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X-rays

Now I have an xray machine to play with at work, I can take photographs of the insides of things. I shall make full use of this. Here’s an old transistor to start with.

Xray image of an old Mullard OC44 transistor

Image details : Mullard OC44 PNP Germanium transistor, glass envelope. 90kV polychromatic xrays, filtered with 1.5mm Al and 0.2 mm Cu. CsI scintillator, 6 sec exposure.

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2 Responses to “X-rays”

  1. Alan Yates Says:
    February 25th, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    Awesome!

    /me wants an x-ray machine!

    My current source it way too dim for imaging within practical exposure times and is not a very good point source.

  2. dtl Says:
    March 3rd, 2010 at 9:31 am

    Alan, if you ever make it to London come drop by the lab. Bring stuff to xray. The system I’m building now should have 5um resolution.

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