In a message dated Fri, 13 Apr 2001 3:45:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Dave McGuire &lt;mcguire(a)neurotica.com&gt; writes: << U of M as in Maryland? I'm in Laurel. :-) So far I've found endless fascination in chips and power transistors. But, the most unbelievably fascinating thing that I've seen in that scope was something I thought would be boring...a blown tungsten lamp filament! I just did some quick scans of some of the electromicrographs I've done lately. They can be seen at http://www.neurotica.com/sem/images if you're interested. The blown tungsten lamp filament pics are filament-1.jpg and filament-2.jpg. Dave, Just out of curiosity, have you found any of that microart burned on I.C.'s yet? -Linc.