In a paper in Nature Communications, the researchers describe how they created a random network of nanowires 10 micrometers long and no thicker than 500 nanometers and then subjected it to electrical stimulation.
Visible wavelengths measure hundreds of nanometers long, leaving far less room for error in aligning waves according to when they arrived at different telescopes.
Intel’s faced challenges recently, taking five years instead of two to move its chips from 14 nanometers to 10 nanometers.