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20th EIPBN Bizarre/Beautiful
Micrograph Contest
“A good Micrograph is worth more than the MegaByte it consumes.”
Entries Presented by Dr. John Randall – Zyvex Labs
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 2014, 79 entries were submitted. Including:
• 60 Electron Micrographs (SEM and TEM)
• 11 Ion Micrographs
• 5 Photon (optical) Micrographs
• 2 Video Micrographs
• 1 Scanning Probe Micrograph
The entries came from: US, Switzerland, Canada, Hungary, Germany, India, France, and Japan.
The panel of judges who selected the award winners were:
• Prof. Theresa Maldonado – Division Director, Engineering Education and Centers; Engineering Directorate National Science Foundation; Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Research Texas A&M University System
• Cindy Daniell PhD – SRI International Director, Program Development, Physical Sciences Division; Chief Scientist in the Explosives Division of the HSARPA; Program Manager DSO DARPA
• Larry Millstein PhD JD -Partner at Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan PC; President Philosophical Society of Washington; Adjunct Prof.; Biochem., Molec. & Cell. Bio. Georgetown University; President Foresight Institute
The Judges exercised their prerogative to liberally interpret the award categories, and change the micrograph titles if it pleased them.
There were six awards:
• Grand Prize
• Best Video
• Most Bizzare
• Best Ion Micrograph
• Best Electron Micrograph
• Best Photon Micrograph
There were 7 Honorable Mentions and a special Honorable Mention for Highest Resolution.
All 2014 Entries (with original titles)
BEST ELECTRON MICROGRAPH
Title: Moonstruck on the Beach
Description: Imprint into PS by stamp with about 500 nm ( lateral and vertical ) pyramidal structures etched via black Si process
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 2.5KX
Instrument (Make and Model): FEI XL 30S SEM
Submitted by: Si Wang
Affiliation: University of Wuppertal
BEST PHOTON PRIZE
Title: gg – golden galaxy
Description: A gold etching experiment went wrong, but ended up just being beautiful.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 42X
Instrument: NIKON LV 150
Submitted by: Lukas Häusler
Affiliation: PROFACTOR GmbH
BEST ION MICROGRAPH
Title: Rear Window
Description: Using a gallium beam in conjunction with an etchant gas (XeF2) two holes penetrate through silicon to view the patterned metal layers below.
Magnification (4″ x 5″ image): 1.27 kX
Instrument: Zeiss NanoFab (He, Ne, Ga)
Submitted by: John Notte & Deying Xia
Affiliation: Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC
MOST BIZARRE MICROGRAPH
Title: The Short and Curly of it All
Description: A spring-like structure formed by an aligned bundle of carbon nanotubes.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 1.55KX
Instrument: Zeiss Sigma VP
Submitted by: Mike Chang, Alireza Nojeh
Affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia
BEST VIDEO MICROGRAPH
Title: Continental Drift
Description: Accelerated video showing the result of an extremely high, localized dose of helium into a silicon wafer, covered with a zirconium dioxide crust.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 333KX
Instrument: Zeiss Orion HIM
Submitted by: John Notte, Shawn McVey, Sybren Sijbrandij
Affiliation: Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC
GRAND PRIZE
Title: Tessellation as a Noun
Description: Underdosed hatch-ing structures in 2-photon polymeri-zation undergone shrinkage and collapse
Magnification (3″x4″ image):15KX
Instrument: ZEISS Supra 55 VP
Submitted by: Robert Kirchner
Affiliation: Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
SPECIAL HONORABLE MENTION (BEST RESOLUTION)
Title: Nano Runes
Description: Celtic Knotwork drawn using STM Lithography from a 500 x 500 pixel bitmap. 1 px = 7.68 Å
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 350 kX
Instrument: Zyvex Labs STM
Submitted by: James H.G. Owen
Affiliation: Zyvex Labs
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Croissant Under Vacuum (AKA Getting OLD)
Description: SEM image of a chitin coated alginate microparticle following dehydration.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 350X
Instrument: (FEI Quanta series )
Submitted by: Bryan Kaehr
Affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Innie and Outtie Ravioli
Description: SEM image of yeast cells confined in microfabricated hydrogel structures bulging out the roof of their house following cell proliferation.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 350X
Instrument: FEI Quanta series
Submitted by: Bryan Kaehr
Affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Thor’s Garden
Description: Carbon atoms which are escaped from the tips of the carbon nanotube emitters grow a tree on the anode surface during the field emission.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 5,000X
Instrument: FESEM JEOL 7401F
Submitted by: Hai Hoang Van
Affiliation: Florida State University
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Rocky Mountain High
Description: SEM image of a single silicon needle of a microelectrode array with debris (clouds).
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 800 X
Instrument (Make and Model): Hitachi S-4700 SEM
Submitted by: Josh Ballard & Bill Owen
Affiliation: Zyvex Labs
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Pac Man ate a Butterfly or Shamrock Sonogram
Description: Coherent-EUV Shadowgraph of pyramid structure
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 4.5kX
Instrument (Make and Model): EUV Micro-CSM
Submitted by: Tetsuo Harada
Affiliation: Univ. of Hyogo
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: ET and Avatar Offspring or Shrooms Man?
Description: Making of truncated silicon cones using a SiO2 hard mask
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 1KX
Instrument (Make and Model): Zeiss Ultra 60
Submitted by: Mathias Irmscher
Affiliation: IMS Chips
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Shuttlecock Evolution
Description: Holographic two-photon polymerization of a microstructure composed of nested dodecahedron frames (circumscribed sphere radius: 10.5 µm) is visible in IPL photoresist.
Magnification (3″x4″ image): 100X
Instrument (Make and Model): Zeiss Axiovert 40
Submitted by: Gaszton Vizsnyiczai
Affiliation: EBiological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences