Image: Jacqueline Kwa
Sometimes technology mimics nature. A copper grid and the platinum metal deposited on it were ejected at different rates by a beam of energetic ions, and the result was a platinum lily in a copper valley.
Just as one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, one person’s systems failure is another one’s masterpiece. This is the third year that the “Art of Failure Analysis”was featured at the IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA). Participants submitted the most intriguing images they’d captured during chip autopsies. Favorite pictures from the collection, which range from charming to just plain creepy, were on display at the symposium from 5 to 9 July in Singapore.
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