Winners of the 2nd ´Illustrating NMI3´

2nd Illustrating NMI3 picture competition - first prize winner The external vacuum chamber attached for rapid in situ sample change on the Birmingham 17 T cryomagnet. The picture shows the sample cup being locked into place at the centre of the magnet bore. The cup is held on the end of a rod passing through the cryomagnet windows, with all of the various tools required visible in front of that. Picture: Elizabeth Blackburn, University of Birmingham.

Vacuum chamber on the Birmingham 17 T magnet

The first prize goes to Elisabeth Blackburn from the University of Birmingham in the UK, for her picture of an external vacuum chamber attached for rapid in situ sample change on the Birmingham 17 T cryomagnet.

The picture will be displayed on the front cover of the next issue of Inside NMI3.

2nd Illustrating NMI3 picture competition - second prize winner Sapphire gas pressure cell for real time in situ neutron powder diffraction of solid-gas reactions with hydrogen under high pressure on the high-intensity diffractometer D20 (ILL). The sample inside the sapphire single crystal is heated by two laser beams guided through the optics seen on the left and righthand side. Picture: Holger Kohlmann, Universität des Saarlandes.

Sapphire gas pressure cell on the high-intensity diffractometer D20, ILL

The second prize goes to Holger Kohlmann from Universität des Saarlandes in Germany for his picture of a sapphire gas pressure cell, on the high-intensity diffractometer D20 at the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL).

The picture will be displayed on the back cover of the next issue of Inside NMI3.

2nd Illustrating NMI3 picture competition - third prize winner 40 years of D11, the unique small angle neutron scattering (SANS) instrument: view of the new 40m long detector tank. Picture: Peter Lindner, ILL/Artechnique

SANS instrument D11 at ILL

The third prize goes to Peter Lindner for his picture of the new 40m long detector tank of the small angle neutron scattering (SANS) instrument D11, at ILL. The picture celebrates the 40 years of D11.

The picture will be displayed inside the newsletter Inside NMI3.

Three more pictures were selected as fourth-prize winners, to be displayed on the NMI3 website:

Alexis Chezière for his picture of a colleague on the three-axis spectrometer IN1 at ILL.

Nico Grimm from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) beautifully photographed a high precision temperature controlled sample cell.

Andrew Sanozov´s photograph of the new very intense polarized neutron diffractometer VIP on the hot source of the Orphée reactor, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB) also wins a fourth prize.