We are delighted to announce the winners of the STS Elionix Scientific Image Competition for Q1 of 2021. The STS Elionix Scientific Image Competition offers a unique opportunity for Tyndall researchers to flex their creative muscle, showcase and share scientific images from their research which they have discovered to be visually striking or informative to the technically excellent. Three winners are each awarded a €100 All-4-One voucher, kindly sponsored by STS Elionix.
The judges for the Q1 Competition were William Scanlon, CEO; Eoin O'Reilly, Chief Scientist; Peter Smyth, Commercial Director; Ursula Morrish, Marketing & Communications Manager; Graeme Maxwell, Head of Specialty Products & Services; and Daniela Iacopino, Researcher, MNS.
The outstanding quality and creativity demonstrated resulted in votes cast for three wonderful winners -Vitaly Zubialevich, Zhi Li and Veronica Biolcati.
Congratulations to all!
Winter
This is a SEM of an ornament sometimes naturally occurring when silica nanospheres are scooped from the water surface to a hydrophobic sample. The fractal-like darker regions are regions where the surface tension force acting against the so-called “capillary pump” force managed to push away spheres from the hydrophobic substrate surface.
Vitaly Zubialevich
III-Nitride Materials
RGB micro-LEDs displays enabled by transfer printing technologies
Colour displays using micro-LEDs need the heterogeneous integration of red, green and blue devices from different materials. By developing advanced device releasing techniques, 20 um-sized LEDs emitting three colours are separated from their native substrates, then massively transfer printed on a glass substrate for displays application. The image shows the details of lit up pixels (with metal connections) from a bigger display.
Zhi Li
III-V Materials and Devices
Codicology and multispectral imaging
This infrared false-colour image (IRFC) captures the different inks used in the Irish manuscript the Book of Uí Mhaine (A.D. 1394). The interaction of inks with IR illumination is strictly related to their chemical composition. This property is used for the typological classification of inks as part of the Ink&Skin project. This IRFC image was created by combining a visible image (RGB) and an IR image at 940 nm. It shows that both an iron-gall ink (red in IRFC) and a carbon-based ink (black in IRFC) were employed as writing material.
Veronica Biolcati
NTG