FEI Titan Awarded at Nano Tech 2008

FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., announced that its Titan 80-300 S/TEM (scanning/transmission electron microscope) received the award for technical excellence in evaluation and measurement at Nano Tech 2008, a nanotechnology conference held last month in Tokyo. Unlike conventional S/TEMs, which require complex computational procedures to reconstruct high resolution images, FEI said the Titan S/TEM's aberration-corrected electron optics provides directly interpretable image resolution at the atomic scale. "The introduction of aberration-corrected TEM is a major breakthrough that gives scientists the ability to directly visualize nanostructures with sub-angstrom imaging resolution. A new model with high resolution EELS (electron-energy-loss spectroscopy) that can provide analytical results with the same high resolution has also been put into practical use," said professor Tomoji Kawai, chairman of the Nano Tech executive committee. Koyo Iwasaki, country director for FEI Japan, accepted the award.

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Published: March 2008

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electron optics: The control of free electron movement through the use of electrical or magnetic fields, and use of this electron movement in research investigation of electronic diffraction phenomena, directly analogous to the control of light through the use of lenses.
microscope: An instrument consisting essentially of a tube 160 mm long, with an objective lens at the distant end and an eyepiece at the near end. The objective forms a real aerial image of the object in the focal plane of the eyepiece where it is observed by the eye. The overall magnifying power is equal to the linear magnification of the objective multiplied by the magnifying power of the eyepiece. The eyepiece can be replaced by a film to photograph the primary image, or a positive or negative relay...
nano: An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
photonics: The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
scanning electron microscope: A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a powerful imaging instrument used in scientific research, materials characterization, and various industrial applications. Unlike traditional optical microscopes, which use visible light to magnify and image specimens, SEMs use a focused beam of electrons to generate high-resolution images of a sample's surface. scanning electron microscope suppliers → The basic principle of operation involves focusing a beam of electrons onto the...
transmission electron microscope: A transmission electron microscope (TEM) is a powerful microscopy technique that uses a beam of electrons to create high-resolution images of extremely thin samples. In a TEM, electrons are transmitted through the sample rather than being bounced off its surface, as in scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The sample, typically prepared as an ultrathin section or a thin film, is placed in the path of the electron beam. As the electrons pass through the sample, they interact with its atoms,...

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