Surface‐Tension‐Driven Patterning: Combining Tailored Physical Self‐Organization with Microfabrication Methods

Small features: One of the great current challenges is to find new techniques that reliably further reduce the scale at which patterns can be reproduced for the electronics industry, amongst others. A recent study provides a major advance in controlling surface-tension-driven self-organization in combination with a traditional microfabrication method to produce regularly spaced line patterns in an evaporating thin film through guided evaporation and dewetting (see figure).