Making the World's Smallest Play Button (2^12 subscriber special)

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4 жыл бұрын

For this project I got the chance to show off one of my favorite tools from work, the Focused Ion Beam! In this video, I use the FIB to 3d print and etch away material at the nanoscale, making a youtube play button that's only 1 hundredth of a millimeter across. It's made of an amorphous mix of platinum and carbon, and it's so small you need an electron microscope to see it properly. Enjoy!
Also: Thanks to all my subscribers!
Also also: Leave comments for new fabrication techniques for the 2^13 button!
Also also also: I started a Facebook page for AlphaPhoenix! Follow the page and share with your friends! / alphaphoenixchannel
That was a lot of exclamation marks… - here's the extra stuff:
#WorldRecord #Nanoscale #Microscope
Filmed in the Materials department at UCSB with permission.
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@why_though 2 жыл бұрын

The older I get the more I learn that science is about plugging million dollar machines into 20 year old computers...

@tobilos_gaming Жыл бұрын

@aeonremnant Жыл бұрын

Oh man you have no idea how deep that rabbit hole goes. The amount of horrifically outdated hardware saturating the scientific market is absolutely hilarious. No 12th gen Intel or Ryzen 5000, none of that. Don’t even consider DDR5 or PCI-E 4.0+, none of that. NAH BOY, WE’RE DOING AN I7 2600, WOOO! TEN GENERATIONS OUT OF DATE!!!

@clapanse Жыл бұрын

@@aeonremnant i7? Forget i7, I've seen a number of machines running expensive scientific or engineering equipment that still have floppy drives.

@aeonremnant Жыл бұрын

@@clapanse Yike. xD

@indianumberonecountry Жыл бұрын

@@clapanse why is that? Wouldnt it be more efficient by time and money standards to upgrade the hardware and software? Seems silly to use outdated equipment like that

@dapz 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Idk what else to say, but this was super interesting to watch

@RENO_K 2 жыл бұрын

I hope to see a 2¹⁶ play button soon

@BobAndrews69 2 жыл бұрын

What are you doing here

@ianthethird7955 2 жыл бұрын

dapz heyyy

@dapz 2 жыл бұрын

@@BobAndrews69 This channel just vibes with my interests

@BobAndrews69 2 жыл бұрын

@@dapz it really is a good channel

@brendanchen1317 2 жыл бұрын

How has KZfaq hidden such quality scientific content from me?

@Upioti 2 жыл бұрын

Because... "Amogus Troll 12313IQ *3:00 AM* WITH MY GIRFELIEND AND FRIENDS *DONT DO THIS AT HOME* *COPS CALLED* FUNNY MOMENTS AMONG US" Gives them more money

@p6nj 2 жыл бұрын

@@Upioti amongous

@fjs1111 Жыл бұрын

@@p6nj a fungus?

@jannikheidemann3805 Жыл бұрын

@@fjs1111 Yes, a certain type of nasty brain fungus.

@thecolorblindphotographer2511 4 жыл бұрын

Man, this is quite amazing. I really hope you reach a larger audience! Endure, eventually the Algorithm will choose you!!

@rytan4516 2 жыл бұрын

I come here from the Algorithm. It appears It chose him!

@kit9556 2 жыл бұрын

And youtube algorith brought me here.

@bekr3473 2 жыл бұрын

I come from the vacuume seal gasket video wich was suggested by the algorithm.

@niam. 2 жыл бұрын

gerrymandering video for me

@Dhirajkumar-ls1ws 2 жыл бұрын

seems like algo is recommending his channel now.

@LeoStaley 3 жыл бұрын

When are we getting our 2^14 video? You're In my top 5 favorite science youtubers at this point, and I've been collecting science youtubers in my subscriptions for 7 years, with easily 300 or 400 creators in the list.

@AlphaPhoenixChannel 3 жыл бұрын

It’s all filmed but I’m looking for time to edit - I’m wrapping up my dissertation in the next few weeks and then moving, so unfortunately KZfaq is taking a back burner. Glad you’re enjoying the channel! In terms of using gallium ions, the liquid does help I think, but the filament is heated so more options than gallium exist. I think gallium may have a favorable ionization something... energy or ratio of singly ionized species or something - don’t quote me on that one though...

@haliplays8971 2 жыл бұрын

Hey can you list some of those science you tubers down I’ve also been collecting them lol I’m a sucker for knowledge

@haliplays8971 2 жыл бұрын

@@LeoStaley thank you so much I’ll make sure to go check them out!

