
Semiconductor substrate behaves ‘like the tail wagging the dog’, say scientists
X-ray pulses reveal surprising response in titanium dioxide substrate for fast transistors
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X-ray pulses reveal surprising response in titanium dioxide substrate for fast transistors
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