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