@hullinstruments 2 жыл бұрын

@@haliplays8971 how could you forget a few of these…? 😁 Applied science, Marco reps, fermi lab, breaking taps, tech ingredients, thought emporium, les’s lab, zenodilodon, Photonic induction, smarter every day, strange parts, William Osman, Carl Willis, physics anonymous, Veritasium, physics girl, new mind, stuff made here, The engineer guy, Steve mould and countless others

@nekomimicatears 2 жыл бұрын

@@hullinstruments jesus christ you forgot electroboom

@kit9556 2 жыл бұрын

Waiting for this to be in Daily Dose of Internet for the world’s smallest youtube playbutton.

@sgdadfgdfgadbdfbd 2 жыл бұрын

ah yes content stealing

@demonsluger 2 жыл бұрын

@@sgdadfgdfgadbdfbd The most preferred and easiet way to make youtube content.

@zyansheep 2 жыл бұрын

@@demonsluger and reddit content!

@wowsuchhandle 2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes basically meme compilation channel.

@nathanbush4727 2 жыл бұрын

I was legitimately shocked when I subscribed and saw less than 100k subscribers. This channel deserves so many more! Let’s make this man make many more play buttons!

@AlphaPhoenixChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Man I don’t know is what it is now cause I’m still in bed and it’s been rocketing but a week ago it was 18k

@OCOWA_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlphaPhoenixChannel I'm actually amazed you're still only at 230k right now. Keep up the good work, you're already ubiquitous in my mind as one of the educational content creators. If I could invest in your future success, I would.

@misterlocapone6604 2 жыл бұрын

Craziest quality ever. Mind blowing

@franteryda4730 3 жыл бұрын

Steve mould sent me. Otherwise who knows when I would have found this channel!

@GRBtutorials 3 жыл бұрын

Same. Though now I realise I’ve actually already watched one of his videos, the soldering iron fumes video. IDK why I didn’t subscribe then (or is KZfaq messing with my subscriptions again?)

@gervaiscurrie6675 3 жыл бұрын

Same here - strange that such a great channel seems to almost 'hidden' by YT..

@unvergebeneid 3 жыл бұрын

@@gervaiscurrie6675 ikr!

@daphenomenalz4100 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@bradtito3309 3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@sti_clone3840 2 жыл бұрын

This is more that what some channels would do for their 1 million sub goal lol

@bowenheinrich 3 жыл бұрын

came here from steve mould. staying here forever

@Empolitano 3 жыл бұрын

Same here!! Hahaah

@aniksamiurrahman6365 2 жыл бұрын

Knurd!

@GediMini 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, this is some great content. Get ready to make a lot more of these buttons :)

@AtariWow 2 жыл бұрын

Next one will need top be seen from space

@Mortomi 2 жыл бұрын

you just hit my recommended, lets hope you get picked by the algorithm today!

@unvergebeneid 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is criminally undersubscribed. Proof that the algorithm doesn't know what it's doing.

@TheBrohomie 2 жыл бұрын

I cant imagine how expensive that piece of equipment is lol

@hchskxnbcj 2 жыл бұрын

they are using this crappy keyboard and such a machine.

@TheBrohomie 2 жыл бұрын

@@hchskxnbcj if it aint broken dont fix it lol

@awesomestuff9715 2 жыл бұрын

i did some quick research, and buying that machine used would cost around 300k usd

@JaredConnell 2 жыл бұрын

@@hchskxnbcj they couldn't afford a new keyboard at that price

@anelpasic5232 2 жыл бұрын

@@hchskxnbcj No need to re-invent the wheel.

@fernandobustosjimenez9949 Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely nuts!! Man, human intelligence never ceases to amaze me. The fact that we have machines that can carve 250 atoms wide letters is completely fascinating to me. Thank u so much for the way you transmit all this cool knoweledge and make it accesible to all of us. Keep it up!!!

@GuildOfCalamity 3 жыл бұрын

Love seeing that good 'ol Windows XP lab software!

