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Technology that Could Accelerate Scanning Probe Microscopes by Factor of 1000

Since more than twenty years, scanning force microscopes are employed in research and industry. Their enormous resolution triggered many applications in nanotechnology. Their rather low image rate is however a disadvantage - changing objects and processes cannot be imaged.

1 Apr 2010

PNNL and AIST Places Order for ORION PLUS Helium-Ion Microscopes from Carl Zeiss

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is bringing an ORION® PLUS instrument into the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory as a resource. And, in Tsukuba, Japan, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has selected an ORION PLUS for their new Nanodevice Innovation Research Center.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 31 Mar 2010

Nanogea Presents Results of its Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Study

Nanogea, a nano-biotechnology company focused on commercializing the industry's most sensitive single molecular detection platform, is pleased to announce results regarding its Prostate Cancer diagnostic study.

31 Mar 2010

UIC to Become First University to Own New Generation Electron Microscope

The University of Illinois at Chicago will become the first university in the world to have a new generation of electron microscope, promising views up to three times sharper than instruments now commonly used and provid...

31 Mar 2010

Fluorescence Microscopy for Observing Objects on the Nanoscale

The imaging of living cells at the molecular level was barely a dream twenty years ago. Today, however, this dream is close to becoming reality. In the Max Planck Institute for NanoBiophotonics in Göttingen, Stefan ...

26 Mar 2010

Z-Contrast STEM Helps Scientists in Distinguishing Individual Light Atoms

Using the latest in aberration-corrected electron microscopy, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their colleagues have obtained the first images that distinguish individual l...

25 Mar 2010

WITec Introduces Line Extension of Alpha300 Microscope Series

WITec introduces a line extension of the alpha300 microscope series. Building on the system's inherent modularity, WITec has added several new microscope versions in order to meet all the diverse and multi-faceted customer requirements one may encounter.

From Oxford Instruments WITec 22 Mar 2010