This year, Pittcon was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 7 to March 12. Unfortunately, the location did not appear to help attendance. According to the preliminary figures available as of March 9, total attendance was down 15.8% from last year, when the location was Chicago, Illinois (see IBO 3/31/14), to 13,683. The number […]
Company Announcements Rosario National University in Argentina opened the Nikon International Center for Microscopy and Excellence in Latin America in December 2014, the first such site in Latin America. JPK Instruments opened its first US-based offices in Southern California in January. ZEISS sublicensed its Lattice light-sheet microscopy rights to Intelligent Imaging Innovations. ZEISS Microscopy revenue […]
The market for surface-science techniques consists of five individual technology segments made up of instruments that provide 2-D and 3-D imaging of microscopic samples. Traditional optical microscopes are the largest individual market, but other varieties of microscopes are also considered in this segment. Growth for the surface-science market is expected to be over 4% in […]
Company Announcements FEI opened a nearly 300,000 ft2, $38 million technology center in Brno, Czech Republic, in September. The facility expands the company’s operations in the city, employs around 600 people and is responsible for about 60% of the company’s electron-microscope production. In October, Yale University and Leica Microsystems opened a microscopy Center of Excellence. […]
Company Announcements JH Technologies and Leica Microsystems expanded their regional coverage for industrial, educational and forensic customers in August to include Southern California. McBain Systems will expand their service capability and continue to serve as the Leica regional service organization for the Western US. Thermo Fisher Scientific named AXT as a distributor of its Nano-scale […]
Company Announcements Digital Surf acquired Image Metrology in July. Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments company, named Carl Zeiss Microscopy as a US distributor for the Imaris image-processing software. FEI’s second quarter sales grew 6.5% to $237.0 million (see IBO 7/31/14), including 1.4% growth from acquisitions. Currency decreased sales by 0.2%. Adjusted operating profit rose 14.1% to […]
Company Announcements For the fiscal first quarter ending June 30, Hitachi High-Technologies Science and Medical Systems (SMS) sales climbed 33% to ¥38.8 billion ($380.1 million = ¥102.09 = $1) to account for 25% of company revenues (see IBO 7/31/14). Medical product sales jumped 53%, and sales of Biotechnology and Other products grew 16% to account […]
Company Announcements For the fiscal year ending March 31, revenue for Nikon’s Scientific Solutions Business (formerly Life Science and Industrial Systems) grew 15.2% to ¥98,510 million ($983 million), with 80% consisting of Industrial sales and 20% being Life Science sales. Fiscal 2015 segment sales are forecast to increase 5.6%. Zeiss Microscopy sales for the first […]
Each August, IBO selects the winners of the IBO Design Awards, recognizing the industrial design of analytical instruments, laboratory equipment (page 6) and portable instruments (page 7) that are notable for their enhancement of the user experience. The accomplishments are aesthetic in terms of the product’s visual appeal and novelty, yet the industrial design also […]
Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM or NSOM) is a form of scanning-probe microscopy (SPM) that provides light-based imaging of surfaces at better resolution than traditional light microscopy. With light microscopy, diffraction limits resolution to roughly 250 nm. SNOM instruments can have resolutions an order of magnitude greater, down to about 10 nm. In SPM, piezoelectric […]
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