AI Weirdness (Page 82)

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By Janelle Shane On July 22, 2013 - 1 min read

The “light” at the bottom of this glowing crater is all electrons. What you’re seeing here is a thin layer of glass with a hole chipped in it. At the bottom of the hole, just out of the field of view, is a layer of silicon. In the electron

Saturday July 20, 2013

By Janelle Shane On July 20, 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 etching

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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 etching

Tuesday July 16, 2013

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 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

Monday July 15, 2013

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

An upside-down mountain, formed from dust. The whole thing is about the size of a single bacterium. The mountain is, as usual, not supposed to be there - it’s a piece of dust that landed on my sample. Despite doing all my processing work in the cleanroom, it’s

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

An upside-down mountain, formed from dust. The whole thing is about the size of a single bacterium. The mountain is, as usual, not supposed to be there - it’s a piece of dust that landed on my sample. Despite doing all my processing work in the cleanroom, it’s

Tuesday July 09, 2013

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

Reactive ion etcher: capable of using high-energy plasma to blast away metal, glass, and a lot more. Also capable of running Solitaire. To be fair, the guy using this machine is probably killing time while the machine runs an etching process, or pumps the system down to vacuum. Otherwise

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

Reactive ion etcher: capable of using high-energy plasma to blast away metal, glass, and a lot more. Also capable of running Solitaire. To be fair, the guy using this machine is probably killing time while the machine runs an etching process, or pumps the system down to vacuum. Otherwise

Sunday July 07, 2013

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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