Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures

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Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures
All these pictures are from the book ' Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items.
These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye.




01 - A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip


02 - The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip


03 - Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin


04 - The surface of a strawberry





05 - Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue




06 - Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells


07 - The nylon hooks and loops of velcro


08 - Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains



09 -The weave of a nylon stocking



10 - The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth



11 - The head of a mosquito



12 - A human head louse clinging to a hair


Source: http://melodymaker.posterous.com/amazing-electron-microscope-shots



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