A UW-led team of international researchers has found a way to get extremely small materials to assemble themselves into patterns for use in electronic circuits.
The finding is important because electronics must be built on an ever-smaller scale, especially if they are to be used in the rapidly growing field of super-small nanotechnology.
The team, led by UW-Madison Prof. Paul Nealey, reported today in the journal Science that it can show how to create complex patterns vital in the production of nanoelectronics.