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Tag: newton's rings

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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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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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Islands! Actually, it’s Newton’s Rings again, a rainbow effect caused when white light shines on really thin films of transparent stuff.  In this case, I don’t know what the transparent stuff is.  The material beneath is semiconductor laser material.  I was trying to clean it with alcohol,
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It’s too bad that whenever I get interesting images, it’s usually a sign that something’s gone wrong. In this case, the rainbow rings means that there’s some junk left on my sample - this is residue left behind from IPA (now, that’s isopropyl alcohol, not
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