Sam Jewell - 'Drop in the steel ocean'
My 4th year project has been to investigate replication of micron scale features in steel using a sapphire crystal. This new manufacturing process has the potential to revolutionise manufacturing of MEMS and Microfluidics. This image shows a steel surface which has been melted by laser light, and disturbed so that ripples have formed in the surface. It then froze again instantaneously, freezing the ripples in place. This was taken with a white light interferometry microscope, and the image generated by this microscope.
Sam Jewell - 'Drop in the steel ocean'
My 4th year project has been to investigate replication of micron scale features in steel using a sapphire crystal. This new manufacturing process has the potential to revolutionise manufacturing of MEMS and Microfluidics. This image shows a steel surface which has been melted by laser light, and disturbed so that ripples have formed in the surface. It then froze again instantaneously, freezing the ripples in place. This was taken with a white light interferometry microscope, and the image generated by this microscope.