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 America in June named Hitschfel Instruments as a US distributor for industrial microscopes in central and southern Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and greater Memphis.

The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill opened the UNC-Olympus Research Imaging Center, which is devoted to life science imaging, in June.

In June, Nikon Instruments opened its first microscopy center in Central Europe at the Hungarian Academy of Science KOKE’s Institute of Experimental Medicine.

Carl Zeiss AG announced that Dr. Michael Kaschke, member of the Executive Board, will become president and CEO effective January 1, 2011.

Product Introductions

Carl Zeiss launched the ATLAS hardware and software package for SEM imaging of large-area specimens with nanometer resolution.

Carl Zeiss introduced the EVO HD SEM, featuring higher source brightness.

EDAX released OIM 6.0, stating it is the first microanalysis package to be written for 64-bit processor and Microsoft Windows 7 compatibility with datasets reaching over 40 million data points.

Veeco Instruments introduced the BioScope Catalyst Perfusing State Incubator for live cell studies.

Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the QuasOr electron backscatter diffraction system as an option for the NORAN System 7.

JPK Instruments introduced the NanoWizard 3 BioScience, its third-generation BioAFM system, featuring the HyperDrive fluid-imaging technique with low tip-sample interaction.

Veeco Instruments launched the IRIS (Integrated Raman Imaging System) models for its Innova and BioScope Catalyst AFMs, for compatibility with inverted optical microscopes from Zeiss, Leica, Olympus and Nikon and Raman systems from HORIBA Scientific, Renishaw and Princeton Instruments.

JEOL released a new Cold Field Emission Gun for its JEM-ARM200F transmission electron microscope.

Sales/Orders of Note

Nanosurf announced in June the delivery of its 1000th scanning tunneling microscope to the Claude-Dornier-Schule high school in Germany.