{"id":1980,"date":"2017-06-04T07:36:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2018-11-04T07:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T15:54:25","slug":"wafer-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2017\/06\/04\/wafer-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Wafer art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father is an artist, and he recently spent a few weeks in Berkeley, where he had the chance to paint. Since painting on a canvas is boring, I thought he could try to paint on pieces of silicon wafer, which are the principal component for the fabrication of microprocessors, and indeed he did:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1981\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/silicone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1981\" class=\" wp-image-1981\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/silicone-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/silicone-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/silicone-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/silicone-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/silicone-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicone (Romain Wojdyla, 2017)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1982\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Le-monde-upside-down-II.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\" wp-image-1982\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Le-monde-upside-down-II-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Le-monde-upside-down-II-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Le-monde-upside-down-II-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Le-monde-upside-down-II-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Le-monde-upside-down-II-768x769.jpg 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Le-monde-upside-down-II.jpg 1491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Monde Upside Down II (Romain Wojdyla, 2017)<\/p>\n<\/div><p>I was able to salvage an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.photomask.com\/products\/euv-masks\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.photomask.com\/products\/euv-masks', 'EUV photomask']);\" >EUV photomask<\/a> from my lab, which is basically the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/semiconductors\/nanotechnology\/euv-lithography-finally-ready-for-chip-manufacturing\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/semiconductors\/nanotechnology\/euv-lithography-finally-ready-for-chip-manufacturing', 'gold master']);\" >gold master<\/a> for engraving these microchips. These surface are extremely precise (down to the atomic level), yet the paint stuck:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1983\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/floating-point.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1983\" class=\" wp-image-1983\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/floating-point-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/floating-point-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/floating-point-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/floating-point-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/floating-point-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/floating-point.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floating Point (Romain Wojdyla, 2017)<\/p>\n<\/div><p>There&#8217;s also a swath of art <em>in-silico<\/em>, not too far from David Hockney&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/10\/the-ipad-is-an-artists-canvas-for-david-hockney\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/10\/the-ipad-is-an-artists-canvas-for-david-hockney\/', 'iPad paintings']);\" >iPad paintings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1984\" style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/S-Me\u0301mo_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1984\" class=\" wp-image-1984\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/S-Me\u0301mo_11-712x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/S-Me\u0301mo_11-712x1024.jpg 712w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/S-Me\u0301mo_11-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/S-Me\u0301mo_11-768x1105.jpg 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/S-Me\u0301mo_11.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled (Romain Wojdyla, 2011)<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Happy birthday dad!<\/p>(some of his artwork is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/romain.wojdyla.fr\">romain.wojdyla.fr<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father is an artist, and he recently spent a few weeks in Berkeley, where he had the chance to paint. Since painting on a canvas is boring, I thought he could try to paint on pieces of silicon wafer, which are the principal component for the fabrication of microprocessors, and indeed he did:I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-science","category-english","category-projects","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}