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By Janelle Shane On August 28, 2013 - 1 min read

Nanosilverfish? Someone asked me to post a picture of what one of my nanosamples should look like - one that doesn’t have nanofluff or nanozombies or other weird etching/dust problems. The reason I haven’t posted one before is that they look kinda boring - when everything goes

Monday August 26, 2013

By Janelle Shane On August 26, 2013 - 1 min read

Nano Boba Fett? This is an artifact made of semiconductor laser material, that appeared during a process meant to etch all the laser material away. Probably it was formed by a speck of dust landing in that spot and protecting the material underneath from the etching plasma… the remnants of

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By Janelle Shane On August 25, 2013 - 1 min read

Nano Boba Fett? This is an artifact made of semiconductor laser material, that appeared during a process meant to etch all the laser material away. Probably it was formed by a speck of dust landing in that spot and protecting the material underneath from the etching plasma… the remnants of

Saturday August 24, 2013

By Janelle Shane On August 24, 2013 - 1 min read

A microscope image of a beat-up-looking sample that was abandoned in one of our storage boxes. It looks like maybe it used to have some kind of coating on it, which has deteriorated, or maybe the coating never came out well in the first place, which would be why it

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By Janelle Shane On August 24, 2013 - 1 min read

A microscope image of a beat-up-looking sample that was abandoned in one of our storage boxes. It looks like maybe it used to have some kind of coating on it, which has deteriorated, or maybe the coating never came out well in the first place, which would be why it

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By Janelle Shane On August 23, 2013 - 1 min read

Plasma in a box! We use this machine to etch silicon by blasting it with high-energy plasma, and the machine’s makers were kind enough to include a little viewport in the side so you can look in and see the plasma. It’s this pretty glowing blue-violet color… one

Friday August 23, 2013

By Janelle Shane On August 23, 2013 - 1 min read

This is a single speck of dust, viewed at 14,000x under an electron microscope. It’s small enough that it would fit easily inside one of your cells. My lab builds most of our nanostructures in cleanrooms, designed to keep out dust like this… compared to the size of

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By Janelle Shane On August 22, 2013 - 1 min read

This is a single speck of dust, viewed at 14,000x under an electron microscope. It’s small enough that it would fit easily inside one of your cells. My lab builds most of our nanostructures in cleanrooms, designed to keep out dust like this… compared to the size of

Thursday August 22, 2013

By Janelle Shane On August 22, 2013 - 1 min read

Nature repeats itself on a small scale - These mesas and plateaus are only about 500 nanometers high… if you stacked 2,000 of them on top of each other, they’d just be a millimeter high. How did this happen? The entire landscape is made of laser material, which

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By Janelle Shane On August 21, 2013 - 1 min read

Nature repeats itself on a small scale - These mesas and plateaus are only about 500 nanometers high… if you stacked 2,000 of them on top of each other, they’d just be a millimeter high. How did this happen? The entire landscape is made of laser material, which

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