It’s our pleasure to announce the winners of the application note award 2011:

The first place for the award and an iPod touch goes to Peter Hommelhoff and his research group: Ultrafast Quantum Optics at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching for the paper: "Controlling Electron Emission in Space and Time".

The second place is shared between two application notes on "Piezo-Response Force Microscopy" and the third place has been awarded to the paper on "Mapping and Manipulation of Leakage Currents".

The winners will be notified via email separately. We would like to thank all of our contestants for their many interesting and diversified submissions!