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There are no dyes or pigments in this microscope image - it’s a thin clear film on a blank mirrorlike surface, and all the colors come from the interference of light waves.  It’s the same effect that produces the rainbow colors in thin soap bubbles, or on a
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Thin-film effects, viewed under a microscope, imitate the night sky.  What you see here is a flat surface that has a few defects on it (probably pieces of dust), covered with a thin, transparent film.  According to the thickness of the film, you get different colors reflected back - this
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Soap bubble-like rainbow colors means that this sample has a thin film of something on it, just like a soap bubble or oily puddle.  The colors change quickly, so there’s probably a ton of variation in the thickness of the coating - in fact, the rainbow stripes are packed
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A dream landscape, formed naturally by defects in a thin polymer film.  This phenomenon is called Newton’s Rings, and is the same sort of thin-film effect that makes soap bubbles iridescent.
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Newton’s rings put on a microscopic show. This is a microscope image, about 20x, of some bright bands of color that appeared on the surface of one of my samples.  They’re formed from a colorless film of residue left behind after some IPA dried on my sample -
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Here’s the jagged edge where my sample broke. I blame the carbon tape, which is usually my friend, a nice way to get rid of those pesky extra electrons, and a way to stop my sample from falling off the holder in the electron microscope.  Except this time, the
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Colorful flames and smoke? This is actually Newton’s Rings again, a colorful microscopic pattern that appeared on my sample of laser material after some isopropyl alcohol dried funny.  It must have left a thin film of something behind, and that produced rainbow patterns in the same way a thin
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It’s a serene sight - a nicely formed wall of laser material (semiconductor InGaAsP, to be exact) stands on a smooth glassy plain. I added the color - it’s not actually cold here.  It’s inhospitable in a different sense, though: There isn’t any air.  For the
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