Silicon Chip (IMAGE)
Caption
A tiny silicon chip -- the glowing orange square at the center of this special heating device -- is heated to a temperature well below silicon's melting point, and then very slowly cooled down. The chip inside this heating device was placed in the path of a synchrotron beam to probe its changes at a molecular level as it went through the retrograde melting process.
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Patrick Gillooly, MIT
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