All of us at Flylogic want to wish all of our wonderful readers a wonderful new year as we enter into 2009! We will make an effort to post more frequently on the blog this year and appologize for lack of content last year.
Let’s start the year off right! Who out there can guess what the image below is?
All of you were really fast to guess the above image so we decided to append a few more interesting pictures onto this article for your viewing pleasure.
Could these be mushrooms in the forrest of the smurfs?
These appear to be snails but snails of what and they are not the same!
We won’t reply to questions until Friday to give more time for people to throw out guesses.
Happy New Year!
I am just taking a stab in the dark here, but is it some sort of laser, or a microscope?
Thank you, flylogic. OMG! – Did you buy a FIB?! – How much did you pay for it?
Just a guess (using rot13 to avoid giving the guess away to other people who don’t want any kind of spoilers: Gur punzore bs n tvmzb hfrq gb perngr n sbphfrq vba ornz
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Hmmmm, seems to be a scanning electron microscope.
wow could be the working end of the Large Hadron Collider for all i know!
well there are red, yellow, green and blue fluids going in so maybe its a printer? prints colour masks on imaging chips? though it could be dye for lasers… that would be a cool thing for doing stuff… :S also someones mum is missing her egg beater!
meh good luck with the guessing everyone!
Wow! You guys seem to have all hit it on the nail or close to it. It’s the chamber closeup of a Focused Ion-Beam Workstation. The beam is shot down through the upside down cone, the needles are used to provide gases for various needs of the task at hand (a/k/a the edit) and the spaceship ball is the CDEM (the electron detector that gives you an image).
Congratulations and everyone who posted before this post, if you email us your address we will send you some Flylogic Shwag.
Happy New Year!
Hehe… much harder this time.
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Congrats on the FIB! May you not need it for the reasons I do!
What email address would you like us to send this email to? Instead of just randomly trying one
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I want my 386 back….
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w5vo,
You must be a FIB operator ;-P
Mushrooms-
This was a bond pad with a wire that had been broken off and there was not enough metal left to rebond it so the next idea was to drop small blocks of Tungsten across the gold bond to the pad and it worked but since it was ground, someone went a little crazy (and also wanted to play) since Tungsten is cheaper than Platinum.
Snails-
Comparing deposition of Tungsten vs Platinum deposit across a different bond pad / wire connection that was not good but risky to rebond.
Trade offs can be seen at the 45 degree tilt snail image-
Tungsten is the stronger of the two metals and requires very high beam current and time. End result is a solid connection less likely to be broken.
Platinum deposits very quickly and is also very soft. It’s nice having capability of both metals as each one has it’s place for device edits.
Give us your address all who got the puzzles and we will send out the schwagg this next week. Email to tech@flylogic.net
Congratulations!
I do circuit design, and I have had the misfortune of needing a FIB operation. I got to see the FIB in use – very cool. They are very expensive ‘toys’ to maintain.