EPS
EPS Technical Photo Competition 2009
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Sponsored by School of EPS, Heriot-Watt University and supported by Vestas Wind Systems and ST Imaging
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195 submitted photos and 42 participants
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40 selected photos into final stage
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Top 3 best photos and many runner-ups
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For more information, pls. contact: Dr. Richard Fu: r.y.fu@hw.ac.uk
The winning photo
1st prize
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Plasma
Attraction By Heather Dalgarno Electrical
discharge reveals strange patterns beneath the hands. This plasma ball is used to demonstrate the
strange and beautiful phenomena as the discharge is attracted to any
conductive object placed close to its surface. Click on the image to see a larger version |
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2nd prize |
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Cell
aggregation By Rama Yusvana
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3rd prize |
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Retina
for oximetry by Gonzalo Muyo
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Runner up Prize |
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Focus
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Decane
in water By
Christopher Brown
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Plenoptic camera By Tom Bishop, Sara Zanetti, Paolo
Favaro We have constructed
a "Plenoptic camera", a modified camera which captures many
images simultaneously through a standard lens. The images are captured
by inserting an array of microlenses very close to the camera's sensor.
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Packaged
Micromachined Three-Axis Accelerometer by Craig
Lowrie The
sensor pictured here was fabricated using a micromachining process in which a
silicon wafer is subjected to various doping, deposition and etching steps to
produce this piezoresistive three-axis accelerometer. The sensor has been
designed to be sutured to the heart wall of a patient who has undergone heart
bypass surgery and has dimensions are 2.5x3.5x0.9 mm.
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Smiley
face by Rainer Beck
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Albert
Einstein by FIB By Jining Sun FIB technology is one of the most state-of-art
precision engineering methods. This technique is used
particularly in the materials science fields for site-specific analysis,
deposition, and ablation of materials. |
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Fibre
Pathway by Heather
Dalgarno Fibre optics form the
backbone of modern telecommunications. This image of a fibre optic bundle,
part of a teaching experiment, was taken to represent these pathways of
communication.
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Microconductor By David Flynn
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Diamond
film in plasma fusion reactor By Philip John
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Surface
wetability alteration by Christopher
Brown Droplets
of water on rock as part of investigations into surface wetability
alteration.
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Polarisation
Reveals by Heather
Dalgarno
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Wind-powered
water purification system By
Gavin
Park
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Nessie By Robert
H Hadfield
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Micro-Cantilever
Beam By Alice Daniels
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Light
Waterfall by Heather
Dalgarno A fibre optic
bundle from an undergraduate teaching experiment forms a waterfall of light.
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Fly
and device By David Flynn Scanning Electron
Microscope Image of Microinductor next to a Fly. The highest power density micro-inductor
achieved to date. UV-LIGA manufacture was used to fabricate the device. Click on
the image to see a larger version. |
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Beauty of the HWU Sun Pointer By Pasidu Pallawela This device is an experimental
unit which is used to pin point the suns location at any given time without
any moving parts or a tracking system. The systems consist of 6 steel balls
encircled by a ring and a positive meniscus lens (concave-convex) kept on top
of them. For any given position of the sun in its trajectory, suns image will
get incident on three balls as point images.
Because of the reflection of the steel balls and because of refraction
effects of the lens, they make real images on a particular plane when the setup
is correctly arranged. Depending on the positions of these three points, the
position of the sun can be calculated. A 0.1 watt red LED
was placed in the middle of the balls and thereafter an additional steel ball
was placed on the middle of the lens. Click on
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Grating
Reflections by Heather
Dalgarno This abstract image
is of three diffraction orders, created by reflection of a light source from
a specially designed diffraction grating.
These gratings form the heart of our 3D imaging optics – Originally
developed for astronomy to de-twinkle the stars these gratings are now
finding new application in Biology.
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Fluorescence
Shines by Heather
Dalgarno
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Coils
by laser By Jack Ng
Electroless copper
plated micro-coil fabricated by laser direct-writing
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Electronic
circuit By Lukasz Michal Sznajder
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Dielectrophoresis
in 3D By Rama Yusvana
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Aligned nanofibres Mohamed Basel Bazbouz
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S*L*M By Rainer Beck
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Flying
Bird By Rehan Ahmed
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Electric
field distributions By Zhang-cheng
Hao
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3D
density plots By Rama Yusvana Image analysis of the
various cell patterns made using dielectrophoresis can be used to obtain
information about the cell aggregation process and further development. The
images presented are 3D density plots. Click on the image to see a larger version . |
For more
information, pls. contact: Dr. Richard Fu: r.y.fu@hw.ac.uk;
http://www.eps.hw.ac.uk/~ryf1/Yongqing%20Fu-index-new.html
EPS local organisation members:
EPS local organisation members:
Dr.
Richard Fu
Dr. Lynn Paterson; Dr. Ai-Lan Lee; Dr.
Changhai Wang; Dr. Nicholas Willoughby; Dr. Xichun Luo
Advisory Board Members:
Prof. Douglas Greenhalgh; Prof. Ian
Galbraith; Mr. David Nisbet; Prof. Bob Reuben; Prof. Andrew Moore; Dr. Graeme
White; Prof. Duncan Hand; Prof. Marc Desmulliez; Dr. Kevin McCullough;
Supported by
(1) Vestas Wind Systems http://www.vestas.com/