Product & application news

Sakina Chetouane, an employee of LOT-QuantumDesign France, celebrated her 30th LOT-QD anniversary on February 26th 2015.

More customers are adding lenses in­-side the Cryostation to accommo­date their experiments. In several instances aspheric lenses were added either…

If you perform optical measurements at low temperatures, you should check out the Cryostation C2. The Cryostation can easily be integrated into…

The recycling market is one of the key industries for closing material loops and achieving global sustainable development.

This new facility, built by a UK, Swiss and German consortium, is located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile and benefits from the superb…

The WITec apyron imaging system has been developed to overcome the gap between ease-of-use and ultimate capability in Raman imaging. It is ideal for…

Until the early modern period, a solar eclipse was considered an ominous sign of the gods. On the other hand, it was a solar eclipse that ended the…

Soft-X-ray microscopy using atomic inner-shell excitations can provide a uni­que window into the structure and dynamics of the nanoworld.

The optical tweezer Tweez250 boasts a compact design combined with highest precision and accuracy. Its core is a powerful, extremely stable laser that…

Q-Sense instruments track changes on surfaces based on the patented QCM-D technology. To achieve this, the mass of a molecular layer that forms on the…

Durham Magneto Optics (DMO) founder and Chief Executive, Prof. Russell Cowburn, has been elected one of the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished…

On September 3rd, 2014 Quantum Design Japan and Tohoku University launched a press release for the introduction of the “World’s fastest <100 mK…

NanOsc has launched two new CryoFMRs to determine magnetic properties by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) at low temperatures. The CryoFMRs were…

In 2015 the first publications on the characterization of individual (nano) particles with the NanoTweezer have been published: “Nanophotonic Force…

In search of suitable material for low temperatures and high magnetic fields, we accidentally came across a brass alloy.

The Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) by MicroSense is a measurement system to characterize magne­tic properties like DC magnetization. Different…

Electron systems like transition metal oxides have magnetic, electric and dielectric or optical and photovoltaic properties, which are strongly…

The Vibrating Sample Magnet­ometry (VSM) technique is quite impressive: it is fast and sensitive, and uses a simple measurement scheme to determine…

LOT-QuantumDesign France now boasts 15 years of experience in optics characterization with Zygo laser interferometers. Zygo have developed a new…

With the nanomechanical measuring platform NanoTest, Micro Materials had already developed a universal nanoindenter with a wide range of options to…

In April 2014, the Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) EZ7 was in­stalled in the magnetics lab “Gruben­hagen” at the LIAG in Einbeck, Ger­many. The…