On a cold november morning I set foot in the clean room with the sole purpose of determining what the heck my $500 iPhone was really made of. This may not seem like a big deal at first but let me again describe what goes into taking SEM images. The sample is placed in a small chamber which is pumped down to an operating pressure of .00005torr. Normal atmosphere is 760torr…. So you are basically subjecting whatever you put in that camber to the vacuum of space. iPhone LCD, battery electronics…
