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A dangerous picnic nano-table

Author: Albert Folch (then postdoc at the Massachussets Institute of Technology with Prof. Martin Schmidt's group in the EECS Dept.).

 

This SEM micrograph shows a cantilever with a tip that is half-etched (the hat serves as a mask to produce the tip by under-etching). It looks like a small picnic table at the end of a precipice ...

 

For details, see A. Folch, M.S. Wrighton, and M.A. Schmidt, "Microfabrication of ultra-sharp Si tips on Si3N4 cantilevers for atomic force microscopy", Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 6, 303-306 (1997).

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