Patent ID: 7799132

Claim:
A method of creating a structure, comprising: patterning a first portion of a first passivation layer with a first pattern, wherein the first passivation layer comprises a plurality of first nanoscale passivating particles, and wherein the first passivation layer is located on a first structural layer that comprises a plurality of first nanoscale structural particles such that patterning the first portion of the first passivation layer exposes a first portion of the first structural layer; growing, via at least one heteroepitaxial cycle of selective atomic layer epitaxy (ALE), a plurality of second nanoscale structural particles on the first portion of the first structural layer, the plurality of second nanoscale structural particles having a different composition than the plurality of first nanoscale structure particles; removing a second portion of the first passivation layer to expose a second portion of the first structural layer; growing, via at least one homoepitaxial cycle of selective ALE, a plurality of third nanoscale structural particles on the second portion of the first structural layer, the third nanoscale structural particles having the same composition as the first nanoscale structure particles; removing a plurality of second nanoscale passivating particles associated with the plurality of second nanoscale structural particles and growing a plurality of fourth nanoscale structural particles on the second nanoscale structural particles exposed by removing the plurality of second nanoscale passivating particles; and removing a plurality of third nanoscale passivating particles associated with the plurality of third nanoscale structural particles and growing a plurality of fifth nanoscale structural particles on the third nanoscale structural particles exposed by removing the plurality of third nanoscale passivating particles.