What's happening there?
A volcanic eruption? A forced landing of UFO?
What's happening over the mountain?! This image shows diffraction pattern observed in the 0.5 µm thick single crystal Si thin foil specimen. The area looks like a mountain is actually vacuum and no specimen there.
The vivid flash of lights are the KIKUCHI LINE which can be observed only in the thick single specimen.
At 57th photo contest hosted by the Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy in 2001.
Condition
Specimen: Si single-crystal thin
Instrument: Transmission Electron Microscope H-9000NAR
Magnification: × 3,000
Accelerating voltage: 300 kV
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*This work was presented at the "photo contest" hosted by the Japanese Society
of Microscopy.
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