All articles from Carl Zeiss SMT AG

New Possibilities for Multiphoton Microscopy from Carl Zeiss
May 17, 2012

• Multiphoton confocal microscopes from Carl Zeiss now permit the simultaneous use of two NLO lasers or one laser with an optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Both components are fully integrated and expand the functionality of the multiphoton systems. In dual laser systems different laser wavelengths simultaneously excite several fluorescent dyes or proteins. Without time loss, users can image specimens with one wavelength and manipulate them in the multiphoton mode with another...

The Zoom Microscope Axio Zoom.V16 by Carl Zeiss
May 8, 2012

• With Axio Zoom.V16, Carl Zeiss is defining a new instrument class in microscopy. For the first time, zoom microscopes are now combining typical benefits of stereomicroscopes such as zoom optics and long working distances with the higher resolutions of light microscopes. In comparable image fields, Axio Zoom.V16 offers a 2.5 times higher resolution than stereomicroscopes. With a 16x zoom range, Axio Zoom.V16 surpasses all comparable microscopes currently available...

Carl Zeiss has received two orders for the extreme ultraviolet lithography system AIMS™ EUV
Apr 26, 2012

• Two out of four members of the SEMATECH EMI Partnership placed orders with Carl Zeiss to purchase an actinic aerial image metrology system AIMS^TM EUV for reviewing defects in advanced masks needed for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Intel, Samsung Electronics, and TSMC are the members of the SEMATECH EMI Partnership. According to the slot assignment two out of the four semiconductor companies have placed orders with Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division...
  

AURIGA Laser: Innovative Combination of FIB/SEM Technology with Laser Ablation for Fast Sample Preparation
Apr 5, 2012

• Carl Zeiss has launched the AURIGA® Laser, a new advanced system combining the specific advantages of the AURIGA® CrossBeam (FIB-SEM) workstation with the capabilities of a pulsed micro-focus laser for fast ablation of material. AURIGA® Laser is particularly useful for the examination of samples where the target structure is deeply buried under material layers. To gain access to the target structure this material needs to be removed - a procedure which is difficult to conduct with conventional techniques...

New Microsite Places Natural Resources Under the Microscope
Apr 5, 2012

• A microsite dedicated to the natural resource industries has been launched today by Carl Zeiss.  The sustainable use of natural resources is dependent upon improving the efficiency of the mining, refining and end production industries. The new microsite from Carl Zeiss addresses the challenges for natural resource industries and demonstrates how pioneering microscopy solutions can overcome these...
  
  

Assess Cell Cultures with Axio Vert.A1 from Carl Zeiss
Mar 6, 2012

• The Axio Vert.A1 is an inverted microscope from Carl Zeiss with extensive performance capabilities. For the first time, a compact cell culture microscope combines all standard contrasting techniques in a single stand. In transmitted light, the Axio Vert.A1 offers brightfield, phase contrast, polarization contrast, PlasDIC, VAREL and improved Hoffmann modulation contrast (iHMC). The microscope is the only system in its class to also offer differential interference contrast (DIC). This makes it possible to record very fine structures in cells, enabling users to better assess cell cultures...

Space-saving and integrated tablet image recording system for microscopes
Feb 29, 2012

• Tab4Lab comprises a touch pad and the required software. In combination with the AxioCam ERc 5s camera, the two components form an image recording system. The software is based on the established ZEN imaging software. It has been specially adapted to tablet PCs and can be operated via touchscreen. This minimizes both the learning curve and the time required for routine applications. The workflows are modeled on those used in clinical labs and in quality assurance in industry. The user interface is available in various languages...

ZEN Imaging Software from Carl Zeiss Now Expanded
Feb 22, 2012

• ZEN software was launched by Carl Zeiss for confocal laser scanning microscopes in 2007. The extremely logical structure of the ZEN user interface has received much praise and recognition from customers all over the world. Highly complex experiments can be designed and executed by users with minimal training and support...

Redesigned Scale Objective Lens from Carl Zeiss for Brain Research
Feb 5, 2012

• The completely redesigned plan-apochromatic 20x/1.0 VIS-IR objective lens from Carl Zeiss now makes it possible to acquire 3D images of nerve cells down to depths of 5.6 mm in intact tissue using a confocal laser scanning or multiphoton microscope, without having to section the brain. This permits the three-dimensional visualization of the branches of individual nerve cells and the imaging of their connections. In untreated tissue, the penetration depth now achievable is five to ten times more than that of a multiphoton microscope featuring traditional optics...

