The 2005 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2005 "Images of Research" competition in the categories "Fascination of Research", "Faces of Research", the winner of the audience prize and the shortlist, a selection of the best photos submitted in 2005. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Category "Faces of Research":

Category "Audience prize":

Category "Additional nominations":

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Luise Schubert/Peter Werner
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle

This photograph was awarded 3. place in the category "Fascination of Research".


At 525 degrees Celsius, scientists fume gold onto a silicon disk and subsequently expose it to a stream of silicon vapor. Wherever there are gold drops, nano-wires begin growing upward. Such experiments with the semiconductor silicon facilitate the development of promising future electronic components.

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