@Delibro Жыл бұрын

Hahhaha I just searched the comments if someone else is coming up with this :D

@crazyotto3126 2 жыл бұрын

I know nobody will read this, but I actually worked on a even smaller scale not so long ago. I had the chance to work on an electronlithographie machine, which was capable to "print" structures with an diameter of 2 nm. Of course i used this multi million euro machine which is one of the most advanced systems in the world to print a smiley. But unfortunally one can just manipulate the upper most layer on the probe, and has to do some chemical processing to be able to see the result. But also, great video and good explanation :)

@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 2 жыл бұрын

I have always wondered how nanoscale things were created, this is incredible.

@NicolasCorder 2 жыл бұрын

I discovered your channel a few days ago and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT, you are hilarious, smart, and teach things in a really easy to understand way. Love it man, I watch each one

@markwhi1 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on reaching 2^12! Best of luck with your studies, and I hope the time intervals are shrinking as your subscriber count grows... looking forward to 2^13!

@coyotedomino 3 жыл бұрын

this is one of the coolest things i’ve ever seen, for real. and educational too :0

@GlawberOliveira 2 жыл бұрын

I just can’t fathom why this channel doesn’t have more subscribers. This is amazing science!

@Webtroter 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy!!! I remember that intro. Watched it years ago. Happy to get here again, thanks to steve Mould.

@TimCortesi 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love academia... super impressive equipment hooked up to an ancient PC running Windows XP.

@capturethephotons2078 4 жыл бұрын

We love your channel!! we need some more awsome content!! Love the polaris stabilization and timelapse stuff. The roll off Observatory is amazing!

@jimwednt1229 2 жыл бұрын

WOW ! Technology being used here is the culmination of hundreds of years of the greatest advancements in science and technology . The epitome of all of it !

@rqlk Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of someone who documented his job working with locomotives on his KZfaq channel. I find insight into unique occupations really interesting, keep doing this

@Variety_Pack 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Susan, for sending me this channel. I want this guy to blow up so he has to make a bunch of play buttons, and I want to see just what wild methods he can come up with!

@BottleMakesStuff 2 жыл бұрын

Super cool video! My day job (and what pays the bills) is assembling and testing scanning electron microscopes. I have a lot of fun doing drift and resolution tests at 500,000 times magnification on ~1nm features. That FIB and GIS look like a lot of fun too!

@evan1337dune 2 жыл бұрын

This was a really amazing video, you should have at least a million subscribers by now with this kind of stuff

@berttorpson2592 2 жыл бұрын

This is awesome. The algorithm knows me and knows you. So nice to meet you

@elcascomenda96 2 жыл бұрын

I love you, been wasting 3 days of my life binging your videos and I love it, hope you go viral :)

@sbjuice622 Жыл бұрын

I use the same system every day mainly for imaging, and did not know you could import a bitmap for patterning...so many ideas. Love your channel!!!

@nirvana613 2 жыл бұрын

Discovered this channel just now and I can already tell this is going to be a good one. Subscribed and looking forward to some more awesome content !

@UnipornFrumm 3 жыл бұрын

its so small you cant see it,but it is there ,it exists what i wonder if you can in 1 year or 2 to put this back in the electron beam miroscope to see if anything changed,if it faded or degraded,awesome video

@larryscott3982 2 жыл бұрын

“Now we’re cooking with gas” How many viewers remember that TV ad?

@AlphaPhoenixChannel 2 жыл бұрын

that was an ad? lol

@bluethumbbuttoneek9465 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought it went " now we're cooking with cresco"

@larryscott3982 2 жыл бұрын

@@bluethumbbuttoneek9465 No Imperial Margarine !!

@ufffd 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlphaPhoenixChannel it was part of an ad campaign by gas companies! Adam Ragusea just did a deep dive on this.

@JadianRadiator Жыл бұрын

4:16 Thanks for reminding me of something I heard about about an electron microscope. Someone had accidentally chipped off a piece of the "emitter." Which had ended up increasing the efficiency and quality of the image.

@ohchristusername 2 жыл бұрын

Glad that this was recommended to me, deserves more views!

@jero37 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like I missed 2^15, but it's nice being an early part of 2^16.

@BasedBidoof 2 жыл бұрын

woah, that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen on youtube

@ylette Жыл бұрын

I love videos about how advanced scientific instruments work.

@anthonyd.8067 2 жыл бұрын

You should be up to the 2^20s already. Great channel am excited to watch it grow exponentially.

@renzokerk1999 2 жыл бұрын

Wow i think that was the best subscriber special I have seen so far. Really nice :)

@mumiemonstret 3 жыл бұрын

If the carbon atoms are in no particular order I think you can just as well call them diamond particles. And you totally deserve a diamond-platinum play button!

