Auburn, MA — As a nanopositioning and motion control systems leader, PI’s (Physik Instrumente) PInano™ super resolution (SR) microscope stage series is now available in two variations – High Precision with piezoresistive position feedback sensors and High Precision with High Stability based on capacitive feedback sensors. Higher Stability and Linearity with Capacitive Sensors, and Lower […]

Nanoscience Instruments, an industry leader supplying scientific instrumentation, recently added four new scientists to its Sales and Applications teams. These new employees provide additional support at the laboratories in Arizona and Virginia. This expansion also establishes a new presence in southern California and New England. Cliff Mathisen brings to the team a variety of technology […]

Oxford Instruments, the World’s leading Gunshot Residue analysis system provider, has launched AZtecGSR, its next generation solution for automated GSR analysis in the SEM. AZtecGSR provides faster, more accurate results to the internationally recognised standard, ASTM E1588?-?10e1. According to Dr Christian Lang, Solutions Business Manager, “The focus of AZtecGSR has been to dramatically improve the […]

Wetzlar, Germany. Markus Lusser is the new President and Director of Leica Microsystems, headquartered in Wetzlar, Germany. This appointment became effective July 1, 2015. He succeeds Andries Peter Jan van den Broek who has left the company. Before joining Leica Microsystems, Markus Lusser was Vice President Global Sales and Customer Support with Sciex. Sciex produces […]

Woolpit, United Kingdom: Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, reports on the use of the CT5000 tensile/compression stage at the Centre for X-ray Tomography at Ghent University in Belgium where it is used for tensile and compressive strength tests on geomaterials. Professor Veerle Cnudde […]

REDWOOD CITY, CA. —— XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, has appointed EM Resolutions Limited as their exclusive distributor for their decontamination products in the UK & Ireland. XEI Scientific has appointed a new distributor for the UK and Irish markets. Founded […]

Oxford Instruments, a world leader in microanalysis systems, has launched X-Max Extreme, a Silicon Drift Detector that promises to be a breakthrough solution for ultra high resolution FEG and FIB-SEM applications. This unique detector for the first time enables EDS data collection at very low kV (e.g. between 1kV and 3kV) and a very short […]

BILLERICA, Mass. — Bruker (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced the release of the Opterra II™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope, which represents the next generation of quantitative live-cell microscopes. The Opterra II’s low photo-toxicity and photo-bleaching capabilities deliver significant advantages over today’s spinning disk confocal approaches, including enabling time-lapsed volumetric studies on previously inaccessible specimens. This performance […]

JENA/Germany, UNTERSCHLEIßHEIM/Germany — New microscopy technologies, such as light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) or clearing methods, allow the imaging of large samples at high resolution or high frame rates. Handling, processing, and analyzing these multi-terabyte data sets has become increasingly difficult for scientists, e.g. in developmental biology and neuroscience. New tools are needed to overcome […]