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By Janelle Shane On August 15, 2013 - 1 min read

Tiny nanostructures. If you stacked a thousand of the largest one on top of each other, they would just about equal the thickness of a single sheet of paper. And then you should tell me how you managed to do it - maybe we could write a paper together. These

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By Janelle Shane On August 13, 2013 - 1 min read

A speck of dust, viewed under the electron microscope. Looks a bit to me like a pirouetting bison. The dust is definitely microscopic - about 40 of these would fit inside your average skin cell. It’s sitting on the metal holder we use for mounting our samples - all

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By Janelle Shane On August 12, 2013 - 1 min read

Could this be the creature who’s been clambering all over my sample, raking scratches into my designs, cackling all the while? I sometimes wonder. … Or maybe it’s actually a speck of dust, as usual. This one’s large for a dust particle, but still invisible to the human

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

Extreme close-ups: Tape at 272x, using an electron microscope This particular kind of tape has a kind of black cratered texture, and you can just barely see the holes when you hold a piece of the tape in your hands. In fact, the holes are right around the width of

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

Bashful dust particle, viewed under an electron microscope Since our electron microscope isn’t inside the cleanroom, it’s hard to avoid the occasional visiting particle of dust. They appear randomly, like small beings exploring immense and weird landscapes. This one’s microscopic, and stands on a well-scratched metal surface.

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By Janelle Shane On July 19, 2013 - 1 min read

A particle of dust, viewed at around 19,000x in an electron microscope. It’s sitting on a little pedestal that it made itself out of my semiconductor laser material - no, I didn’t give it permission. The dust particle selflessly protected that patch of semiconductor from the harsh

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By Janelle Shane On July 16, 2013 - 1 min read

Microscopic hills along a glass fracture Here, the edge of one of my samples was chipped, and the glass had flaked off in a ridged pattern. The ridges continued right down to the border of the chipped area, where they became microscopic. These hills are so small that you could

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By Janelle Shane On July 07, 2013 - 1 min read

Extreme close-up of tape in a scanning electron microscope. It’s conductive carbon tape, which we use for mounting stuff in the electron microscope, and it’s usually covered in strange craters and textures - I don’t know what purpose those serve. Does make it look like some kind

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By Janelle Shane On July 03, 2013 - 1 min read

Someone asked me yesterday how big my samples are, and what it all looks like. This is a zoomed-out view (only 90x!) showing a nearly edge-on view of one of my samples, sitting on a cratered sea of carbon tape. It’s so zoomed-out that I almost feel embarrassed asking

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

I posted a picture of the jagged broken edge of my sample the other day. Now here’s the same spot under the electron microscope. This view’s looking from the side, so you see all the detail of the dark edge where the silicon snapped. This far zoomed out,

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