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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (31141)	6/24/1999 10:26:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Brian, Re: "MURRAY HILL, NJ -- Researchers at Bell Labs believe they have bought some time for silicon-based transistor technology by developing ultra-thin gate oxides that are only 5 atoms thick." I heard a brief dissertation on this last week. Five atoms thick, exactly what the speaker said. He also said that the ultra-thin gate oxides have to be exactly 5 atoms thick to work (what they've done to this point). When they go down to four atoms because the process isn't perfect, they get tunneling, which, I guess would result in a short. Anyway, sound like a great challenge for AMAT down the road? Tony