IndustryNews
Buehler Reduces Price by up to 45 Percent on ReVe
-l Diamond Abrasive Grinding Discs
Effective immediately, Buehler has lowered the price of its ReVēl (“reveal”) diamond abrasive grinding/polishing discs by up to 45 percent. Total savings may vary, as each global region and associated distributors set pricing independently. Buehler announced
the new price structure as the first of several customer-focused activities celebrating its 75th Diamond Anniversary. ReVēl discs feature revolutionary diamond abrasive nanotechnology that creates a simultaneous material removal/polishing action.
Buehler
www.buehler.com
XEI Scientific Announces Shipment of 1000th Evactron System
XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, announced today that with the final shipments of 2010, they have fulfilled orders bringing the total number of Evactron systems delivered to more than 1,000 units worldwide. Currently, XEI is introducing in situ technology for use in transmission electron microscopy by means of the TEM WandT.
XEI Scientific Inc
www.evactron.com
Linkam Controlled Shear Stage Chosen to Study the Effects of Temperature and Shear Flow in Isotactic Polypropylene at the University of Salerno
Linkam Scientific Instruments have been chosen by the University of Salerno as suppliers of a controlled shear system to study the effect of temperature and steady shear flow on the nucleation rate of spherulites in isotactic polypropylene. Te CSS450 optical
shearing system allows structural dynamics of complex fluids to be directly observed via a standard light microscope.
Linkam Scientific Instruments Limit
http://www.linkam.co.uk
Excelitas Technologies Announces Breakthrough Performance Results with its Solid State Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) Technology
Excelitas Technologies, which customizes optoelectronics to OEMs seeking high-performance technology solutions, announced today that it has achieved record, world-class performance results for high photon detection efficiency (PDE) and low dark counts in the development and commercialization of its solid state silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) technology. SiPMs are an important element in Excelitas’s low light level detection (L3D) suite of technologies and products targeting the medical and analytical market space.
Excelitas Technologies
www.excelitas.com
2011 May •
www.microscopy-today.com
Olympus to Sell Microscope and Imaging Products Directly in 14 Additional States; Leeds Precision Instruments to Focus on Forensics, Accessories, and Service
Olympus has announced that it has begun to sell its biomedical and industrial microscopes and imaging instruments directly throughout 14 additional states, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Michigan. Until now, these areas have been served by Minneapolis-based Leeds Precision Instruments, Inc., which has been a long-time Olympus dealer.
Olympus America Inc
www.olympusamerica.com
Allied Vision Technologies Posts Record Sales and Growth for 2010
In the past year, Allied Vision Technologies broke all its sales and growth records. Te company generated $58.8 million, about 58% more than in the previous year. New products together with the identification and exploitation of new markets contributed decisively to such growth. In so doing, Allied Vision Technologies successfully introduced two new camera families to the market in 2010: the Prosilica GX at the upper end and the high-volume model Manta.
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
www.alliedvisiontec.com
The University of Nottingham Selects JPK’s Innovative ForceRobot System for Single-Molecule and Biopharmaceutical Applications
JPK Instruments report on the first work from the University of Nottingham who have chosen the ForceRobot® 300 system for their School of Pharmacy. Te Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis (LBSA), a multidisciplinary research division within the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham, is one of the world's leading scanning probe microscopy groups, having published several hundred groundbreaking papers over the last twenty years.
JPK Instruments
www.jpk.com
Max Planck Institute and Asylum Research Organize 2nd International Workshop for Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Applications
Te workshop, to be held June 8–10, 2011, at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, will focus on sharing innovative research involving characterization of microscopic mechanisms underpinning solar cell, battery, and fuel cell operations. Te meeting will include invited/ contributed talks and poster sessions, plus equipment
labs
featuring Asylum’s CypherTM and MFP-3DTM SPM/AFMs. See
www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/symposium/spm2011 for infor- mation on agenda and registration.
Asylum Research
www.asylumresearch.com.
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