Carl Zeiss opens new customer office in South Korea
Feb 2, 2012

• Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities...

Carl Zeiss Celebrates 10 Years of CrossBeam FIB-SEM Technology
Jan 30, 2012

• University of Delaware receives tenth anniversary shipment Carl Zeiss Microscopy, a company of the Carl Zeiss Group and leading provider of light, laser-scanning and electron and ion beam microscopes, today announced the celebration of its tenth anniversary of the CrossBeam^© FIB-SEM technology. In honor of the tenth anniversary, a ceremony was held at the Center for Composite Materials at the University of Delaware, who have acquired an AURIGA 60 CrossBeam workstation. The system is the first major acquisition...

Carl Zeiss Microscopes help to Conserve Britain's Most Fragile Treasure
Jan 18, 2012

• Britain's oldest and largest specialist stained glass conservation studio has recently embarked upon the conservation of York Minster's Great East Window with help from Carl Zeiss microscopes. The York Glaziers Trust chose a pair of Stemi DV4 Spot microscopes to investigate surface corrosion on Britain's largest expanse of medieval stained glass and the Zeiss AxioCam to record the phenomena for future reference...

First Carl Zeiss App Launched
Jan 17, 2012

• Light Lab, the first accompanying app for ZEN 2011 imaging software from Carl Zeiss, is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Light Lab supplements the ZEN 2011 controlling and image processing software functions within the experimental lab workflow. The app supports the configuration of fluorescence experiments in both confocal and light microscopy. The user can also access all product brochures, social media channels and microscopy activities of Carl Zeiss. Light Lab utilizes information on the current location and notifies the user of the closest contact person for Support and Service...

A new microscope class with a bright future
Jan 11, 2012

• With the Axio Zoom.V16, Carl Zeiss is defining a new instrument class in microscopy.  For the first time, zoom microscopes are now combining typical benefits of stereomicroscopes such as zoom optics and long working distances with the higher resolutions of traditional light microscopes.  In comparable image fields, the Axio Zoom.V16 offers a 2.5 times higher resolution and ten times brighter fluorescence than stereomicroscopes...

Carl Zeiss Revenue Tops Four Billion Euro Mark for Very First Time
Jan 2, 2012

• Carl Zeiss Group continues to invest in technology, infrastructure and internationalization

  • Employees benefit from company's success
  • Vision Care business group fully consolidated
  • Well positioned against background of global economic uncertainty

Carl Zeiss Opens New Chapter in Microscopy
Nov 28, 2011

• New Microscopy business group is launched – "The world's only one-stop shop for light and electron microscopy" The start of the new 2011/12 fiscal year also marked the launch of Carl Zeiss Microscopy. 2,500 employees of MicroImaging und Nano Technology Systems now form the new business group in the Carl Zeiss Group. In the future the company will be the world's only supplier to offer one-stop, innovative systems and solutions for light and electron microscopy...

Fascinating Images Reveal Climbing Abilities of Geckos and Spiders
Nov 17, 2011

• Scientists from Lewis and Clark College, working collaboratively with the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) in the USA have examined the fascinating climbing skills of geckos and spiders using the ORION helium ion microscope from Carl Zeiss. High resolution images displaying unique definition and detail rendition reveal even the finest structures on the feet of these animals.  This imaging advances the understanding of how the masterly climbing skills of these creatures are attributable to adhesive forces or, in other words, intermolecular attractions...

Carl Zeiss Grants Sublicense for LED Fluorescence Excitation to Prior Scientific Ltd.
Oct 26, 2011

• Effective retroactively to 1 June 2011, the Microscopy business group of Carl Zeiss has granted a sublicense for patents relating to LED fluorescence excitation in microscopy to Prior Scientific Ltd., Cambridge, UK. These patents protect the use of light emitting diodes for the excitation of fluorescence radiation in light microscopes. The property rights, which are valid in the USA and Canada, were acquired by Carl Zeiss in 2005...

