Beautiful in their own way

[laira314]

I thought I'd share what's keeping me here despite my miserable lab situation. Just in case, I'm not posting how these were made, but these are some of my ruthenium films.

On silicon dioxide 1

On silicon dioxide 2

On silicon dioxide 3

On silicon

Comments

[shirou]

It asks me to log in to netfiles.uiuc.edu.

[laira314]

There, I forgot I had to set file permissions to allow the public to view them.

[shirou]

I agree, they are beautiful. It's amazing that we we have the ability see that kind of structure. :-)

What kind of microscope do you use to take the pictures?

[laira314]

It's a Hitachi S-4700, high-res