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How do you place a single arsenic atom with the ratio 1 in 100 million? Sounds difficult to get evenly spread throughout.

Yes, techniques for doping of materials with well-defined concentrations is the subject of a whole subfield of engineering... there are various techniques. A common method is to use a vapor of the dopant, which diffuses through a material. One can also use beams of atoms to implant them as dopants into a surface. Here's a Wikipedia article.



Kate Scholberg 2017-02-21