Microscopy News

  1. PI Launches 2nd Generation PInano® Piezo Stage For SR Microscopy 11/15/2016

    PI has recently released a 2nd generation of its successful PInano® product line of high resolution XY/XYZ multi-axis positioning systems. The digital servo piezo controller offers the advantage of higher linearity, simple operation, and easy access to advanced features in comparison to conventional analog piezo controllers. It provides responsive real-time tracking, and it supports PI's unique Fast Focus & Freeze capability, where the unit can be bumplessly switched from external (focus) sensor to internal (capacitive, SGS or piezoresistive) sensor, allowing precise, calibrated, stable motions with respect to the focal plane.

  2. Qioptiq mag.x system 125 Now Optimized For 35 mm Camera Format Sensors 10/27/2016

    Qioptiq, an Excelitas Technologies® Company, recently introduces the new 1.73x Tube Lens as a widely desired addition to the mag.x system 125. Representing a new class of optical systems that enable microscope-like resolution with wide fields-of-view to support modern high-resolution sensors, the 1.73x Tube Lens makes the mag.x system 125 a perfect match for sensors with the 35 mm camera format.

  3. High Power Violet Lasers Improve Cytometry And Confocal Microscopy Applications 8/8/2016

    A new, high power, ultra-compact, violet laser from Coherent, Inc. will provide improved performance for numerous short wavelength applications, including examples in life sciences, where it will enable brighter confocal imaging and faster flow cytometry throughput rates.

  4. Nanometer Precision 3-Channel Controller For Miniature Piezo Inertia Drives And Actuators 7/29/2016

    PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. recently announced the newest digital servo controller with 3-channels, offering greater flexibility for miniaturized precision positioning and handling tasks. Applications include precision alignment and automation, semiconductor technology, photonics, bio-nano-technology, metrology, microscopy, micro-manipulation.

  5. New PI Low-Cost, Compact, And Smooth Running Stepper/Servo Motor Solution 5/5/2016

    PI offers a new L-406 compact linear stage delivers performance and reliability at minimized cost. It has applications in research and industrial applications, including bio-nanotechnology, microscopy, micromanipulation, inspection and metrology, beamline systems, and photonics instrumentation.

  6. Xenics At DCS: Top-Notch Space Technology Serving The Industry 4/18/2016

    Xenics will attend SPIE DCS 2016 with a host of new developments, among them the first performance results of a family of high-resolution SWIR line-scan arrays that work up to 400 KHz of line rate. These arrays serve space applications that require high resolution line-scan arrays as well as medical (3D SD-OCT) and industrial applications that require high line rates. . Xenics will exhibit in Booth 523 at the Baltimore Convention Center.

  7. New Laser System Captures Two Types Of Microscopy Images With One Light Source 4/13/2016

    Researchers have designed a simple new laser system that allows the acquisition of two types of microscopy images with a single light source.

  8. New Open Source Software For High Resolution Microscopy 3/30/2016

    Bielefeld physicists report their new development in Nature Communications With their special microscopes, experimental physicists can already observe single molecules.

  9. ORNL–NIST Team Explores Nanoscale Objects And Processes With Microwave Microscopy 3/22/2016

    When lots of energy hits an atom, it can knock off electrons, making the atom extremely chemically reactive and initiating further destruction. That’s why radiation is so dangerous. It’s also why high-resolution imaging techniques that use energetic electron beams and X-rays can alter, even obliterate, the samples they explore.

  10. Excelitas' X-Cite 120LEDBoost For Fluorescence Microscopy 2/11/2016

    Excelitas Technologies Corp. introduces X-Cite 120LEDBoost to replace their popular X-Cite 120LED broad-spectrum solution. With the same key features and mercury-free benefits as its predecessor, X-Cite 120LEDBoost delivers 40% more power for improved fluorophore excitation.