SCIENCE AS ART
The uphill battle of out-of-plane growth
Mark Aarts, AMOLF, The Netherlands
Electrodeposited copper islands on gold, imaged by atomic force microscopy. The original topography is transformed so that the color scale represents the local slope, making the (111) faceted structures “pop” as equal-angle-planes.
A Finalist from the Science as Art competition at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting.
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