We give a comprehensive overview of the development of micro traps, from the first experiments on guiding atoms using current carrying wires in the early 1990's to the creation of a BEC on an atom chip.
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@article{arxiv.0805.2613,
title = {Microscopic atom optics: from wires to an atom chip},
author = {R. Folman and P. Kruger and J. Schmiedmayer and J. Denschlag and C. Henkel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2613},
year = {2008}
}
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published version can be downloaded at: http://www.atomchip.org -> Review Articles