FEI’s Helios Family has lead the DualBeam technology race and is widely used across the semiconductor, materials science, life sciences and oil & gas industries Hillsboro, Ore.—FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) today announced a milestone of the 1,000th Helios™ DualBeam system shipped since the product family was introduced in 2006. The 1,000th system was manufactured in FEI’s […]

HILLSBORO, Ore. — FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) today announced that at the special meeting of FEI’s shareholders held on August 30, 2016, its shareholders overwhelmingly approved the previously announced acquisition of FEI by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO). The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2016, subject to the satisfaction of customary […]

COLUMBIA, MD. — Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) announces the release of the AIM-9000 infrared microscope. With automated analysis functions and an enhanced wide field camera option, the microscope enables analysts of all experience levels to observe, measure, and analyze micro samples quickly and efficiently. Laboratories can use this microscope system to perform high-sensitivity analysis in […]

Newton, NJ – Thorlabs has announced the release of its new do-it-yourself modular microscopy platform, Cerna. With over 100 products in the line, Cerna users can easily combine Thorlabs’ optomechanical platform with their choice of optical, electronic, motion control, and vision parts to construct an imaging system that is tailored to their specific applications. With […]

SANTA CLARA, CA Park Systems, world leading manufacturer of Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) today announced Park NX20 300mm, the first and only research AFM on the market capable of scanning the entire sample area of 300 mm wafers using a 300 mm vacuum chuck while keeping the system noise level below 0.5angstrom (Å) RMS. The […]

Shimadzu Corporation acquired SINC (SINC do Brasil Instrumentaçâo Cientifica Ltda.), a local distributor, via its Brazilian sales subsidiary SBL (Shimadzu do Brasil Comercio Ltda.) on April 29. Shimadzu has invested US$ 12 million in SBL, not only to purchase SINC but also to move its headquarters to Barueri in the state of Sao Paulo. This […]

On June 17, Shimadzu Corporation (Kyoto, Japan; President Teruhisa Ueda) held an opening ceremony and started operations at Shimadzu Manufacturing Asia Sdn. Bhd. (SMA), Shimadzu’s new analytical and measuring instruments manufacturing plant in Malaysia. The new manufacturing subsidiary was incorporated in Malaysia in January 2015. It is a major part of Shimadzu’s efforts to drive […]

MAHWAH, NJ – EDAX Inc., a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation, continues to lead the industry with its recent release of OIM™ Analysis 8.0. Widely established as the premier microstructural visualization and analysis tool for the interrogation and understanding of EBSD mapping data, OIM™ Analysis now includes multiple new features that enable […]

Virtual reality solutions are regarded as important drivers for future technological developments. ZEISS in close collaboration with arivis AG now offers its customers a unique virtual reality application for microscopy. Modern ZEISS light-, electron-, und X-ray microscopes are able to image large sample volumes non-destructively and in high resolution, resulting in large volumes of imaging […]

Hillsboro, Ore. and Ithaca, NY — FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) and Cornell University have entered an agreement to commercialize a new high dynamic range detector for FEI’s electron microscopes. It promises to enable new kinds of multichannel imaging and analysis that have not been possible previously. FEI expects to complete the commercialization of the design and […]