Winners of the 1st Illustrating NMI3 competition announced

BioRef@HZB A fish-eye perspective of the new BioRef neutron reflectometer at the neutron source BERII at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin with the sample position in the center. The neutrons are guided through a chopper system from the right side and are detected with a position sensitive detector on the left side. As a special feature an infrared beam line is installed on the sample stage, with an infrared spectrometer on top, in order to perform combined infrared spectroscopy and neutron reflectivity measurements. The software "AutoStich 2.2" was used to merge 10 individual pictures of the instrument resulting in the final perspective. Photo, Martin Kreuzer, HZB

BioRef@HZB

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 1st Illustrating NMI3 picture competition.

The first prize goes to Martin Kreuzer from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for his striking fish-eye photograph of the instrument BioRef at HZB.

His photograph will be displayed on the cover of the next issue of Inside NMI3, to be published in November.

There were three second prize winners of this first competition. The three pictures will be displayed inside the next issue of Inside NMI3 :

• Sergey Klimko from Laboratoire Léon Brillouin for his photograph of a new spin –flipper for neutron resonance spin-echo (NRSE) spectrometer MUSES at LLB, CEA-Saclay.

• Stephen Kill from ISIS for his photograph of the new high-field muon spectrometer (HiFi) at ISIS.

• Marcus Trapp from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for his photograph of the guide system of the time-of-flight reflectometer BioRef, at HZB.

The third prize goes to Stephen Kill from ISIS for his photograph of students at the ISIS Muon Training School.

This picture will be used to illustrate the schools section on the new NMI3 website.