Carl Zeiss Honored for Delivering ‘World-Class’ Customer Service
Oct 24, 2011

• Carl Zeiss Nano Technology Systems, a company of the Carl Zeiss Group and leading global provider of electron and ion beam microscopes, today announced that it has been awarded the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from Omega Management Group Corp. in recognition of achieving excellence in customer service and support in 2010...

Carl Zeiss supports best-selling author to publicise Plankton
Sep 29, 2011

• Images from Royal Society Research Fellow, Dr Richard Kirby, selected by Royal Photographic Society for their International Images for Science Exhibition 2011 and Royal Society Summer Exhibition...

Carl Zeiss helps pupils focus on their World
Sep 16, 2011

• Children at Longworth Primary School in Oxfordshire were treated recently to the sight of everyday objects from the world around them in exquisite detail, thanks to a live microscopy workshop organised by Carl Zeiss. The event was the brainchild of Dr Oliver Clarke, a Business Manager at Carl Zeiss, and was held as part of the school's Summer Fete. A Stemi 2000 C stereo microscope complete with the Educational version of the AxioCam ERc5s digital camera was set up in one of...

Indianapolis Museum of Art Uses New Microscope Technology to Improve Art Analysis
Sep 5, 2011

• Carl Zeiss today announced that the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is using a Carl Zeiss "Shuttle & Find" Correlative Microscopy package in the museum's new state-of-the-art conservation science laboratory funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. The package facilitates direct communication between ZEISS electron microscopes and ZEISS light microscopes, thus significantly accelerating the examination of artwork samples...

Carl Zeiss Obtains License from University of California for Illumination Technique
Aug 9, 2011

• Carl Zeiss has received a license from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) for the commercialization of "Multidirectional Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy" (mSPIM), an advanced illumination technique for light sheet fluorescence microscopy...

ConfoMap® Surface Analysis Software for ZEISS microscopes
Jul 5, 2011

• Carl Zeiss and Digital Surf announce the signing of an agreement enabling Carl Zeiss to provide ConfoMap® software. ConfoMap® is a surface imaging and analysis software for confocal microscopes and compound microscopes for topographical research...

Carl Zeiss Reports Global Growth
Jun 8, 2011

• Carl Zeiss has ended the first six months of fiscal year 2010/11 with a substantial improvement in sales and earnings over the previous year: revenues totaled EUR 2.143 billion, and earnings before income tax (EbIT) EUR 355 million. In addition to the full consolidation of the eyeglass business as the new Vision Care business group for the first time, strong organic growth - particularly in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Medical Systems and Industrial Metrology business groups - contributed to the positive half-yearly balance sheet presented by the company in Stuttgart...

WHO recommends LED-fluorescence microscopy for detection of tuberculosis
Apr 6, 2011

• For the efficient and rapid detection of tuberculosis bacteria the World Health Organization WHO now recommends LED-fluorescence microscopy. With Primo Star iLED Carl Zeiss developed, in cooperation with FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics), a microscope aligned for this application...

LED light source Colibri.2 – Higher light intensity and new wavelengths
Apr 6, 2011

• Introducing Colibri.2 Carl Zeiss now offers now an improved LED light source for fluorescence microscopy. Colibri.2 is adaptable to a majority of microscopes and is easily controlled in the AxioVision software. A multitude of different experiments can be effortlessly designed and executed by using Colibri.2...

Another patent licensed for PAL-M Super-resolution technology
Feb 10, 2011

• The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Dr. Eric Betzig and Dr. Harald Hess another patent for their invention of super-resolution localization microscopy. In 2007, the microscopy from Carl Zeiss received the exclusive rights to market the technology.

Carl Zeiss: Fiscal Year Ends with Record Sales Revenues
Dec 2, 2010

• The Carl Zeiss Group concluded fiscal year 2009/10 with an increase in revenues of 42 percent over the previous year. The high-tech group of companies has reversed the trend of the previous year that was characterized by the global economic crisis and is now on track to renewed growth. The Carl Zeiss Group presented its provisional financial statements during its annual press conference in Stuttgart.

Winners of the Carl Zeiss Nano Image Contest Now Chosen
Oct 3, 2010

• After a two-week final stretch the winners of the first Carl Zeiss Nano Image Contest have now been chosen. The winners are Heinrich Badenhorst from the University of Pretoria, South Africa (category Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Norman Hauke and Arne Laucht of the Walter Schottky Institute of Munich Technical University, Germany (category CrossBeam (FIB-SEM), ...

