Hillsboro, OR 11/14/11—Electron microscopy company FEI has acquired TILL Photonics, a supplier of high-resolution, digital light microscopes and high-speed imaging systems for live-cell fluorescence microscopy, for €14.5 million ($19.9 million = €0.73 = $1) plus an earn out payable in two years based on milestones. In 2011, TILL is expected to have revenues of $8 […]
Company Announcements In July, Carl Zeiss received a license from the University of California at San Francisco for “Multidirectional Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy,” an advanced illumination technique for light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM). The company is currently developing an LSFM system for multidimensional, ultrafast and long-term time lapse imaging of live specimens. Retroactive to June […]
It is just six months since Pittcon, and IBO’s last review article on new product introductions (see IBO 3/31/11, 4/15/11), and already there is a new and lengthy list of notable new products. In this article, IBO highlights some of the product launches of the last six months based on their potential commercial and technical […]
In what continues to be a busy acquisition period, another set of publicly held analytical instrument companies is set to become one. On September 8, PerkinElmer announced an agreement to acquire Caliper Life Sciences for an estimated $600 million in cash (see page 2). The companies’ complementary product lines and end-markets are a logical combination, […]
Microscopy is one of the oldest lab techniques, originating in 17th century Europe. The earliest microscopes used only a single lens to focus light, but the technique evolved into more elaborate systems of lenses. Although improvements in design and optics allowed microscopes to achieve greater magnifications, there is a physical limit to the magnification that […]
Company Announcements In April, Olympus named Hidenao Tsuchiya vice president and general manager of its Scientific Equipment Group in the Americas. He was most recently the division manager for the Life Science Business Division of the Life Science and Industrial Systems Group. In June, Carl Zeiss entered into an agreement enabling it to offer Digital […]
“The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco.” Popularly attributed to Mark Twain, this witticism could well describe the Bay Area weather during Semicon West/Intersolar 2011, which was about ten degrees cooler than average for the season. Fortunately, the atmosphere inside Moscone Center, which hosted the joint semiconductor and […]
Company Announcements FEI and CEA-Leti announced in March a three-year agreement to characterize advanced semiconductor materials for the 22 nm technology node. Research will focus on the use of holography to improve the sensitivity of dopant profiling and the use of nanobeam diffraction techniques to measure changes in strain and other crystallographic parameters. In March, […]
Although there have been benchtop electron microscope products on the market for some time, the modern resurgence of benchtop electron microscopy began in 2005 with the release of Hitachi High-Technologies’ TM-1000. The TM-1000 is a scanning electron microscope providing magnification power of up to 10,000X, which is roughly an order of magnitude greater than can […]
From its start as a niche market supplier, WITec has evolved to cater to multiple, larger markets. The company supplies high-resolution microscopy techniques for applications in materials research and life science. Specific applications include thin-film analysis and the study of living cells in their physiological surroundings. “Nanotechnology, life science, biomedical research and pharmaceutical research can […]
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