The image of the dragonfly represents a variety of things across traditional cultures. While Swedish folklore holds that the devil uses dragonflies to weigh people’s souls, for example, dragonflies had been used for traditional medicinal purposes in China and Japan.
These swift creatures are quite elusive, so it is no wonder Aaron Thompson from Nanjing International School submitted a dragonfly sample to ASPEX for a close up inspection under our Scanning Electron Microscopes.
ASPEX Corporation performed a manual image analysis of the dragonfly using the ASPEX Personal SEM eXplorer.
The customer had requested that ASPEX provide images, so reports were prepared using ASPEX Personal Image Print II (PIPTM).
Secondary electron detector (SED) images were collected under high vacuum conditions and 20 KeV. The sample was gold coated to eliminate sample charging.
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