{"id":206,"date":"2009-10-28T20:11:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2009-10-28T20:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:11:40","slug":"so-what-are-those-microscopes-good-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2009\/so-what-are-those-microscopes-good-for","title":{"rendered":"So what are those microscopes good for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know I sell microscopes, and many of you know that those I sell aren&#8217;t optical microscopes.\u00c2\u00a0 You get bonus points if you remember that I sell <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nanosurf easyScan 2 FlexAFM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosurf.com\/default.cfm?curr_content=040230&#038;curr_navi=040230&#038;curr_page=1&#038;curr_mandant=nanosurf&#038;curr_paramlist=&#038;framedef=1&#038;spr=en \">atomic force microscopes<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nanosurf easyScan 2 STM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosurf.com\/default.cfm?curr_content=040210&#038;curr_navi=040210&#038;curr_page=1&#038;curr_mandant=nanosurf&#038;curr_paramlist=&#038;framedef=1&#038;spr=en \">scanning tunneling microscopes<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve just had an article published in <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Commercial Micro Manufacturing Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micromanu.com\/x\/default.html\">Commercial Micro Manufacturing Magazine<\/a> on the advantages of <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nanosurf Nanite Automated AFM for Quality Control\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micromanu.com\/x\/guideArchiveArticle.html?id=637\">using an atomic force microscope for surface roughness testing and quality control<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It elaborates the example of ball-point pens and the surface quality requirements for the balls that make up that point.\u00c2\u00a0 (Note, however, that if you&#8217;re the type that taps your notepad with your pen for emphasis you have no excuse if your pen stops working.\u00c2\u00a0 The metal wall that keeps the ball from falling out is very thin and easily bent out of shape!)<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy reading this sort of more practical stuff about my job I&#8217;ll be glad to post more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know I sell microscopes, and many of you know that those I sell aren&#8217;t optical microscopes.\u00c2\u00a0 You get bonus points if you remember that I sell atomic force microscopes and scanning tunneling microscopes.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve just had an article published in Commercial Micro Manufacturing Magazine on the advantages of using an atomic force microscope for surface roughness testing and quality control.\u00c2\u00a0 It elaborates the example of ball-point pens and the surface quality requirements for the balls that make up that point.\u00c2\u00a0 (Note, however, that if you&#8217;re the type that taps your notepad with your pen for emphasis you have no excuse if your pen stops working.\u00c2\u00a0 The metal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}