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Tag: newton rings

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A strange landscape with an even stranger sky. This is a microscope view of the edge of a smooth chunk of silicon, coated with a thin clear plasticy layer of photoresist.  Just like the colors in a soap bubble, this colorless thin layer produces rainbow colors due to the wave
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There aren’t any dyes or pigments in this photo - all this color is due to the wave nature of light.  Thin transparent films produce rainbows, when light waves bouncing off the top and the bottom of the film interfere with each other on the way back.   It’s
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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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Newton’s rings put on a microscopic show. This is a microscope image, about 20x, of some bright bands of color that appeared on the surface of one of my samples.  They’re formed from a colorless film of residue left behind after some IPA dried on my sample -
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It’s too bad that whenever I get interesting images, it’s usually a sign that something’s gone wrong. In this case, the rainbow rings means that there’s some junk left on my sample - this is residue left behind from IPA (now, that’s isopropyl alcohol, not
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