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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Focus.de

Thorsten Naeser, Wissenschaftsjournalist

Physicist Stefan Thiel moves a tiny monocrystal from strontium titanate into a vacuum chamber. The crystal is a new development. What is special about it is the fact that it is surrounded by a thin film of just a few atomic layers of lanthan aluminate. Neither the crystal nor its coating conduct electricity. However, a conductive layer forms at the interface whose phenomena have hardly been researched as of yet.

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