阅读下面的短文,文章中有5处空白,文章后面有6组文字,请根据文章的内容选择5组文字,将其分别放回文章原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。 Watching Microcurrents Flow We can
now watch electricity as it flows through even the tiniest circuits. By scanning
the magnetic field generated as electric currents flow through objects,
physicists have managed (46) . The technology will allow
manufacturers to scan microchips for faults, as well as revealing microscopic
defects in anything from aircraft to banknotes. Gang Xiao and
Ben Schrag at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, visualize the
current by measuring subtle changes in the magnetic field of an object and
(47) Their sensor is adapted from an
existing piece of technology that is used to measure large magnetic fields in
computer hard drives. "We redesigned the magnetic sensor to make it capable of
measuring very weak changes in magnetic fields," says Xiao. The
resulting device is capable of detecting a current as weak as 10 microamperes,
even when the wire is buried deep within a chip, and it shows up features as
small as 40 nanometers across. At present, engineers looking for
defects in a chip have to peel off the layers and examine the circuits visually;
this is one of the obstacles (48) . But the new magnetic
microscope is sensitive enough to look inside chips and reveal faults such as
short circuits, nicks in the wires or electro migration -- where a dense area of
current picks up surrounding atoms and moves them along. "It is like watching a
river flow," explains Xiao. As well as scanning tiny circuits,
the microscope can be used to reveal the internal structure of any object
capable of conducting electricity. For example, it could look directly at
microscopic cracks in an aeroplane’s fuselage, (49) . The
technique cannot yet pick up electrical activity in the human brain because the
current there is too small, but Xiao doesn’t rule it out in the future. "I can
never say never," he says. Although the researchers have only
just made the technical details of the microscope public, it is already on sale,
from electronics company Micro Magnetics in Fall River, Massachusetts. It is
currently the size of a refrigerator and takes several minutes to scan a
circuit, but Xiao and Schrag are working (50) . A. to
shrink it to the size of a desktop computer and cut the scanning time to 30
seconds B. to making chips any smaller C. to take tiny chips we
require D. to picture the progress of the currents E. converting the
information into a color picture showing the density of current at each
point F. faults in the metal strip of a forged banknote or bacteria in a
water sample