Colloidal Silica Crystal Seeded on Ion Beam Milled Glass Substrate

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Created 2/14/2002 6:00:00 AM

Leica SP-2 confocal microscope reflection mode image of monodisperse rhodamine core silica microspheres (1um) spontaneously arrranged from suspension on a pattern which has been ion-beam milled into the surface of a glass coverslip. This arrangement is designed to form the first layer of a crystaline three dimensional structure.

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• Michael Bevan , Ph.D., Beckman Fellow, Beckman Institute