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Sam Jewell - 'Staircase for an Ant'

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 the cracked sapphire surface taken with an optical microscope (100X magnification).

 

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Uploaded on February 3, 2011
Taken on February 3, 2011