Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

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

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Beautiful spiral patterns had been etched into the germanium ... followed by a 4-nanometer layer of gold. Next, the researchers placed a drop of mild etching solution onto the surface and dried ...