A photo of Venkatraman Gopalan in his optical lab, wearing laser safety goggles and smiling broadly. Other people in the background work at a laboratory bench.
Substrate star: Venkatraman Gopalan, professor of materials science and engineering and physics, in his optical lab. (Courtesy: Seana Wood/Penn State Materials Research Institute)
The substrates on which semiconductor chip are grown usually get ignored, but they may be more impor

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Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World
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