Let’s nature help: look for self-organization

From

http://imowww.epfl.ch/Nanoweb/default.htm

Growth on non-planar

grooved structures

Thicker GaAs (the wire) at the bottom of the groove results from the competition between the growth rate anisotropy on the different facets of the groove and the surface diffusion of adatoms.

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