| Given existing methods for making microcircuits, de Heer expects coated wafers to be more useful than graphene flakes. |
| Silicon wafers used for building microcircuits are usually polished at one specific angle to the atomic planes of silicon. |
| Instead of producing microcircuits, Intel could end up making furnaces. |
| The most time-consuming and expensive step in constructing microcircuits focuses a pattern of light onto a semiconductor surface coated with a photosensitive film. |
| As if damaging incredibly delicate microcircuits was a helpful response to a problem, Verbena Beeks shook the hand-link. |
| Not far off, say the technology's developers, are photonic microcircuits that process light beams the way today's microelectronics chips process electric currents. |
