8 Dec 2008

infocus #52 December 2018 The Art of Electronics

The samples used in this article are from electronic circuits used in industry and heavy engineering. They consist of various capacitors, diodes, resistors and the micro circuits they are joined to. Sizes vary from 25mm diameter down to 2mm.

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.168

All these images were produced using a Leica DM 2700 Materials Microscope. The idea was to produce images using the different techniques this instrument has – polarisation with differential interference contrast (DIC), polarisation with darkfield, darkfield with DIC, and a combination of all three. To make this possible I combined both transmitted and reflected light, and utilised an extra darkfield condenser for the transmitted light source.

The final results were edited in Photoshop CS3 to create the artistic effects I had visualised.

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