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Ion and Photon Beam Technology and NanofabricationBizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest
“A good Micrograph is worth more than the MegaByte it consumes.”
Results Submitted by John Randall
- Best Electron Micrograph
- Best Ion Micrograph
- Best Photon Micrograph
- Best Scanning Probe Micrograph
- Most Bizarre
- Grand Prize
The rules included the following:
- Contestants must be registered 1996 conference attendees.
- Micrographs must be submitted as an 8 inch by 10 inch and must be accompanied by a completed entry sheet.
- Entries must be of a single image taken with a microscope and may not be significantly altered.
- There is no restriction with respect to the subject matter.
- Electron and ion micrographs must be black and white.
Over 40 entries were submitted. There were many outstanding micrographs. The work represented in the submitted micrographs covered a wide range of fields including micro mechanical and integrated circuit fabrication, chemical and dry etching, field emission tips, UV and x-ray optics, and of course e-beam, ion beam, x-ray, and photo lithography experiments. While the largest number of entries were electron micrographs, the grand prize winner was an optical micrograph (ironically of an e-beam experiment). Although there was a small number of scanning probe micrograph entries, the judges chose not to award a prize in that category. The panel of judges who selected the award winners consisted of:
Al Wagner
Research Staff Member, IBM Research
Evelyn Hu
Director of Quest, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Yasuo Iida
Research and Operational Planning Manager, Microelectronics Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
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Title: Memory Town
Magnification: 50X
Instrument: Philips 525M Scanning Electron Microscope
Submitted by: Martin Verheijen and Frans Holthuysen, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Title: MEMS fabricated Ni Sprocket
Magnification: 1,000X
Instrument: FEI FIB 610
Submitted by: Terrence Stark, Analytical Instrumentation Facility, North Carolina State University
Title: “Hieroglyphics of porous silicon”
Magnification: 50X
Instrument: Olympus
Submitted by: M. Vaez-Iravani, J.K. Rogers, and F.J. Seiferth. Rochester Institute of Technology. M. Vaez-Iravani presently with Tencor Instruments.
Title: “Micro Duck”
Magnification: 8,000X
Instrument: JEOL 6400
Submitted by: Chuan-Cheng Cheng, California Institute of Technology
Title: Nervous Breakdown
Magnification: 200X
Instrument: Leitz Ergolux
Submitted by: Tom Newman – Ultratech Stepper, Mark McCord – Stanford University, and Fritz Hohn – IBM Research.