Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally left out overnight. The layered sample consisted of a germanium wafer ...

Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer with metal films led to the discovery of intricate spiral patterns etched ...

Nanopatterning is the process of creating ordered structures or patterns at the nanoscale ... of materials to fabricate nanoscale features, such as grooves, dots, lines, or more complex geometries.