March 11, 2010

Vinyl Record Grooves Under an Electron Microscope

These are Electron Microscope images of record grooves from Chris Supranowitz, a researcher at The Insitute of Optics at the University of Rochester.

Vinyl Grooves 200x: Darkest area is top of groove (uncut material)

⇑ Vinyl Grooves Magnified 200x: Darkest area is top of groove (uncut material)

Vinyl Grooves 500x

⇑ Vinyl Grooves Magnified 500x

A Single Vinyl Groove 1000x

⇑ A Single Vinyl Groove Magnified 1000x

CD Pits Magnified 20000x

⇑ CD Pits Magnified 20,000x

Chris Supranowitz via grandgood

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