Dear Foundry Community,
From all of us here at the Foundry, we wish health and happiness for you and your families this Holiday season. May the coming year be merry and bright!
All the Best,
Andy
Andrew Minor
Interim Director of the Molecular Foundry
About the Artwork
This year’s holiday card features artwork submitted to our 2024 NanoArt Contest. Like NanoArt? Check out and download our 2024 NanoArt Calendar!
“Sunset in the Atomic Alps”, submitted by Hudson Shih as part of work by Hudson Shih, Seung Sae Hong, and Yayoi Takamura from UC Davis – Atomic terrace steps on the (001) facet of a single-crystal membrane of strontium cobalt oxide (Sr2Co2O5 ). These steps arise due to a small angle of miscut relative to the facet (<0.5 °). If the miscut angle were exactly 0 degrees, no steps would be present! These single crystal oxide membranes provide an ideal material platform for plan-view transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging at the National Center for Electron Microscopy because they have millimeter lateral dimensions, but nanometer scale thicknesses. With TEM of Sr2Co2O5 membranes, oxygen ion diffusion can be observed within the crystal lattice.
