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Top articles from Edition 24 (11/16)

Themes in this issue

Cryogenics

An example to others – helium recovery in renowned NMR laboratory in Aarhus

During EUROMAR 2016, the largest European conference for magnetic resonance, a high-pressure recovery system for liquid helium was installed at the…


Magnetic characterization of superconductors – high stability at room temperature

A wide-spread method to store information in hard discs and credit cards is the local polarization of magnetic media. In practice two things are…


New: Impedance bridge for cryogenic applications

The new temperature controller model 54 from CryoCon can now measure impedance and inductance at low temperatures. In addition, it comes with four…

Imaging

Imaging spectroscopy from Specim goes portable

The portable spectral camera FX10 is the latest camera generation from Finnish market leader Specim. On the inside, it boasts the high quality of…


New high-speed streaming camera from AOS Technologies – PROMON U750

Swiss camera manufacturer AOS Technologies present their new, ultra compact, high-speed streaming camera. The PROMON U750 high-speed streaming camera…


New hyperspectral imaging blog – how long does it take to capture an image?

Multiple factors must be taken into consideration when calculating the recording time of the hyperspectral image of a two-dimensional object. For one,…


Specim hyperspectral imaging camera distribution in the UK and Ireland

For more than ten years, LOT-QuantumDesign and Specim have been partners in the manufacturing and distribution of high-class hyperspectral imaging…


Digital microscope and scanner M8 from PreciPoint for Benelux and Germany

M8 is a fully automatic and digital transmitted light microscope with 3different modes – microscope, slides can and synthetic. It thus combines a…

Materials science

A successful collaboration – two strong magnets and a football game

Whoever comes to Darmstadt by car will pass a sign saying: “Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt”. A number of well-established scientific institutions are…


High-temperature nanoindentation of tungsten at temperatures up to 950 °C

For the first time nanoindentation measurements were performed in a vacuum environment where both the sample and the indenter were heated to 950 °C.…


New PPMS dilatometer option discovers phase transition

Both the Quantum Design PPMS and DynaCool will be enhanced by a dilatometer option.

Its special design allows measurements of thermal expansion and…


PPMS – measuring AC magnetic susceptibility at 50 mK

Do you already have the ACMS or ACMS-II option for the PPMS you are using to measure the AC-magnetic susceptibility of your samples?


Toolbox, nifty, free-of-charge software to calculate coating adhesion

In the mechanical characterization of thin films, especially in tribology, a number of questions have remained unanswered for years.


Workshop WVASE – ellipsometry data analysis February 22 - 24, 2017

LOT-QuantumDesign GmbH together with the J.A. Woollam Co., Inc. are happy to announce the next course on WVASE ellipsometry data analysis that targets…

Optics

UV transmitting sample holders – blanket orders possible

On a regular basis, sample holders are mainly used with microscopes. Sample holders made of N-BK7 glass have established themselves as standard in…

Spectroscopy

Herbal diet pills – analyzed with the Benchtop-NMR

Together with one of our French customers, our partner Oxford Instruments has analyzed the true content of these so-called herbal pills.


Quantification of carbon nanotubes – quick and easy

The NS-MiniTracer is the latest and most budget-friendly member of the Nano­­Spectralyzer family of Applied NanoFluorescence.

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