@jannikheidemann3805 Жыл бұрын

Diamond is a very ordered structure: a crystal.

@antongolovko1149 2 жыл бұрын

Truly wow, amazing video! You have really good quality. Just keep up the good work, you will eventually start to get more views.

@kimmy_future4265 3 жыл бұрын

That is really amazing! Congrats!

@lukeheinrich3749 2 жыл бұрын

Bro this is so cool you need way more views! Keep up the dope vids!!

@freakingramses488 2 жыл бұрын

You’ve been popping up like crazy after your algorithm video, I’m so happy you came into my life; subscription and binge watching time.

@armybirds 2 жыл бұрын

same boat here, also a brockhampton fan? let's goooo

@Craichy 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t remember how I found you, but im very glad I did. You are very entertaining and creative. Thanks so much

@juanmanuelcalderon4966 3 жыл бұрын

This video si completely amazing your videos are really well produced, you’ll be doing more buttons if you keep up like that

@joachimsingh2929 2 жыл бұрын

Wow what a gold mine of a KZfaq channel!

@maybeonastick 2 жыл бұрын

10:27 This really looks like it's photoshopped on the moons surface. I like it

@keldanchapman7419 2 жыл бұрын

How am I only discovering this now, this stuff is awesome!

@GoldSrc_ 2 жыл бұрын

I hope you get more subscribers, I think the first video I watched from you was the iridium flares one and you had just a few subs. But it seems that the algorithm finally saw you, good luck and keep up the good work.

@AlphaPhoenixChannel 2 жыл бұрын

I've seen your name in the comments a bunch. Thanks! That iridium flare video is a deep cut lol - I think they deorbited them all in the intervening years unfortunately

@tonybooth1759 2 жыл бұрын

This video / channel should have millions of views 👏👏👏

@MarkRLeach 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! I am an organic/organometallic chemist so I was fascinated to see the cyclopentadienyl Pt complexes used in this way. Well Cool. I also shoot a bit of astrophotography using Sony a6000 + Samyang 12mm. Keep up the good work, with videos of this quality your channel will soon explode with numbers!

@akaHarvesteR 3 жыл бұрын

You sir, deserve a lot more bits in that sub count!

@skivvy3565 Жыл бұрын

You do excellent work, keep it up buddy

@SamirPatnaik 2 жыл бұрын

What an absolute madlad!

@MeatEatingSissy 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I found your channel. You have a good attitude

@TheQuicksilver115 2 жыл бұрын

This is freaking awesome!

@cliffx7 2 жыл бұрын

You’re gonna hit 1 million subscribers by the end of next year if not sooner

@anthonydesouza9983 2 жыл бұрын

Can we all appreciate the effort that went into this video for only 4096 subscribers?

@covodex516 3 жыл бұрын

Im glad Steve Mould linked me to you, such an interesting channel!

@shane349 3 жыл бұрын

First video I watch and it's using the systems I fix... great vid and great intro description

@AlphaPhoenixChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Haha cool! Do you work for FEI or at a user facility like this?

@shane349 3 жыл бұрын

Work for their service agents in Canada as a field service eng, they actually got bought out by Thermo Fischer a few years back

@vladthe_cat 2 жыл бұрын

I love powers of 2, ive memorized the first 14 from simple experience

@Caffein780 2 жыл бұрын

UCSB! Wow...I grew up in Ventura and Oxnard and use to party there at UCSB.

@Lucius.Hercules 2 жыл бұрын

i recently subscribed after seeing one of the previous 2^x celebration videos but for some reason i saw the scan of the button in the background and thought maybe it was just some special black and white photography or something ?? but no this was far more intriguing and amazingly tiny!

@debajyotimajumder8503 2 жыл бұрын

pretty cool...loved it man

@AlmightyAddman 4 жыл бұрын

A great video and effort to explain the equipment I build and test for my career :)

@AlphaPhoenixChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! FIBs are awesome tools...

@guser436 2 жыл бұрын

100k subs soon bro I'm calling it, 300k by end of year

@bowenhouser5423 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy how small you can make that! I imagine the material doesn't cost much, but I'm sure the machine does.

@runringlee8100 2 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the 2^20 special. The day will come. And it will be soon.

