Company Announcements NT-MDT announced that its US sales of scanning probe microscopes increased threefold in 2010. Sales in Europe grew more than 35%. Daniel McGee was named president of Carl Zeiss Nano Technology Systems’ North American operations in February. JPK Instruments appointed Lotis Korea as its exclusive Korean distributor and KL Analytical as its exclusive […]
Atomic Spectrometry LECO introduced two elemental analyzers for applications involving metals, alloys and other inorganic samples: the CS844 for carbon/sulfur measurements and the ONH836 for measuring oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. Improvements in the combustion furnace, detector systems and cleaning automation have been combined with touch-screen control. The CS844 is priced at $65,000 and began shipment […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker’s S8 Dragon wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (WD-XRF) system combines a conventional array of wavelength detectors dedicated for elements of particular interest with a multielement energy dispersive detector (the Bruker XFlash, more commonly used for energy dispersive spectrometry [EDS] microanalysis) to provide simultaneous measurement of the remaining elements. A complete run takes […]
Company Announcements Hitachi High-Technologies filed a new suit in September 2010 in Tokyo District Court to request damages related to its charges of infringement by FEI Japan of focused ion beam patents. This suit involves different patent rights than an earlier suit (see IBO 7/15/10). FEI is collaborating with Nanonics Imaging to explore the possibility […]
The surface science technology category contains a broad range of instrument types, from optical microscopes, whose origins date back to the rise of modern science, to instruments based on modern techniques in optical, electron and ion optics that are only just being commercialized. Overall, the surface science market is forecast to achieve growth of 6.1% […]
Company Announcements Phenom-World BV named Struers A/S as its exclusive distributor for Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. In September, Thermo Fisher Scientific established a sales and support office for microanalysis products at its UK commercial headquarters in Hemel Hempstead. In October, Olympus America began selling and servicing its microscopes directly in the region surrounding its […]
Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) is also known as electron microprobe analysis (EMPA). Among surface scientists, the technique is familiarly known as microprobe or even just “probe.” EPMA falls into the broad category of instruments for surface analysis that uses beams to investigate the surface of sample. In the case of EPMA, an electron beam is […]
Company Announcements McCrone Microsocopes & Accessories announced in May that it is a licensed distributor of the JEOL NeoScope benchtop scanning electron microscope (SEM). Hamilton Thorne announced in May a vendor partnership with Leica Microsystems GmbH under which Leica will market and distribute Hamilton Thorne’s core laser products and select products in North America. Olympus […]
Billerica, MA 8/16/10; Plainview, NY 8/16/10—Bruker has agreed to acquire Veeco Instruments’ Metrology business, consisting of its scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and optical industrial metrology (OIM) instruments, for $229 million in cash. In 2011, the business is forecast to contribute revenues of more than $130 million and adjusted operating margins of greater than 15%. Bruker […]
It is rare that a company divests a business with the number one position in the market, but Veeco Instruments’ agreement to sell its Metrology business to Bruker (see page 2) is just such a case. Veeco holds a dominant share in the scanning probe microscopy (SPM) market, of which the biggest segment is atomic […]
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