Diatome

Courtesy of Gokhan ERDOGAN

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Foraminifera

Courtesy of Ekaterina Nikitina

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Hybrid inorganic/polymer based photovoltaic nanodevices offer the promise of low cost large area conversion of solar energy to electricity. Nanostructures of zinc oxide have shown supreme capabilities in emerging technologies ranging from solar energy harvesting to biosensing. However, the ability to control the size and position of these nanostructures is crucial for fabricating nanodevices with remarkable properties and astonishing solar energy conversion efficiencies. Herein, we present a collection of scanning electron micrographs of zinc oxide nanostructures prepared by low temperature hydrothermal methods Image taken and Processed by Luisa Whittaker PhD.

Courtesy of Gerald Poirier

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

The picture shows the structures of molybdenum thin film grown on a polymer and grouped in a similar way to chromosomes. Molybdenum thin films are used as back contact in thin film based solar cells.

Courtesy of Eberhardt Josue Friedrich Kernahan

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Anchored carbon nanotubes encapsulating Metallic nanowires

Courtesy of Giovanni Desiderio

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Particles were found on the wafer surfaces inline after a plasma was generated through this quartz tube. I cracked open the tube and found how the plasma was etching into the quartz, revealing these structures that would eventually thin enough to break off and land on the wafer.

Courtesy of Mr. Noel Forrette , IM Flash

Taken by Magellan XHR SEM microscope

charging around a tungsten wire

Courtesy of Martina Dienstleder

Taken by DualBeam microscope

The preparation of 100 nm thin cryo sections in the FIB-SEM. Due to the flexibility of the ice sheets, support is required to stabilize the structure during milling. Hence this construction is chosen, which resembles a medieval city wall.

Courtesy of Matthijs de Winter

Taken by DualBeam microscope

E. coli bacteria (Escherichia coli) is a common type of bacteria that can get into food, like beef and vegetables. Normally lives inside the intestines

Courtesy of Michal Rawski

Taken by Quanta 3D microscope

Reishi Mushroom Powder

Courtesy of gu li

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Efavirenz is an anti-HIV drug that reduces the amount of virus in the body. It is one of the most recent classes of anti-retroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV infections. It is the first choice therapy for AIDS treatment.

Courtesy of Mr. FRANCISCO RANGEL , MCTI/INT

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Polyimide Removal on a Package

Courtesy of FEI

Taken by Vion Plasma microscope

Ceramic particles imaged at low vacuum in Ultra-High Resolution mode.

Courtesy of Paul Gunning, Smith and Nephew

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

It's an environmental scanning electron microscope image of the fracture surface of an effervescent tablet of Vitamin C.

Courtesy of Mr. FRANCISCO RANGEL , MCTI/INT

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Artery with red blood cells.

Courtesy of Laura Tormo cifuentes, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC

Taken by Inspect S50 microscope

Graphite crucible failure with Ti

Courtesy of Dr. Clarissa Wisner , MS&T

Taken by Helios NanoLab microscope

Carbon nanotubes ancapsulating metallic nanowires

Courtesy of Desiderio Giovanni

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

The image shows a 10*10, 1.5mm long, 400 micron pitch Utah Neural Wireless Electrode array for communicating with individual neurons from the brain. The substrate consists of machined crisscross channels which are 500 μm deep, filled with glass frits (insulator between each electrode), with backside metallization (not visible in the picture) using microfabricaion techniques for integration with the electronics. The frontside of the array is machined into 100 electrodes on a wafer level followed by acid etching of the columns to form pointed needles with fine surface texture. The tips of all the electrodes are coated with Iridium oxide in order to communicate with neurons during the stimulation and recording from the brain.

Courtesy of Rohit Sharma

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

I was having breakfast when I noticed some strange looking mold on the wood of the table where I was sitting. I was only expecting an amorphous surface when looking at the mold with the scanning electron microscope but those blue crystals on the image appeared … What are those strange crystals on the mold? They seem to be some ancient elven ruins from the micro world we cannot see with our eyes…

Courtesy of Mr. Marcos Rosado , Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia

Taken by Magellan XHR SEM microscope

Cretaceous sedimentary rocks which occur on Snow Hill Island Antarctica, include spectacular mounds dominated by fossil bivalves. In amongst the bivalves are complex carbonate mineral cements, interpreted to have formed as a result of methane seeping through the sediments on the Cretaceous sea floor. The carbonate cements are complex but this QEMSCAN fieldscan image allows us to map the texture of polished thin sections of these spectacular rocks. Image size is 11mm square and mapped at 5 microns x-ray resolution. Image courtesy of Dr Duncan Pirrie and Dr Gavyn Rollinson, CSM,UOE,UK.

Courtesy of Dr Duncan Pirrie and Dr Gavyn Rollinson

Taken by QEMSCAN microscope

Corrosion product into a galvanized sheet steel after corrosion testing simulating corrosive marine environment.

Courtesy of Mr. FRANCISCO RANGEL , MCTI/INT

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Au islands grown on MoS2

Courtesy of Dr. Benedykt R. Jany , Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics Jagiellonian University Krakow

Taken by Quanta 3D microscope

This is the fracture surface of a snap-off blade after breaking off one of the segments.

Courtesy of Joern Leuthold

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

cross section image of a copper electrode

Courtesy of Mrs. Martina Dienstleder , ZFE Graz

Taken by DualBeam microscope

A lag screw thread extending spirally from the screw head to the tip of the screw

Courtesy of Maria Carbajo

Taken by Quanta 3D microscope