SEM Images of Bugs, etc
carpenter ant
with a piece of silicon
wafer in
its mandibles (staged)
the eye
close-up of the compound eye
close-up of the face
tip of the broken antenna
wolf spider
eight eyes
A spider's legs are hydraulic and become flattened during the
process of pumping down the microscope chamber to a high vacuum.
the two front-center eyes
just below the front-center left eye
an upper left eye and hairs
hairs on the spider's back
flea
mite
mite
a closer look
The following images were actually work-related.
obviously NOT part of the design
| Passivation "pillars" formed when copper particles were left behind on a passivation thin-film layer [a step in the process of integrated circuit wafer fabrication]. When the passivation was etched away, the copper particle shielded the passivation beneath it from the etch, leaving it behind, creating the pillar. The dry riverbed appearance of the general surface is from the 5-year-old Au-Pd coating applied to the sample for conductivity. -- Rick |
cross-section of a gold-plated
copper trace
Platinum was deposited on the trace with a Focused Ion Beam (FIB)
to facilitate in the cross-sectioning process. -- Rick
gold at 1 million times magnification and at
1kV
Very impressive for any SEM to achieve. -- Rick