Could anyone recomend a microscope for silicon inspection?
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The microscope I want to find has to provide better images than these:
I've found two interesting models:
There are a few here that look good:
Is there anything I should be aware of?
I want to get crystal clear images of the silicon. Here is a 20 mega pixel example of what I can get by holding my digital camera to the eyepiece. Its fuzzy on the right because I had to "aim" at an angle into the eyepiece to avoid strange hazing. Warning...2mb JPEG
I'd like to also find a cheap indexing head, even if its only one axis. I'd like to take a picture of a 68000, 6502, 8088, etc. I think it would be fun to have the whole die on a 30x30" photo at 300dpi.
Thanks, Grant