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New Research Report on Worldwide Markets for Microscopes

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. World Microscopes Market report analyzes the worldwide markets for Microscopes in Millions of US$. The specific product segments analyzed are Optical Microscopes, Charged Particle Microscopes, and Scanning Probe Microscopes.

From Veeco 13 Mar 2009

Carl Zeiss ORION Plus Helium-Ion-Microscope Now Offers Structural and Compositional Analysis

Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of optical and particle-beam inspection, analysis and measuring equipment, today introduced a powerful new detector for the ORION® Plus helium-ion-microscope. Called the SPECTRA, the new detector adds structural and compositional analysis capabilities to the sub-nanometer resolution imaging offered by the ORION Plus instrument.

9 Mar 2009

ASU to House One of the World's Most Advanced Electron Microscopes

Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science and materials science and engineering.

8 Mar 2009

PI Introduces New Hard-Cover Catalog "Piezo Nano Positioning Inspirations 2009"

Nanopositioning + Piezo Technology Specialist PI, has issued the 2009 hard-cover catalog entitled "Piezo Nano Positioning Inspirations 2009".

5 Mar 2009

Cascade Microtech Production Qualifies ESI's Laser Probe Tip Cleaning System

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced its LaserMill system has been production qualified for the cleaning of Cascade Microtech's advanced probe tips. Based on the success of the system, Cascade Microtech - a leading provider of advanced wafer probing solutions - has implemented the LaserMill as the process tool of record for probe tip cleaning in its Beaverton, Ore. manufacturing facility.

3 Mar 2009

World's First Proven Ultrasound Holographic Imaging Allows Correction of Subsurface Defects

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today joined with Northwestern University to announce successful demonstration of a unique ultrasound holography approach that enables scientists to view the tiniest of buried structures.

3 Mar 2009

New PicoQuant module offers highly flexible FLIM and FCS analyses

Olympus has announced that its FluoView FV1000 confocal laser scanning microscope (cLSM) and FV1000MPE Multiphoton ranges can now be fitted with the PicoQuant module for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS).

From Picoquant GmbH 3 Mar 2009

Optical Techniques Show Continued Promise in Detecting Pancreatic Cancer

Optical technology developed by a Northwestern University professor of biomedical engineering has been shown to be effective in detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer through analysis of neighboring tissue in the duodenum, according to clinical trial results published in the journal Disease Markers.

2 Mar 2009

Researchers Reveal Individual Fluorescent Color Centers in Diamonds using STED Microscopy

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen has now probed these color centers inside the crystal with unprecedented resolution using an optical microscope. Using STED microscopy, the scientists identified even densely packed color centers and determined their position inside the crystal with a precision better than 0.15 nanometers, corresponding to the dimension of an atom.

2 Mar 2009

Carl Zeiss Microscopes to Travel Across Europe

Carl Zeiss is sending its latest microscope systems on a tour of universities and institutes throughout Europe. The ZEISS on Your Campus Tour gives microscope users the opportunity to become familiar with the systems and the latest microscopy techniques and methods in several- day workshops and try them out on site.

27 Feb 2009