Raith Micrograph award 2007

Winning notification

Raith would like to express its gratitude to all its customers taking part at the 4th Raith Micrograph Award for highly sophisticated and scientific applications.

Due to the highest interest since the first Raith Micrograph Award in 1994 and the excellent quality of your submissions, the Raith application team had large shoes to fill deciding on the winner - and finally "no choice" but to extend the number of prizes.

Focussing on the criterion uniqueness of nanostructure, the quality of the image as well as the description of the work, we are glad to declare the winners of this award:

1st place

Boudewijn Docter, COBRA / TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Accurate high-aspect ratio structure: Photonic crystal pillars etched about 4 micrometers into an InP substrate.

2nd place

Manuel Decker, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

Fundamental building blocks of a chiral metamaterial consisting of pairs of gold split-ring resonators.

3rd place

Jeff Kettle, Cardiff University, Great Britain

Step-and Flash Imprint Lithography (S-FIL) imprint of a "motheye" lens.

4th place (offhanded consolation prize)

Tang Xiaohu, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

SEM cross-section for a single-electron memory device with self-aligned floating gate (size of about 10 nm) and triangular channel.