New products designed to help semiconductor failure analysis labs achieve higher volumes of samples and faster time-to-data HILLSBORO, Ore. – For semiconductor manufacturers seeking fast, high-quality electrical and physical failure analysis, Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced three new additionsto its broad portfolio of semiconductor failure analysis workflows. The company will demonstrate these products and its other market-leading […]

Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President, Tokyo) announced a revision of its business segments as part of organizational reform as of today. These business segment changes will be reflected in the company’s consolidated financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018. Old Segments Segment Business Unit Precision Equipment Business Semiconductor […]

Leica Microsystems releases the scanning stage LMT350 ultra and introduces Leica LMD application Software V8.0.1 The latest hardware and software features for the Leica LMDsystems reveal key new advantages in terms of sample throughput with standard 96-well plates and the devices’ ease of use. These advantages are made possible by the release of the new […]

JEOL Ltd. (President Gon-emon Kurihara) announces the release of a new field-emission cryo-electron microscope, the JEM-Z300FSC (CRYO ARM™ 300), to be released in June 2017. Product development background The cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM) now enables “near atomic scale” structural analysis of viruses and proteins. Under this circumstance, much higher stability is required for hardware and software of the […]

Etaluma and DRVision Ink Partnership on Combining Lumascope (LS Microscope) Live Cell Imaging with Aivia Image Visualization and Analysis (Carlsbad, CA) Today Etaluma and DRVision announced a strategic partnership that combines the power of imaging by Etaluma’s next generation inverted LS microscopes (Lumascopes) and DRVision’s innovative image visualization, analysis and data exploration technology called Aivia. […]

JEOL Ltd. (President Gon-emon Kurihara) and Tohoku University (President Susumu Satomi) formally started a collaboration on “Research and development of Soft X-Ray Emission Spectrometer and the construction of spectrum database” in April 1, 2017. The Soft X-Ray Emission Spectrometer (SXES) is an ultra-high resolution spectrometer for electron microscope consists of a newly-developed diffraction grating and […]

The Raman imaging company WITec celebrates its 20 th Anniversary. It was founded in 1997 as a 3-person spin-off from the Physics Department of the University of Ulm and has grown into a company of 60 employees including the Ulm headquarters and its branch offices in Spain, China, Japan, Singapore and the USA. As reflected […]

Sheffield, UK: Phasefocus provides a range of products and services based on its proprietary Ptychographic Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) technology to provide a wide range of analytical applications including label-free cell imaging and quantitative electron phase microscopy. Here, they report on the Light Microscopy Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute’s selection of the […]

TESCAN GAIA in Fabrinet – A Trusted Manufacturing Partner of the World’s Most Demanding OEMs Fabrinet is a company focused on manufacturing components and modules for optical communication systems as well as industrial lasers and sensors. It has become a trusted manufacturing partner for the world’s most demanding OEMs. Fabrinet now provides manufacturing, packaging, process […]

LA JOLLA–The Salk Institute’s Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center and ZEISS announced today a global partnership to accelerate the frontiers of microscopy and imaging technologies. The Waitt Center, launched in 2011 with a landmark $20 million gift from Salk Board Chair Ted Waitt’s Waitt Foundation and supported by federal grants, serves as a state-of-the-art research hub, […]