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Spiders, spinnerets, spigots, and silk

March 14, 2021

I’ve seen many fascinating things under the scanning electron microscope. Pollen, various crystals, diatoms, and even viral particles. But nothing…

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SEM beam alignment: The Happy Place

June 26, 2019

Aligning Milly’s electron beam is tricky business. It’s a process involving hours (or even days!) of pain and uncertainty that…

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Ain’t no party like a SEM party

June 15, 2019

’cause a SEM party got diatoms. More in the Google Photo album.

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Pollen

May 24, 2019

Enjoy some random pollen samples.

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2017: Year in Review

December 26, 2017

Looks like I haven’t made a lot of time for blogging this year. I’ve been too busy taking photos with…

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Experiments in nano manufacturing

January 17, 2017

There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom. —Richard Feynman With the recent demise of Milly’s electron emitter, I attempted to…

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New Year, New Emitter

December 31, 2016

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men…

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Happiness is an aligned electron beam

December 17, 2015

Back in business. What should I look at next?

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SEM back online

November 29, 2015

A couple of months ago, Milly started having beam issues. At the time it seemed like emitter trouble. New emitter modules…

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Megapixel images from an analog SEM

June 2, 2015

I recently posted my first batch of photos from Milly. While I am happy with her beam performance, I was…

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