June 15, 2003

Atomic level "tuning" achieved at Oak Ridge in nano breakthrough. Money quote:

The physicists' sophisticated experiments demonstrated that the Schottky barrier � the boundary at the edge of a substance where electrons are confined, long considered an inflexible limitation � can in fact be manipulated, and that "barrier height" is, in Buongiorno Nardelli's words, "no longer a problem, but an opportunity."
Posted by Greg Ransom