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Bizarre/Beautiful
Micrograph Contest
“A good Micrograph is worth more than the MegaByte it consumes.”
Entries Presented by Dr. John Randall
The rules include the following:
• Entries have to be of a single image taken with a microscope and could not be significantly altered.
• There is no restriction with respect to the subject matter.
• Electron and ion micrographs have to be black and white.
In 2011, 86 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, 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:
• Don Tennant – Cornell
• Ellyn Segal PhD – Biosafety Manager Stanford University
• Prof. Waichi Pang – Hong Kong, Michigan, and the world
• ShaChelle Devlin Manning – Manti Technologies, Partner
There were six awards:
• Grand Prize
• Most Bizzare
• Best Photon Micrograph
• Best Ion Micrograph
• Best Electron Micrograph
• Hardest to Explain Micrograph
There were 10 Honorable Mentions.
All 2011 Entries (with original titles)
Judges exercised their prerogative to liberally interpret the award categories, change the micrograph titles, and even rotate the micrograph if it pleased them.
BEST ELECTRON MICROGRAPH
Title: Nanotube Nebula
Description: SEM image of bundled carbon nanotubes with a thin coating of SiO.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 25000X
Instrument (Make and Model): FEI Nova Nanolab 600
Submitted by: Matthew Bresin
Affiliation: College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, (SUNY Albany)
BEST ION MICROGRAPH
Title: Painted Desert
Description:Polycrystalline gold surface, imaged with a neon ion beam
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 38kX
Instrument: Carl Zeiss NTS, ORION Plus
Submitted by: Larry Scipioni
Affiliation: Carl Zeiss NTS
BEST PHOTON MICROGRAPH
Title: Solar flares
Description:Cell spreading on a flat substrates.
Magnification: 40X
Instrument: Olympus CKX41
Submitted by: Anurag Mathur
Affiliation: Columbia University
MOST BIZARRE MICROGRAPH
Title: Snake Eyes
Description: Negative resist exposed by beam and covered by aluminum oxide
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 25,600X
Instrument (Make and Model): Raith 150
Submitted by: Sebastian Gautsch
Affiliation: EPFL Switzerland
HARDEST TO EXPLAIN MICROGRAPH
Title: I Sing the Electron Ecliptic
Description: Electron beams with helical wavefronts and orbital angular momentum are produced via diffraction from nanofabricated holograms.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): about 4X
Instrument (Make and Model): Philips/FEI CM300
Submitted by: Benjamin McMorran
Affiliation: NIST
GRAND PRIZE
Title: Reading Tea Leaves
Description: SEM image of M.C. Escher’s 1948 Drop as “sketched” by e-beam lithography in such a way as to preserve the grayscale information. Medium: HSQ on Si
Magnification (3″x4″ image):3,300x
instrument (Make and Model): Elionix SirionESM-9000
Submitted by: Joel Yang
Affiliation: IMRE
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Popping Poppies
Description: Top-down views animation of Directed Self-Assembled (DSA) PDMS pillars in various diameter size hole pre-patterns formed by optical lithography.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 150,000x
Instrument (Make and Model): SEM Hitachi CG4000
Submitted by: Y.Seino & T. Azuma
Affiliation: Toshiba Corp.,Japan
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: The Burghers of Calais
Description: This Si structure is etched by ICP with falling ebeam resist mask
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 23.45KX
Instrument (Make and Model): Zeiss XB1540 EsB S4800 FESEM
Submitted by: Jingyu Zhang, Deirdre Olynick & Stefano Cabrini
Affiliation: Nanofabrication group, the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: The Forge
Description: Si photonic crystals milled by FIB silica particles showing 100 crystal orientation
Magnification (3″x4″ image):4.58KX
Instrument (Make and Model): Zeiss XB1540 EsB
Submitted by: Jingyu Zhang, Deirdre Olynick & Stefano Cabrini
Affiliation: Nanofabrication group, the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Nailed It!
Description: The photonic crystal structure is fabricated on Er 3+ doped SiNx with Cr mask . It’s over etched and the pillars are undercut and falling down.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 32.94KX
Instrument (Make and Model): Zeiss XB1540 EsB
Submitted by: Jingyu Zhang, Nate Lawrence, Deirdre Olynick, Stefano Cabrini & Luca Dal Negro
Affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Electrical Engineering Department, Boston University
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: The holly and ivy
Description: During milling of Si3N4 layer we found the holly and the ivy .
Magnification: 10000X
Instrument: Zeiss FEI Quanta 3D FEG
Submitted by: V.G. Kutchoukov, P. Kruit
Affiliation: TUDelft, The Netherlands
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Water Lilies
Description: Secondary electron Photoemission Micrograph of Lateral Inhomogeneities in AlGaN.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 423x (30um x 60um)
Instrument Maximum (UW Madison)
Submitted by: G. F. Lorusso, H Solak
Affiliation: IMEC, EULITHA
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: The Engineer’s Pole Dance (a little help please)
Description: Carbon nano-fibers on FEBID iron catalyst particle
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 50000
Instrument (Make and Model):FEBID, SEM
Submitted by: H.D.Wanzenboeck, G.Hochleitner
Affiliation: University of Technology Vienna, Austria
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: NBC
Description: Patterns with various thicknesses etched in a SiN membrane through apertures in a compliant stencil membrane.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 50X
Instrument (Make and Model): Nikon Eclipse L200
Submitted by: Veronica Savu
Affiliation: EPFL
HONORABLE MENTION
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Title: Ode to Michael
Description: This is why you shouldn’t play music while doing experiments with microfluidic channels
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 20X
Instrument (Make and Model): Optical/Fluorescence Microscope (Nikon)
Submitted by: Irene Fernandez-Cuesta
Affiliation: DTU Nanotech & theMolecular Foundary(LBNL)
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Hank’s River of Pain
Description: a freactured calcium oxalate kidney stone.
Magnification (3″x4″ image):
Instrument (Make and Model): Instrument (Make and Model): JEOL SEM, 6700
Submitted by: Hank Smith, Sisi Ni
Affiliation: MIT