Salisbury, UK, April 2008 – NanoSight Limited, the nanoparticle characterization company, has recently received their 100th purchase order for their unique nanoparticle tracking analysis system which counts individual particles in liquid. Professor Steffen Petersen of the University of Aalborg in Denmark has selected the NanoSight LM10 to study the build-up of multi-layered, targeted nanoparticle drug […]

MIGDAL HA’EMEK, Israel–Jordan Valley Semiconductors LTD, a provider of semiconductor metrology solutions, has acquired the business of Bede, effective Monday, April 14th. Bede is the leading supplier of HRXRD (High Resolution XRD) metrology for the semiconductor and compound industries with revenues of $11.6M in 2007. Bede entered into the UK’s Administration phase, their equivalent of […]

HILLSBORO, Ore. & MADISON, Wis., Apr 14, 2008 — FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC) and Imago Scientific Instruments today announced a comprehensive collaboration on the distribution and marketing of Imago’s LEAP(TM) product line. The arrangements allow for FEI to establish an equity position in Imago and the option to purchase Imago in the future. The alliance […]

Supreme milling. Third column makes NVision 40 even more versatileRTF Documents ALBUQUERQUE/New Mexico/USA , 04.08.2008. To enable the production of highly polished TEM lamellas Carl Zeiss SMT now offers an additional Argon ion beam column to its successful NVison 40 CrossBeam workstation. Highly polished TEM lamellas are a prerequisite for successful analysis of specimens in […]

WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 15 — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO – News), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has acquired SwissAnalytic Group AG, based in Basel, Switzerland. SwissAnalytic Group owns Spectronex AG and Flux Instruments AG, which had combined revenue of approximately $22 million USD in fiscal year 2006. Spectronex is […]

Hamburg, Germany 7/24/06—Evotec Tools and Technologies, a unit of EvotecAG, has sold “the core” of its single molecule detection technology for cellular applications to Olympus. The portfolio consists of intellectual property utilizing confocal detection methods for single molecule drug discovery and gener-ated 2005 revenues of approximately €2.5 million ($3.2 million). Evotec will continue to market […]

Oberkochen, Germany and Peabody, MA 7/19/06—Carl Zeiss SMT AG’s Nanotechnology Systems Division has acquired ALIS, developer of the Looking Glass LG-2 helium ion microscope. “The Helium ion microscopy technology developed by ALIS complements our market leading scanning electron microscopy(SEM) technology and will be a key element of our future technology road map. It offers unrivalled […]

PAOLI, Pa.–Taylor Hobson, a unit of AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME – News), has joined with the UK Government in supporting a national Centre of Excellence in metrology for micro and nanotechnologies at Taylor Hobson’s Leicester, England, headquarters. Taylor Hobson, a leader in the manufacture of ultra-precision measurement instrumentation, has joined with the UK Department of Trade […]

Berlin- Berlin-based JPK Instruments AG and Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG from Karlsruhe can look back on five years of successful collaboration. JPK Instruments decided in the early development phase of the company to bet on the technology of the market leader PI. From the very first, JPK’s NanoWizard® atomic force microscopes were […]