detector fabrication (IMAGE)

Texas A&M University

detector fabrication

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Texas A&M University engineer Mark Platt (left) and experimental physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra in the fabrication facility, where the critical first step occurs: polishing a semiconductor crystal to a flatness 1/100th the thickness of a human hair. 

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