@lexihaley2887 2 жыл бұрын

You're so engaging and skilled

@Scrogan 4 жыл бұрын

Oh man. It’s pretty interesting to see how the electron microscope sees things differently, especially how it’s “lighting up” the area with its own electrons and causing unconventional shadows to appear. Makes me wonder if by measuring the deflected electrons’ energies you could process the image with false colour. Be pretty tough to beat this for your next milestone, perhaps a silicon MEMS play button or light emitting/otherwise doped semiconductor play button for the small scale. On the large scale there are a fair variety of interesting chemical processes and unusual CNCs that you could attempt. Even growing a plant into a play button could be an interesting task.

@AlphaPhoenixChannel 4 жыл бұрын

You can totally process for the energy of electrons coming back - it's the reason most modern SEMs come with a bunch of different detector geometries and energy sensitivities. you can extract all kinds of information! If you want to get really fancy, you can look at the x-rays that come off the material when you hit it with the beam, because those can fingerprint specific elements. search for "EDS map SEM" and you'll get all kinds of awesome shots of compositionally-colormapped micrographs. As for the weird shadows and whatnot, SEMs are way cool in that they form an image with only one pixel's worth of sensor - the electron beam just only lights up one tiny spot on the sample at a time, and one by one, the beam lights up a new spot, the value is read off the "single pixel" detector, and the beam moves to a new spot. it's why the screen refresh was always top-to-bottom, it literally has to scan over the whole image to see it. I thought about making a camera like that (laser on a gimbal and a single photodiode detector feed into an audio recorder or something) but haven't gotten around to it yet.

@lunaponta594 2 жыл бұрын

we need to normalize 2^12 subscribers specials, this is amazing

@ReidVorbach Жыл бұрын

excited for what etching wizardry will be pulled off the 2^{~18} play button

@CharlesVanNoland 2 жыл бұрын

Never heard "now we're cooking with gas" be used in such a punny way: literally cooking w/ platinum gas.

@MitchGriff709 3 жыл бұрын

Saw your comment on reddit and used your link then I liked and subbed

@tylerorourke4790 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, can you explain why the platinum deposit for the background did not cover up the round imperfections on the copper?

@Zappygunshot Жыл бұрын

The engineering on this is ridiculous. It's one thing to capture electrons blasted through a surface so small you could destroy it by breathing on it, and it's another thing entirely to etch stuff into that and deposit material onto it on that kind of scale; but the most impressive thing I feel is the fact that that machine can pull a vacuum so complete that it practically eliminates all interference, and that you can create an environment wherein that little piece of copper has only _very_ minute amounts of "bits" stuck to it. Given the amount of random crap that floats around in the air at all times, that's a practically impossible ask, and yet, here it is, in all its glory, for us to see and you to work with. Science is nuts man.

@SealFredy5 2 жыл бұрын

Got to use one of these during undergrad. There was a Helios and a NanoLab version available. Definitely impressive machines. However, they were slightly less impressive than the two Titan TEM machines they have.

@VigiHunter 2 жыл бұрын

Green screening you to the electron microscope view gave me a good laugh :D Amazing!

@jucom756 2 жыл бұрын

Let's give this amazing channel a 2²⁰ video by 2022.

@adws5696 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@JonWhitton 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic

@Wardztv 2 жыл бұрын

Dude I’m geeking out rn

@patrickmaartense7772 2 жыл бұрын

cant wait for the 2^15

@L-udo 2 жыл бұрын

This Needs More Views!!!

@bierfassner2253 2 жыл бұрын

That’s pretty awesome not gonna lie

@cpage4340 2 жыл бұрын

The algorithm has chosen you today.

@bob80808 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much did this cost xD Amazing!!

@peterw1534 2 жыл бұрын

That was pretty cool

@Abraarashraf 2 жыл бұрын

Hey nice videos man. Just found you channel good luck

@Caffein780 2 жыл бұрын

Oh and this microscope is awesome as well!

@MichaelShaw_vk2hms 3 жыл бұрын

Allow my subscription to contribute towards 2^13!

@MichaelShaw_vk2hms 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wait... this milestone has been reached. Here's to 2^14 subscribers then!

@AlphaPhoenixChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Haha I was about to say - I think I’ll be filming an impromptu play button this weekend. Today was wild... thanks for coming along!

@agentgreengnome 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@loganflowers400 2 жыл бұрын

i am genuinely excited to subscribe to you

@Povilaz 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome