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The MNE CPH 2018 micrograph contest is now closed. Please see all 2018 award winners and entries below.
The rules include the following:
- Entries have to be of a single image taken with a microscope and should 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 2018, 40 entries were submitted. The entries came from: Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Switzerland.
The judges were:
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Gaby Grützner – Managing Director of Micro Resist Technologies and long time member of the MNE International Steering Committee.
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Irene Fernandez-Cuesta – Staff Scientist University of Hamburg and former winner of Micro Nano graph contest.
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Stefano Dallorto – Molecular Foundry, wanted to win in 2017 – Judge in 2018!
There were 4 awards:
- 1st Place
- 2nd Place
- 3rd Place
- MNE People’s Choice
There were also 7 honorable mentions given.
To download a PDF with all 40 entries, click HERE.
1st Place
Title: The question of life: which direction to go?
Description: Sub-wavelength diamond nanosctructureto control the light field at the microscale.
Magnification: 19000 x
Instrument: Zeiss Supra 55 VP
Submitted by: Gediminas Seniutinas
Affiliation: Paul ScherrerInstitute
2nd Place
Title: What’s under the rug?
Description: EBL exposure with too high dose can result in carpets of nanopillars instead of free standing pillars. When the carpet delaminates it is possible to see all sides of the pillars.
Magnification: 2000x
Instrument: FEI ApreoSEM
Submitted by: Jakob Vinje
Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
3rd Place
Title: A Game of Go
Description: Trapping device used to isolate individual silica microspheres from agglomerates.
Magnification: 600
Instrument: JEOL JSM-6400 (SEM)
Submitted by: Nathaniel Berneman & Ignaas Jimidar
Affiliation: University of Twente & Vrije Universiteit Brussel
MNE People’s Choice
Title: The sun will rise, and we will try again
Description: SEM image of a sacrificial stencil mask for on polymer metal evaporation. The structure was fabricated using 2Photon Lithography on two different resist layers
Magnification: 4 kX
Instrument: SEM Helios Nano Lab 600i
Submitted by: Salvatore Puce
Affiliation: Universitàdel Salento – iit
Honorable Mention
Title: Tulips in Love
Description: SEM of silicon grating. A crazy metal assisted chemical etching formed some tulips that eventually fall in love
Magnification: 8000 X
Instrument: SEM Zeiss Supra VP55
Submitted by: Lucia Romano
Affiliation: PSI
Title: Perfectionist’s nightmare
Description: Highly ordered Al-doped ZnO tube structures fabricated by deep UV lithography, ALD and deep reactive ion etching. The thicknessof tube walls canbeas thinas 20 nm!
Magnification: 15.72k X
Instrument: SEM Zeiss Supra 60VP
Submitted by: Evgeniy Shkondin
Affiliation: DTU-Fotonik
Title: Austrian winter landscape at night, After a couple of wines and schnaps
Description: Crystallized proteins and salts on a stamp for nanocontactprinting. Should be homogeneous. Darkfieldmicroscope image w/o colouring.
Magnification: 10x
Instrument: Dark field microscope
Submitted by: Marco Lindner
Affiliation: Stratec Consumables GmbH
Title: I made it! I will be a girl!
Description: TiO2 nanoparticles on a wafer after RIE process.
Magnification: 207.15 kX
Instrument: SEM Zeiss Supra 60VP
Submitted by: Evgeniy Shkondin
Affiliation: DTU-Fotonik
Title: The Ghost of MNE!
Description: Salt and DNA dehydrated residuals suspended and concentrated over a superhydrophobic device.
Magnification: 1000x
Instrument: Quanta 200, FEI
Submitted by: Monica Marini
Affiliation: KAUST
Title: NordicDesigngoesNano
Description: Hexagonal lattice of Au nanoasterisksduring lift-off
Magnification: 50k X
Instrument: FE-SEM LEO 1530
Submitted by: Ana Conde-Rubio
Affiliation: University of Barcelona
Title: After this great summer, Winter is coming!
Description: SEM of a laser-modified chromium layer on fused silica
Magnification: 1k
Instrument: Carl Zeiss Ultra 55
Submitted by: Joachim Zajadacz
Affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering
