Awards for papers and posters presented at international conferences:

Aug 2009   

Poster prize at the Microscopy Conference 2009, Graz, Austria, 30 Aug - 4 Sep 2009.

In situ reduction and oxidation of nickel from solid oxide fuel cells in a Titan ETEM.
Q Jeangros, A Faes, J B Wagner, T W Hansen, R E Dunin-Borkowski, J Van herle and A Hessler-Wyser

Poster:
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Jun 2006   

Best poster prize and best student poster prize at Microscience, London, 27-29 Jun 2006.

The application of novel TEM techniques to the study of Pt catalyst particles.
L Cervera Gontard, R E Dunin-Borkowski, L-Y Chang, A I Kirkland, C J D Hetherington and D Ozkaya

Poster:
PDF 4.0 MB
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Aug 2005   

Poster prize at EMAG-NANO 05, Leeds, 31 August - 2 September 2005.

Delocalisation in images of Pt nanoparticles.
L Cervera Gontard, R E Dunin-Borowski, M J Hytch and D Ozkaya

Poster:
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Aug 2004   

Poster prize at Microscopy and Microanalysis, Savannah, Georgia, 1-5 August 2004.

An ultra-high-tilt two-contact electrical biasing specimen holder for electron holography and electron tomography of semiconductor devices.
R E Dunin-Borkowski, A C Twitchett, P A Midgley, P K Somodi, R F Broom, J S Barnard, S B Newcomb, A C Robins, D W Smith, J J Gronsky and P E Fischione

Click here to download, in pdf format, the paper that was presented with this poster.

Poster:
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Certificate

Aug 2002   

Best invited paper at Microscopy and Microanalysis, Quebec City, Canada, 4-8 August 2002.

Magnetic and structural characterization of biogenic magnetite.
M R McCartney and R E Dunin-Borkowski

Click here to download this paper in pdf format.

Paper:
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Certificate

Aug 2000   

Poster prize at Microscopy and Microanalysis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 13-17 August 2000.

Microstructure and thermal conductivity of AlN(Y₂O₃) ceramics.
Y D Yu, A M Hundere, R Hoier, M A Einarsrud and R E Dunin-Borkowski

Click here to download, in pdf format, the paper that was presented with this poster.

Dec 1994   

Poster prize at the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Meeting, Warwick, 19-21 December 1994.

Energy filtered Fresnel contrast analysis of Fe/Cu multilayers.
R E Dunin-Borkowski, C B Boothroyd, S J Lloyd and W M Stobbs

Apr 1993   

Student paper prize at the Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials Meeting, Oxford, 5-8 April 1993.

The characterisation of delta doping by Fresnel contrast analysis.
R E Dunin-Borkowski, W M Stobbs and D D Perovic

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Awards for electron micrographs:

5 Oct 2004   

First Prize in the "Science as Art" category in the Daily Telegraph Visions of Science competition, for a micrograph entitled "Magnetic field changes in a thin cobalt film".

The colors in the image show the different directions of the magnetic field in a layer of polycrystalline cobalt that has a thickness of 20nm. The field of view is approximately 200 µm. The image was acquired using the Fresnel mode of Lorentz microscopy in a Philips CM200 field emission gun transmission electron microscope. It was converted to a color induction map by applying the Transport of Intensity Equation to the image intensity.

Acknowledgments: Anke Husmann (Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory), Molly McCartney, Chris Boothroyd.

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Certificate

5 Oct 2004   

First Prize in the "Science Close-Up" category in the Daily Telegraph Visions of Science competition, for a micrograph entitled "The magnetic field of an iron crystal inside a carbon nanotube".

The image shows a multi-walled carbon nanotube, approximately 190nm in diameter, containing a 35-nm-diameter iron crystal encapsulated inside it. Electron holography has been used to obtain a map of the magnetic field surrounding the iron particle, at a spatial resolution of approximately 5nm. The magnetic phase contours show that the particle contains a single magnetic domain. An external magnetic field could be applied to such particles to exert a torque on the surrounding nanotube.

Acknowledgments: Takeshi Kasama, Krzysztof Koziol, Alan Windle.

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17 Sep 2002   

Highly commended entry in the "Science Close-Up" category in the 2002 Daily Telegraph Visions of Science competition, for a micrograph entitled "Magnetic rock".

The image shows the magnetic microstructure in a natural, finely exsolved intergrowth of magnetite blocks in an ulvospinel matrix, which is influenced both by the shapes of the individual magnetite blocks and by magnetostatic interactions between them. Different colours correspond to different directions of magnetic induction in the sample.

Click here to download, in pdf format, the paper from which this image was taken.

Acknowledgments: Richard Harrison, Andrew Putnis.

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18 Sep 2001   

Highly commended entry in the "Science Close-Up" category in the 2001 Daily Telegraph Visions of Science competition, for a micrograph entitled "Magnetic field lines in a bacterial cell".

The image on the right shows the magnetic field lines in a single bacterial cell. The fine white lines are the magnetic field lines in the cell, which were measured using off-axis electron holography. Such bacteria live in sediments and bodies of water, and move parallel to geomagnetic field lines as a result of the torque exerted on their magnetosome chains by the earth's magnetic field.

Acknowledgments: Richard Frankel, Mihaly Posfai, Peter Buseck.

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Certificate

18 Sep 2001   

Highly commended entry in the "Science Close-Up" category in the 2001 Daily Telegraph Visions of Science competition, for a micrograph entitled "Crystal in carbon nanotube".

The image on the right shows a surface plot created from a focal series of high-resolution images of a single walled carbon nanotube that contains a single crystal of potassium iodide three atoms wide. The sharp peaks show the regular arrangement of the atoms in the crystal.

Click here to download, in pdf format, the paper from which this image was taken.

Acknowledgments: Rudiger Meyer, Jeremy Sloan, Angus Kirkland, John Hutchison.

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Scientific awards:

Aug 2009   

Ernst Ruska Prize 2009 of the German Society for Electron Microscopy, awarded at the Microscopy Conference 2009 in Graz, Austria to R E Dunin-Borkowski, M R McCartney and T Kasama for their work on:

"Electron Holography for Characterisation of Magnetic Fields in sub-100nm-sized Materials and Devices".

Click here to see a picture from the Award ceremony.

Click here to see the Award page on the website of the German Society for Electron Microscopy.

Click here to see the Award page on the Ernst Ruska memorial website.

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Scientific awards to members of research group:

Aug 2009   

Max Hey Medal 2009 of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, to recognize research of excellence carried out by young workers in the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, petrology or geochemistry, awarded to T Kasama.

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