But the thing that would really tipSilicon Valley to appreciate what Hollywood is trying to do would be if Silicon Valley started to produce its own content.
In a process the researchers describe in articles published today in Science and Advanced Materials, they used a silicon needle with a tip about ten thousand times smaller than an ant to sculpt a polymer material known as polyphthalaldehyde.
The researchers tried three ideas: a single tungsten tip, an array of silicon tips, and a film containing jagged fragments of synthetic diamond, whose sharp angles acted as tips.