Three research groups received the WITec PaperAward in gold, silver, and bronze.
WITec appoints the winners of the PaperAward 2013: Research groups from France, Germany, and Spain are among the winners. For WITec PaperAward 2013, 54 publications, published between January and December 2012, were submitted to this year's competition. Due to the number of high-quality papers, the PaperAward jury decided to recognize three winning papers in gold, silver, and bronze.
The PaperAward 2013 in gold goes to Dr. Léo Greusard from Institut Langevin ESPCI ParisTech and Dr. Raffaele Colombelli from the University Paris Sud. They successfully collaborated with researchers from Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon and the Joint lab of 'Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories France' and published in NANO letters "Constantini et al., In Situ Generation of the Surface Plasmon Polaritons Using a Near-Infrared Laser Diode". This scientific work convinced the jury by describing a novel application for scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM), which opens new opportunities in semiconductor research.
The WITec PaperAward in bronze goes to the research group of Prof. Dr. José F. Fernández from the Electroceramic Department, Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio in Madrid, Spain. Prof. Fernández and colleagues published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry in collaboration with researchers at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the paper "Rubio-Marcos et al., High spatial resolution structure of (K,Na)Nbo₃ lead-free ferroelectric domains". The jury chose their scientific work for the award because it shows the combination of Raman spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) as a powerful tool to investigate ferroelectric domains.
Every year scientists from all over the world are invited to submit their publications to the WITec PaperAward competition. Once a year, a jury of WITec scientists chooses the WITec PaperAward winner. Criteria to be selected by the jury are for example the impact of scientific results and the innovation of the applied techniques.
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Dr. Léo Greusard (left) from Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, France, receives the WITec PaperAward Certificate in gold from the WITec sales representative Nicolas Tcherbak (right). http://www.witec.de/assets/Uploads/Documents/News/2013/WITecPaperAwardGOLDGreusard2013.jpg
<>Dr. Christian Matthäus (left) visits WITec headquarters in Ulm, Germany, for the PaperAward Ceremony. Harald Fischer (right), WITec Marketing Director, hands over the PaperAward Certificate in silver and the 300 Euro Amazon gift card to him. http://www.witec.de/assets/Uploads/Documents/News/2013/WITecPaperAwardSILVERMatthaeus2013.jpg
Prof. Dr. José F. Fernández (left) and Dr. Adolfo Del Campo (right) receive the PaperAward Certificate in bronze.http://www.witec.de/assets/Uploads/Documents/News/2013/WITecPaperAwardBRONZEFernandez2013.jpg
WITec PaperAward 2013 winning publications:
Costantini, D., Greusard, L., Bousseksou, A., Rungsawang, R., Zhang, T. P., Callard, S., Decobert, J., et al. (2012). In situ generation of surface plasmon polaritons using a near-infrared laser diode. , 12(9), 4693-7. doi:10.1021/nl302040e
Matthaeus, C., Krafft, C., Dietzek, B., Brehm, B. R., Lorkowski, S., & Popp, J. (2012). Noninvasive imaging of intracellular lipid metabolism in macrophages by Raman microscopy in combination with stable isotopic labeling. Analytical Chemistry, 84(20), 8549-56. doi:10.1021/ac3012347
Rubio-Marcos, F., Del Campo, A., López-Juárez, R., Romero, J. J., & Fernández, J. F. (2012). High spatial resolution structure of (K,Na)NbO3 lead-free ferroelectric domains. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22(1), 9714-9720. doi:10.1039/c2jm30483j
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