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 Materials Analysis product lines in Australia and New Zealand.

ZEISS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus signed an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy, which makes light-sheet technology applicable to cell biology.

Product Introductions

Hitachi High-Technologies introduced in August the TM3030Plus Tabletop Microscope, featuring a low-vacuum secondary electron detector capable of revealing fine sample-surface–detail information.

Hitachi High-Technologies launched the AFM5000II SPM Controller, featuring the Real Tunell automeasurement-parameter–tuning function and a new user interface.

Protochips released the Atmosphere 200, a complete environmental-gas cell system with the capability of generating up to one atmosphere of pressure within a microscope while still maintaining atomic resolution.

CAMECA launched the LEAP 5000 atom probe microscope for 3-D nanoscale surface, bulk and interfacial material analysis, featuring a redesigned detection system, and a more robust and ergonomic platform.

Park Systems introduced the Park XE7-CR, an affordable, research-grade AFM for research and education. It comes fully bundled with classroom teaching materials.

In September, Shimadzu launched the EPMA-8050G electron-probe microanalyzer, featuring changes to the electron gun for improved spatial resolution.

FEI introduced the Helios NanoLab G3 DualBeam FIB/SEM, available in two different workflow-specific configurations for materials-science research and featuring a new user interface.

FEI released the Teneo VS SEM with VolumeScope, an in-chamber microtome and analytical software to provide fully automated, large-volume reconstructions with improved z-axis resolution.

ZEISS introduced the Mineralogic Reservoir system, an automated petrophysical analyzer for fully quantitative data from reservoir-characterization and -exploration studies.

Sales/Orders of Note

Hitachi High-Technologies announced shipments of over 2,700 Tabletop Microscopes as of September.