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Etching small patterns in Glass

Huygens Optics · demo · Watch on YouTube

Semiconductors & chip manufacturingChemistryMaterials science

What it is

Huygens Optics experiments with etching tiny patterns in glass, covering hydrofluoric acid risks, buffered oxide etch, photoresist and chromium masks, and laser-induced etching. It ends with attempts at microscopic Tesla valves.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a highly informative look at micro-etching glass and the smallest Tesla valves.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “There is an youtube video[1] by the excellent channel Huygens Optics”

    Attempt at a microscopic Tesla valve in etched glass

    osamagirl69, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Tesla valve”

  2. “Also seconding the Huygen's optics video”

    Huygens Optics Tesla valve video

    showerst, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Tesla valve”

  3. “on the bright side I've found something I have not been desensitized to no matter how many time I've watched it.”

    thrown_22, 2022-08 · Recommendation · in “Perfluorocubane is (as you would expect) weird”

  4. “The video on micro etching glass with HF is highly informative on this post...”

    Informative on micro etching glass with HF

    samstave, 2024-03 · Recommendation · in “High-speed microscale 3D printing”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: hydrofluoric acid, tesla valve, microfabrication, optics, laser etching

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