Vinyl Disc Under Microscope

An electron microscope has been used to produce images of vinyl lps as well as cds dvds and blu ray discs at the micrometre level.

Vinyl disc under microscope.

Here s a link to the applied science video that i used as inspiration for. 21 everyday items put under the microscope reveal their hidden complexity. Microscope world recently took an old vinyl record and put it under a metallurgical microscope to see what the grooves looked like at high magnification. Today we look at a cd rom under a variety of magnifications up to an empty 2000x.

A image of a usaf 1951 resolution test pattern. C is a camera without objective lens and t is the test sample. This first vinyl record image was captured at 100x magnification using reflected light through the objective lens. Photo via zeiss microscopy.

Now you can see how the needle slides over the record at 1 400 speed. The footage of the needle running through the grooves was made by saving microscope images in an oscilloscope one at a time and then using photoshop to make a gif. I ll won t comment too much because these pictures really do speak for themselves. Optical microscope using dvd focusing lens l 1 and 2d translation stage s.

A 6 3 megapixel microscope digital camera was used to capture the images. His latest project saw him buy a vinyl record to put under electron microscope. Your vinyl record s grooves magnified 1 000x under an electron microscope. Photo via zeiss microscopy.

But still i think you ll agree that the results are stunning. Home wow 21 everyday items put under the microscope reveal their hidden complexity. What cds dvds blu rays look like under a microscope. It s crazy what every day objects look like when you look at them through a microscope.

The record in the first photo is one such case. All images courtesy of reddit. Under the microscope the grooves were embedded with crud and the lands the space between the grooves showed signs of extreme wear with hundreds of vinyl deflections along the edges of the grooves.