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Small tools can be made by etching one of a variety of crystallographically limited pits into a single crystal mandrel, filling the pit with tool material and removing the mandrel. Fabrication of arrays of chisels and pyramidal points using a silicon mandrel and process technology common in the semiconductor electronics industry is discussed.
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D. A. Kiewit (1973) studied this question.
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