MNE 2009 Micro Nano Graph Contest
“ A good Micrograph is worth more than the
MegaByte it consumes.”
Entries Presented by Dr.
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The
rules include the following:
• Entries have to be of a single image taken with a microscope and not
significantly altered.
• There is no restriction with respect to the subject matter.
• Electron and ion micrographs have to be black and white.
In
2009, 47 entries were submitted. There were many outstanding micrographs. The
work represented in the submitted micrographs covered a wide range of fields
including micro mechanical, photonic, and integrated circuit fabrication,
chemical and dry etching, laser optics, carbon nanotube structures, carbon
nanotube growth experiments, biological samples, material science
experiments and, of course, e-beam, ion beam, and photo lithography
experiments.
The
panel of judges who selected the award winners were:
•
• Toshiyuki Horiuchi – MNC
• Frank Schellenberg- EIPBN
The
Awards are
• First Prize
• Second Prize
• Third Prize
The
judges also selected 6 Honorable
Mentions.
All 2009 Entries
(with original titles)
Judges
exercised their prerogative to change
the micrograph titlesif it pleased
them.
Title:
Nano St. Tropez
Description:
The exposure dose was just enough to fully develop the resist in the intersections of
the cross-grating. The electroplating was therefore able to start at the intersections.
The metal (gold) continued to be deposited and at the same time filled the underexposed
lines between the intersections.
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 53.59 k X
Instrument: Zeiss SUPRA 55V
Submitted by:
Sergey Gorelick
Affiliation:
Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
Title: Delirium Tremens
Description:
Stressed cobalt layer
Magnification: (3"x4" image): 650 X
Instrument: Philips XL 30
Submitted by:
Michael Häffner
Affiliation:
Title:
Existential Snowscape with Rabbit
Description:
SiO2 like particles did release from the surface and showed up somewhere
else on a 5nm thick chrome deposited area. (quartz wafer)
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 50 kX
Instrument:
Submitted by:
Affiliation:
Philips Research – MiPlaza – Thin Film Facilities
Title: “
Defenestrated flower”
Description:
Carbon Nanotube Microflower
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 200 X
Instrument: XL 30 FEG SEM Title:
Puppy After lightning (10kV)
Description: Instrument: 1530 LEO SEM HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Skeleton Coast Description: HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Nano Tongue Lashing
(video - Refresh to see again) Description: Submitted by: Sebastian Gautsch HONORABLE MENTION Title: Embracing Nano
Tsunamis Description: Magnification: (3"x4" image):
20 kX Affiliation: University of Tuebingen HONORABLE MENTION Title: Pommes Frites Description: All 2009 Entries (with original titles) Back to Home MNE MicroGraph Contest Home page of the MNE Conference
Submitted by:
Michael De Volder
Affiliation:
Single-walled carbon nanotube synthesis after a funny deposition of the catalyst particles.
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 40.00 k X
Submitted by:
Iñigo Martin-Fernandez
Affiliation:
We wanted to create micropillars on si substrate using colloidal particles
and BOSCH process, but it went wrong.
Magnification:
2200 X
Instrument: Jeol JSM-7401 FEG SEM
Submitted by:
Kosmas Ellinas
Affiliation:
Institute of Microelectronics, NCSR “Demokritos”
Image sequence of developped nanostructures with increasing dot exposure dose.
Nanopillars start forming in the center due to PMMA overexposure.
Magnification: (3"x4" image):
?.? X
Instrument: Raith 150 Lithography system
Affiliation: Institute
of Microengineering, EPFL
Very dense grown carbon nanotubes around an AFM tip
Instrument: Philips
XL 30
Submitted by: Michael
Häffner
Vertical carbon nanotubes after growth in a turbulent gas flow .
Magnification: 6492
X
Instrument: Philips XL 30
Submitted by: Michael
Häffner
Affiliation: Universität
Tübingen