Sunday, September 14, 2008

Simulacra Sunday - Round 9

Kate Kelchner, a graduate student working in a nanofabrication lab at University of California, Santa Barbara, spotted these fellows using a scanning electron microscope! She says, "The 'skulls' are all less than 100 microns wide, or 1/10th of a millimeter. The patterns come from a photo-sensitive polymer that bubbles up around the edge of a sample.  A pattern is transferred to the polymer during a photolithography process, which is then transferred to the dielectric SiO2 layer underneath during a plasma etch process."

6 comments:

b13 said...

COOL!
Itty-bitty-teensy-weensy-skullies!

Tatman said...

In my best comic book guy voice....

"Smallest skulls ever!"

Alpha said...

Woah... spooky.

Little JMC said...

The third one looks like Sponge Bob Square Skull!

mim said...

This is SO amazing!

Couchgirl13 said...

Think I'm gonna have to show these to my mom, then maybe she can explain it to me in english. lol. Tres cool though. Probably the smallest skulls ever!