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Making a nanofilm

View inside a vacuum chamber or a growing nanofilm

View inside a vacuum chamber while a nanofilm is being grown. The blue glow is the metal gadolinium being evaporated. The bright yellow is a heater, where the gadolinium nitride film is growing.

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