The 2006 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2006 "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 2006. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Category "Additional nominations":

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Kurt Fuchs, Fotograf

In the early days, electronic components were soldered together and computers were as large as garages. Today, it is possible to apply increasingly small components to a carrier through light exposure, just like photographs. The image shows a researcher wearing a mask exposing a nanoelectronic component at the technology hall of the Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB).

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