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Professor John McGilp Inaugural Lecture |
Prof. Mike Coey, Prof. John McGilp, Provost John Hegarty, Prof. James Lunney
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SHEDDING LIGHT ON PERFECTION
PHOTONS AT THE SURFACE OF SILICON
Thursday 7th February 2008, the Schrödinger theatre, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin
The Lecture was part of the 'Light Wave' festival program of talks for general audiences, hosted by the Science Gallery, Trinity College.
Silicon lies at the heart of modern civilisation and is the most perfect material produced by man. The microprocessor at the heart of a computer or a mobile phone is grown on a perfect silicon surface. The lecture concetrated on how light is used to find out what is happening to the atoms at the surface of silicon.
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