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Tag: microscope art

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Thin transparent films produce rainbows - an effect due to the wave nature of light (the same effect that gives soap bubbles their rainbow colors).  Here, the thin film might be photoresist or dried residue from some sort of solvent, like acetone.  I’ll probably never know, since this wasn’
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There are no dyes or pigments in this microscope image - it’s a thin clear film on a blank mirrorlike surface, and all the colors come from the interference of light waves.  It’s the same effect that produces the rainbow colors in thin soap bubbles, or on a
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Thin-film effects, viewed under a microscope, imitate the night sky.  What you see here is a flat surface that has a few defects on it (probably pieces of dust), covered with a thin, transparent film.  According to the thickness of the film, you get different colors reflected back - this
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Soap bubble-like rainbow colors means that this sample has a thin film of something on it, just like a soap bubble or oily puddle.  The colors change quickly, so there’s probably a ton of variation in the thickness of the coating - in fact, the rainbow stripes are packed
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Multicolored marbled patterns! Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you an unsuccessful attempt to clean tape scum off a delicate semiconductor surface.  The carbon tape I use in the scanning electron microscope, which looks so cool in the microscope and improves my image quality so much, leaves scum behind, as it
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Colorful flames and smoke? This is actually Newton’s Rings again, a colorful microscopic pattern that appeared on my sample of laser material after some isopropyl alcohol dried funny.  It must have left a thin film of something behind, and that produced rainbow patterns in the same way a thin
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