Archive for June, 2009
New continent
I am relocating for work purposes from Europe to the USA — Portland, Oregon to be precise. This adventure should not go without comment. You can follow my discoveries of this continent from a european perspective on this blog; I might even occasionally post some photos.
Small bridge
This was my entry to the EIPBN 2009 micro & nano-graph contest, titled “IBID micro-bridge / romantic yearnings”. It won in the “best video” category.
It shows live scanning electron microscopy (SEM) imaging of the microfabrication of a bridge by ion-beam-induced deposition (IBID) using a Ga+ beam of a platinum precursor, playback speed is 8x. It was made in a FEI Quanta 3D FEG (a dual-beam instrument).
Copyright Aurelien Botman and Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) 2009.
Music is Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an exhibition – Promenade II” played by Vladimir Horowitz in 1947.