Image Of The Week - 09/01/2006



The images above (the main image and the inset in the lower right corner) show a three-dimensional polymer that has been designed in the shape of the Lehigh University logo, replicated from an etched silicon substrate at the nanoscale. This process was completed to demonstrate the effectiveness of techniques and equipment developed in Lehigh's Manufacturing Science Laboratory, in partnership with Boy Machines of Exton, PA, and Lehigh's Sherman Fairchild Center for Solid State Studies. The end goal of such research is to enable more efficient and effective methods of injection-molding techniques for the manufacture of nanoscale devices with application in a host of areas such as telecommunications, computing, biomedicine, and environmental sensing.

Each letter in the word LEHIGH is, at 15 micrometers, roughly the size of a human blood cell. In the inset picture in the bottom right of the image-- an even closer magnification of the Lehigh shield -- the tiny hashmarks represent a 500 nm (nanometer) measurement.

Image provided by: Aleksandar Angelov (aka3@lehigh.edu), Floyd C. Miller (fcm1@lehigh.edu), and John P. Coulter (jc0i@lehigh.edu)

Copyright © 2006 Aleksandar Angelov, Floyd C. Miller, John P. Coulter and Lehigh University. This image and information may not be reproduced without the prior consent of this website administrator or the image author.