Janelle Shane

Wednesday September 18, 2013

By Janelle Shane On September 18, 2013 - 1 min read

Nanoscale forces work in non-intuitive ways sometimes. This wall of semiconductor was plasma-etched so thin that the middle was etched entirely away, leaving the wall’s top floating eerily above void. It’s thin and lacy, and only touches the wall’s bottom in a few delicate places, yet it

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By Janelle Shane On September 18, 2013 - 1 min read

Nanoscale forces work in non-intuitive ways sometimes. This wall of semiconductor was plasma-etched so thin that the middle was etched entirely away, leaving the wall’s top floating eerily above void. It’s thin and lacy, and only touches the wall’s bottom in a few delicate places, yet it

Saturday September 14, 2013

By Janelle Shane On September 14, 2013 - 1 min read

String! I definitely wasn’t expecting to see this - it startled me when I first came across it, partly because it was looping up dramatically into midair before it sagged, as I watched, under the glare of the microscope’s electron beam. It came to rest draped over one

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By Janelle Shane On September 14, 2013 - 1 min read

String! I definitely wasn’t expecting to see this - it startled me when I first came across it, partly because it was looping up dramatically into midair before it sagged, as I watched, under the glare of the microscope’s electron beam. It came to rest draped over one

Tuesday September 10, 2013

By Janelle Shane On September 10, 2013 - 1 min read

Looking like architectural columns, these structures are more than two million times shorter than their life-sized counterparts. Put another way, they’re only knee-high to a bacterium - the only way we can see them is with a powerful electron microscope. We’re not making buildings with these structures, but

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By Janelle Shane On September 10, 2013 - 1 min read

Looking like architectural columns, these structures are more than two million times shorter than their life-sized counterparts. Put another way, they’re only knee-high to a bacterium - the only way we can see them is with a powerful electron microscope. We’re not making buildings with these structures, but

Monday September 09, 2013

By Janelle Shane On September 09, 2013 - 1 min read

Here’s another example of what happens when dust lands on my sample just before the etching phase. The giant wing-like airy structure is the dust - due to the odd way nanoscale forces work, this fragile thing remains upright and intact even after the sample’s tilted and jostled.

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By Janelle Shane On September 09, 2013 - 1 min read

Here’s another example of what happens when dust lands on my sample just before the etching phase. The giant wing-like airy structure is the dust - due to the odd way nanoscale forces work, this fragile thing remains upright and intact even after the sample’s tilted and jostled.

Friday September 06, 2013

By Janelle Shane On September 06, 2013 - 1 min read

Three views of the same flasks of fluorescent rhodamine dye. At the far right is a picture of how the flasks look under regular room lights. In the middle, the scene is illuminated by a UV-emitting flashlight (otherwise known as a blacklight). Under this strong, high-energy illumination, the fluorescence from

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By Janelle Shane On September 06, 2013 - 1 min read

Three views of the same flasks of fluorescent rhodamine dye. At the far right is a picture of how the flasks look under regular room lights. In the middle, the scene is illuminated by a UV-emitting flashlight (otherwise known as a blacklight). Under this strong, high-energy illumination, the fluorescence from

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