#silicontrivance

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First post ^___^ Redraw of a photo of myself. Backdrop is a picture I took of my professor’s lab.

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“Butterflies and Beamsplitters”

llustration I made for one of my favorite professors who taught me about laser cooling, which blew my mind. The glassware and lasers are inspired by the insane amount of optics he had in his lab. The body pattern is based off a graph he made in one of his papers.

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“Silicontrivance”

A collage I made of various photos I took and drawings I made in my senior year, inspired by my time in my school’s nanofabrication facility. I wanted to make something to commemorate how special of an experience it was

From top left to bottom right:

TOP ROW

Objective lens of an ASML PAS5500 stepper

nMOS transistors my lab partners and I made

Waveguide entity + ASML alignment mark

MS Paint drawing of a dry etching tool I was trained on first

MIDDLE

ASML PAS5500 stepper + a wafer I made on it + a sketch of the SEM

Probe tips

Plasma porthole I drew

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image I took

BOTTOM

Another wafer I made

My favorite JEOL SEM

Me in my bunnysuit with a vacuum chamber head

Danger sign

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Condensed Matter Jester. This was a digital brainstorm for a painting I made. All the patterns are taken from condensed matter physics papers. Pose was taken from a jester statue

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Been thinking a lot about Kirby Morgan dive helmets. I think they are utterly gorgeous, and would love to own one, alas, even used ones go for thousands. Drew one instead to satiate this desire temporarily. Full image and references and more rambling below the cut.

Very dronecore! I’ve come to realize that I’m very drawn to scuba diving because of the droneplay aspects of the gear—sleek or robotic looking suits, big buglike helmets and goggles, tubing, and respirators. Neoprene wetsuits are also such fun to wear, I adore the ones with bright striping for warding off sharks and other predators.

Here are some pictures of them I really love! The navy diver image is the first one that alerted me to their existence.

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Giant catlike robot, a redraw of a character from 4 years ago. She serves as the bodyguard for my other character I have yet to share here, Dr. Feyn.