... can look through a piece a hundred miles thick and not even know it is there. A recent development shows how important this can be. Modern digital computers, large NC machines and or laptops are now dependent upon microprocessors-computer chips made from crystals of silicon and small amounts of other elements. Silicon, an excellent material for controlling electrons, is a semiconductor. Superconductivity, the flow ... ...

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