CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Olympus, a precision technology leader designing and delivering innovative solutions in Life Science Imaging Systems and Industrial Measuring instruments, has named Mr. Hidenao Tsuchiya as Vice President and General Manager of the Scientific Equipment Group in the Americas, effective April 25. Mr. Tsuchiya reports directly to Mr. Shin Nishigaki, President of […]

Hillsboro, Ore., USA and San Sebastian, Spain – FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading scientific instrumentation company, and the Basque Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center, nanoGUNE Consolider, are pleased to announce the installation of three new advanced electron microscope systems from FEI. nanoGUNE now has the world’s most advanced commercially-available microscope, the Titan™ scanning transmission electron […]

Transmission electron microscopes create magnified images of samples and are, in contrast to the light microscope, even able to resolve individual atoms. When transmitting a beam of electrons through a crystalline sample such as a complex mineral or a crystallized protein, the electrons are being diffracted in a specific way. Collecting such diffraction patterns of […]

Rochester, NY – Navitar Life Sciences, Inc., an affiliated entity of Navitar, Inc., a leading optics manufacturer, announced today they have entered into a binding agreement to acquire assets of Modulation Optics and their world-leading Hoffman Modulation Contrast® (HMC®) Imaging Technology. Modulation Optics, located in Glen Cove, New York, manufactures Hoffman Modulation Contrast microscope components […]

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, leader in etch, deposition and growth equipment, announces the promotion of Dan Ayres to General Manager. With over 10 years experience at Oxford Instruments, Dan was Operations Director at Plasma Technology before being promoted to this newly created role, and prior to that held roles in the fields of Supply Chain, […]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Bruker today announced the innovative and unique Dimension FastScanTM Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), which delivers a significant breakthrough in improved imaging speed without sacrificing nanoscale resolution. The Dimension FastScan enables users to work hundreds of times faster than is possible with other commercial AFM systems, delivering results in seconds or minutes […]

Hillsboro, Ore. – FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading instrumentation company providing systems for research and industry, today announced that it is extending its ChemiSTEM™ Technology to enable, for the first time, atomic-level energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy across the periodic table. The combination of increased current in an atomic-sized probe by Cs-correction and the […]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports that the University of Leipzig has chosen the CellHesion® 200 system for their Institute of Experimental Physics I. The research of the Institute of Experimental Physics I is focused on soft condensed matter as bulk material, in interaction […]

MELVILLE, N.Y. – Nikon Instruments, Inc. (www.nikoninstruments.com) today introduced its CFI60 Plan Apochromat Lambda Series objectives,now employing Nikon’s proprietary Nano-Crystal Coat technology to dramatically increase the transmission rate of this series across a broad spectrum range. This unique coating helps reduce flare and produce bright, sharp, high-contrast images across the entire range of wavelengths — […]

Chalfont St. Giles, UK – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Applied Precision, Inc., a supplier of innovative cellular imaging technologies for the fast-growing cell biology and biomedical research sectors. The acquisition of Applied Precision will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offering […]