2nd prize photo:
Picture name: Silicon Popcorn.
Description: The surface of ion bombarded silicon wafer. The arrays are formed due to scanning and dwelling of an energetic focused-ion beam.
Instrument: Atomic-force microscope, Digital Instrument IIIa.
Date:  March 1998
Author:  Carolyn Pek, C/o A/P Wayne Nguyen P. Hung, School of Mechanical & Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Tel 790-4111, Fax 792-4062, Email mnphung@ntu.edu.sg