Resembling arrays of flaming islands, these formations are actually microscopic,
etched out of semiconductor.
This semiconductor material is what we use to make microscopic lasers - we start
with a vast, featureless sheet of semiconductor and cover certain areas with a
protective layer of glassy photoresist. Then we blast the
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