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The 66th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication
The 28th EIPBN Bizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest is now CLOSED. Please see all 2023 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 2023, 61 entries were submitted from six different countries.
The judges were:
- Edward Gadasu – Drexel University
- Aimee Price – Ohio State University
- Regina Luttge – TU Eindhoven
There were seven awards:
- Grand Prize
- Best Electron Micrograph
- Best Ion Micrograph
- Best Photon Micrograph
- Best Scanning Probe Micrograph
- Most Bizarre
- 3Beamers Choice
There were also six Honorable Mention awards given.
To download a PDF with all 61 entries, click below:
Grand Prize Micrograph
Title: Nano Cubism
Description: It’s a form of art
Magnification (3″ x 4″ image): 4.5kX
Instrument: Tescan Mira 3
Submitted by: Xavier Vorhies
Affiliation: Montana Tech Nanotechnology Laboratory
Best Electron Micrograph
Title: The Wheat from the Chaff
Description: In Montana, we see shooting stars.
Magnification (3″ x 4″ image): 588X
Instrument: Tescan Mira 3
Submitted by: Xavier Vorhies
Affiliation: Montana Tech Nanotechnology Laboratory
Best Ion Micrograph
Title: Berlin Baguettes
Description: Lithium-ion beam image of diatoms
Instrument: VELION FIB-SEM equipped with GaBiLi ion source
Submitted by: Torsten Richter, Alexander Ost
Affiliation: Raith GmbH, Germany
Best Photon Micrograph
Title: Get Focused
Description: A through-focus video shows the hypnotic optics of a Fresnel lens array. We machine the lens array through a sacrificial film into a glass substrate with an ion beam and trans-illuminate the lens array with an optical microscope. The sequence of photon micrographs spans a vertical range of 40 µm in 1000 increments of 40 nm. The microscope focal position moves from below the glass surface, through the diffraction patterns and photon beams that the lens array projects, to above the array focal distance of 12 μm, and back in a loop. False color is perceptually uniform and for a beamish effect.
Magnification (3″ x 4″ image): 50X
Instrument: Carl Zeiss Axio Observer 7
Submitted by: Andrew C. Madison, Craig R. Copeland, and Samuel M. Stavis et al
Affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Best Scanning Probe Micrograph
Title: Beta Go
Description: The smallest chessboard in the world! Only 160 nm across. Use pick-and-place molecules for the pieces.
Magnification (3″ x 4″ image): 1,000,000X
Instrument: Omicron VT STM with ZyVector™ lithography control system
Submitted by: James H.G. Owen
Affiliation: Zyvex Labs
Most Bizarre Micrograph
Title: Aliens at a Family Diner
Description: Nanosphere after etching used as a mask for metal deposition
Magnification (3″ x 4″ image): 50003X
Instrument: Verios XHR 460L SEM
Submitted by: Sivan Tzadka
Affiliation: Ben Gurion University
3-Beamer’s Choice Award
Title: Horrorclown with jelly bag cap
Description: Glueing a TEM lamella to a grid by IBID process – face in deposit
Magnification (3″ x 4″ image): 10×10µm²
Instrument: Raith FIB VELION FIB
Submitted by: F. Nouvertne, Y. Yu, T. Richter
Affiliation: Raith
Honorable Mentions
