The image shows an atomic-scale visualization of monolayer amorphous carbon's structure, displaying a network of irregularly arranged carbon atoms (shown by the red lattice lines) with varying bond ...

The discovery of (amorphous) silicon in 1824 is credited to Berzelius ... Silicon does not have a metallic-type lattice structure. There is no plasticity and it is more similar to the diamond ...

Silicon does not have to be crystalline, but can also be produced as an amorphous thin film. In such amorphous films, the atomic structure is disordered like in a liquid or glass.