Janelle Shane

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

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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

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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

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 I

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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 I

Monday August 19, 2013

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

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

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

Sunday August 18, 2013

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

Nanozombies! These people-shaped nanopillars were formed by accident while I was etching away laser material to make the long wall at the left of the picture. They creeped me out a little until someone pointed out to me in my last picture [http://tmblr.co/ZP7VLssWK9yZ] that they look

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