Jeol Ltd., Peabody, Mass., recently acquired all shares of Integrated Dynamic Electron Solutions Inc. (IDES), an entrepreneurial venture specializing in technologies related to transmission electron microscopy, and made the company its wholly owned subsidiary.
TEM systems are Jeol’s flagship product line, and are designed to observe materials at atomic resolution and examine their static structure. IDES’s unique technology will upgrade the existing systems to ultrafast time-resolved TEMs that can capture still and dynamic images in nanoseconds (one billionth of a second) to femtoseconds (one quadrillionth of a second) and recording them with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.
These innovative systems can be used to explore dynamic and quantum phenomena beyond the reach of conventional TEM. In the future, the system can also be upgraded to support applications in life sciences, such as studies of protein movement.
According to Dr. Thomas Isabell, Director of Product Management, Jeol USA Inc., “Integrated Dynamic Electron Solutions has produced proven, time-resolved electron microscopy systems for a number of installations worldwide. The combination of JEOL electron microscopes and patented IDES technology provides a complete turnkey solution that allows researchers to illuminate nanoscale dynamics over time scales spanning femtoseconds to milliseconds.”
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