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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
2009, 73 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:
•
Don Tennant - Cornell
• Michaele Melngailis – Citizen of the World
• Tom Kenny - Stanford
There were six awards:
• Grand Prize
• Most Bizzare
• Best Photon Micrograph
• Best Ion Micrograph
• Best Electron
Micrograph
• Best Video
There were 6 Honorable Mentions.
All 2009 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.
GRAND PRIZE
Title: Larmor City
Description:
SEM images of silicon pillar forming the black-silicon obtained by plasma
etching
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 8,000X
Instrument: FEI DB
Nova 200 Scanning Electron Microscope
Submitted by: Alfredo
Rodrigues Vaz, Carla Verissimo. e Clovis Fischer
Affiliation: LPD/CCS
– UNICAMP - BRAZIL
Most Bizarre
Title: Lost Souls
Description:
Rh(110) with TiOX covered regions (dark in SEM).
A well-prepared Rh(110) surface with deposited titanium was heated
and exposed to oxygen. The corresponding preparations and the acquisition of the depicted SEM image were conducted
in an ultra-high vacuum environment. A more detailed characterization showed that the bright areas consist of pure rhodium
while the dark areas are covered with titanium and oxygen.
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 4,000X
Instrument:
Omicron/Zeiss UHV Scanning Electron Microscope
Submitted by: Michael Schirmer,
Marie-Madeleine Walz, Hubertus Marbach, Thomas Lukaczyk and Hans-Peter Steinruck
Affiliation:
University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
BEST PHOTON MICROGRAPH
Title: Mum’s the
Word
Description:
Optical micrograph of the culet of a brilliant-cut diamond that is covered
with developed positive photoresist sporting the pattern of a future pick-up
coil
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 100 x
Instrument: Olympus MX-61
Submitted by: A.
Imre & M. Abliz
Affiliation: Center
for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Lab
BEST ION MICROGRAPH
Title: The Floating
Bucket of Desire
Description:
Chromatography bead mysteriously hovering above its substrate. This is an
image of a core-shell chromatography bead. It is highly insulating and has no
conductive coating, which may have allowed it to stack on top of an (unseen)
neighbor. This particular shell has fractured, allowing the core the chance
to be seen better.
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 1,000X
Instrument: Carl
Zeiss Orion Plus
Submitted by: Larry
Scipioni
Affiliation: Carl
Zeiss SMT, Inc.
BEST ELECTRON MICROGRAPH
Title: “Avian
Collision”
Description: Particle on aluminum on glass
I’m still looking for the micro horses… (Previous title referred
to a hat and horses)
Magnification: (3"x4" image): 5000X
Instrument: FEI
Quanta 3D FEG
Submitted by: V.G.
Kutchoukov and P. Kruit
Affiliation: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
BEST VIDEO
This Video is high quality and takes a while to download.
Click link if you would like to DOWNLOAD VIDEO.
Title : Romantic Yearning
Description:
Live video (SEM imaging) of a micron-scale bridge being fabricated with a Ga+
ion beam in a dual-beam instrument by ion-beam-induced deposition (IBID)
using a platinum precursor gas.
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 25,000x
Instrument: FEI
Quanta 3D FEG
Submitted by: Aurelien Botman
Affiliation: Technische
Universiteit Delft (Netherlands)
HONORABLE MENTION (MicroGraph Rotated by Judges)
Title: Egyptian Coaster
Description:
300nm thick Al on Si after lift-off. Obviously
something went terribly wrong in this e-beam exposure, but I think it’s
beautiful.
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 68.3KX
Instrument: Homemade, Raith e_line
Submitted by: Yigal
Lilach & Hadar Steinberg
Affiliation: The
Hebrew university of Jerusalem, Israel.
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Humpty
Dumpty
Description:
Evaporated metal “spit”
Magnification: 2.12
KX
Instrument: Leo
Genesis 1560
Submitted by: J.
Pagliuca
Affiliation: Raytheon
RF Components
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: “Mexican
Wedding Cakes.”
Description:
Metal deposited on polystyrene microspheres leaves a culinary impression..
Magnification:
(3"x4" image): 13 KX
Instrument: LEO
1550 VP FESEM
Submitted by: Evan
Brown
Affiliation: CNM - California
Institute of Technology
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: “Rope a
Dope”
Description:
Interwoven structure generated by CVD with ethyne
resulting in the depicted “rope-shape” We acknowledge the fabrication of the shown
structure by Prof. Dr. Nadejda Popovska and
Katya Danova (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany). Interwoven
structure generated by CVD with ethyne
resulting in the depicted “rope-shape”.
Magnification: (3"x4" image): 60.18 KX
Instrument: Omicron/ZEISS
UHV SEM
Submitted by: Michael
Schirmer, Marie-Madeleine Walz and Hubertus Marbach
Affiliation: University
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
HONORABLE MENTION
Title: Gulliver in
Lilliput (the only title the judges did not change)
Description:
A 3T3 cell attached to an array of PDMS pillars. The cell
on the substrate is critical point dried and gold-coated for SEM imaging. This
is a SEM image of a 3T3 cell attached to the top of a hexagonal array of PDMS
pillars. The cell on the substrate is critical point dried and gold-coated
for SEM imaging.
Magnification:1,000X
Instrument: Hitachi 800 SEM
Submitted by: Saba Ghassemi
Affiliation: Columbia University
HONORABLE MENTION MicroGraph
Title: A Thousand Points
of Light?
Description:
Self-organized nanostructures on a Si surface induced by low-energy ion beam
erosion AFM image: 2 µm x 2 µm, z-scale 3 nm
Magnification: 50
kx
Instrument: MFD-3D
AFM, Asylum Research
Submitted by: J.
Völlner, B. Ziberi, F. Frost
Affiliation: Leibniz-Institute
of Surface Modification, Leipzig, Germany
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