When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting to see ...

As mentioned, it is a versatile desktop SEM solution that gives you the possibility to do all your quality analysis, as well as R&D SEM work, and in both cases keeping your confidential data in-house.

Automation represents a powerful resource in the materials characterization toolkit in its more general form. Automation can positively impact the science performed in an array of laboratories, ...

The interaction volume of a characteristic X-Ray emission can be seen in Figure 1. Typical EDS analysis in an SEM is carried out at relatively high energy (greater than 10 kV), which results in a vast ...

A well-established technique in industry, laser micromachining uses lasers to mark, cut, and drill workpieces with extremely high precision. 1 Using ultrashort pulsed lasers, laser-based solutions are ...

Flourishing in an SEM role is a balance of mindset, education, and development. Learn the building blocks for a long, successful SEM career. In the first part of our SEM career playbook series, we ...