A lab mistake led to self-forming spiral patterns on metal surfaces, revealing chemical-mechanical interactions.

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong left a sample out by mistake. It was a small chip made of germanium, topped with thin layers ...

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

Understand and designing microfabrication processes based on photolithography and deposition/etching steps. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) has demonstrated powerful capabilities in many ...

Using a specially developed etching apparatus ... which probe the electrical voltage across a sample when it is exposed to a temperature difference along a defined direction.