Carl Zeiss Enables Advanced Nano-Fabrication Research with Helium Ion Microscope
Sep 21, 2010

• Carl Zeiss ORION® Plus Helium Ion Microscope moves beyond sub-nanometer imaging to advance the fabrication of nano-electronic and nano-photonic devices

Carl Zeiss Advances Towards Next Generation Integrated TEM Framework
Sep 20, 2010

• As of today, the LIBRA series Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM) from Carl Zeiss take a leap forward by offering the new ZEMAS framework technology (ZEISS Electron Microscopy Applications Software).

Carl Zeiss Introduces Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy Solution for Life Sciences
Aug 27, 2010

• Integrated hardware/software interface enables productive workflow between light and electron microscopes for the first time

James (Jim) Pouquette joins Carl Zeiss
Aug 5, 2010

• Former FEI Executive becomes Senior Vice President Sales of Nano Technology Systems division of Carl Zeiss

Exciting Nanofabrication Capabilities Are Now Available on Carl Zeiss Helium Ion Microscope
Aug 4, 2010

• Carl Zeiss has introduced a new Gas Injection System for the ORION® Plus Helium Ion Microscope. The combination of a sub-nanometer (less than 0.35nm) probe of inert gas ions with a small interaction volume at the sample surface enables highly precise induction chemistries.

Carl Zeiss Nano Image Contest Off to a Successful Start
Jul 23, 2010

• More than 70 users of ZEISS electron and ion microscopes from all over the world have already submitted their nano masterpieces to the first ever Carl Zeiss Nano Image Contest. The current voting record of the overall competition is held by Peter Nirmalraj from Trinity College Dublin

Novel Technique for Characterization of Monolayer Segregation
Jun 2, 2010

• Scientists at the University of Nantes (France) have recently developed a novel technique to detect and quantify grain boundary segregations using wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (WDS). The instrument basis for the development of the new technique is the MERLIN® Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope from Carl Zeiss, equipped with an Oxford WDS spectrometer. The experiment was performed at the Laboratoire Génie des Matériaux et Procédés Associés Polytech´ Nantes (LGMPA).

Design Award for Carl Zeiss and ART-KON-TOR
Jun 2, 2010

• Primo Vert microscope receives reddot 2010 product design award and is nominated for Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany

Carl Zeiss Ltd. acquires Imaging Associates Ltd.
May 12, 2010

• UK subsidiary of global optical and optoelectronic group enhances microscope imaging support and application delivery

11th Day of Microscopy at Carl Zeiss
Mar 18, 2010

• Carl Zeiss will be holding the eleventh “Day of Microscopy”, this time under the motto “Travel to New Dimensions”. Launched in November 2009 in a campaign with the same name, the ELYRA and LSM 780 microscope systems and the VivaTome and DirectFRAP modules will be presented to a large German audience at the Jena Volksbad for the first time.

High Attendance at Workshop on Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy
Feb 23, 2010

• A workshop on aberration corrected electron microscopy was sponsored recently by Carl Zeiss at Harvard University. The workshop attendance was unexpectedly high. Organizers had to move the roughly 100 attendees to a much larger lecture hall than originally planned

New Multidiscussion System - Identical images for up to twenty-one observers
Feb 3, 2010

• Carl Zeiss has launched a new multidiscussion system for Axio Scope and Axio Imager light microscopes. This enables up to 21 persons to view the same object microscopically at the same time.

Polarization Microscopy with High Flexibility
Dec 18, 2009

• The exceptionally flexible Axio Scope.A1 microscope system from Carl Zeiss is now being offered in a version for polarization microscopy. With minimum effort, six different versions of the microscope can be specially and economically configured for polarization techniques.

Patents Issued for Licensed PAL-M Super-resolution Technology
Dec 17, 2009

• The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued three patents (US 7,626,694, US 7,828,695 and US 7,626,703) to Dr. Eric Betzig and Dr. Harald Hess for their invention relating to super-resolution Photo-Activated-Localization Microscopy (PAL-M). PAL-Microscopy is now protected by these patents.

Special Microscope for Biological Research Installed
Dec 8, 2009

• Carl Zeiss completed the installation and acceptance testing of a transmission electron microscope featuring a new type of optics for the high-resolution imaging of biological specimens at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt.