When you perform advanced materials research introduce ease of use into your light microscopy workflow. Benefit from accurate and reproducible results using ZEISS Axio Imager 2 for materials. Choose the system tailored to your applications. Expand your instrument with dedicated solutions for e.g., particle analysis, confocal or correlative microscopy.
✓ Reproducible results
✓ Modular design
✓ High optical performance
Cast iron with spherulitic graphite, polished sample, identical same site imaged with different contrasting techniques (field of view 265 µm). Images: courtesy of Dr. H.-L. Steyer, Kesselsdorf, Germany.
Ergonomics
Axio Imager.Z2m or Axio Imager.M2m display key operating functions on a touch screen, giving you fingertip control of all motorized components. Additional control buttons are positioned ergonomically around the focus drive, with tactile surfaces that make them easy to distinguish. Axio Imager.D2m has five pre-programmed buttons while Axio Imager.Z2m has ten user-definable buttons. Axio Imager.A2m is encoded.
Thermomicroscopy
Do you want to examine how temperature influences the behavior of metals, crystals, ceramics or plastics?
With ZEN core and Linkam heating stages you define heating or cooling experiments. Document the temperature pattern in a time lapse series. The result you obtain is a log of the temperature and vacuum data in each time lapse image. Observe sample changes during the heating or cooling process for example in the field of quality control.
Discover more on metallographic applications.
ENERGY MATERIALS
Climate change, energy security, and protecting our environment are common challenges faced by all nations. If we’re going to protect our planet going forward, we need alternatives to current fuel technology. These alternatives can potentially reduce our need for oil and reduce the amount of harmful emissions and greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere - making them an attractive replacement for internal combustion engines.
ENERGY MATERIALS
Climate change and recent weather extremes mean that green technology is now more crucial than ever. Development of novel, low-cost solar cell devices that maximize efficiency is critical if mankind is to reach net-zero emission by 2050. But several challenges need to be solved before this becomes a reality.
MICROSCOPY APPLICATIONS FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
Research and development of sustainable energy devices for future generations is crucial. Such devices - including batteries, fuel cells, and solar cells - will represent a major shift in how energy is generated, stored, and converted. Today, the main research focus is on extending the lifetime of these devices, increasing their power and storage density, and improving their efficiency and safety.
It’s obvious that generating, storing, and using energy sustainably will be a key challenge going forward. And it’s a challenge in which microscopy will play an important role. After all, the performance of future devices is intrinsically linked to their micro- and nano-structure. Microscopy techniques allow researchers to dig deep, helping them investigate the reasons behind why certain materials work and why some don’t.
And better microscopy tools mean more accurate analysis. ZEISS is committed to helping you move your research forward. ZEISS provides X-ray, electron and ion microscopes, along with multi-modal solutions, that keep up with the ever-increasing demands of energy research.
ENERGY MATERIALS
The worldwide movement toward electric vehicles continues to grow - by 2030, the number on the roads is expected to reach 250 million globally. This is because of consumer demand stemming from rising gas prices and government efforts to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Electric vehicle technology depends on the availability of powerful permanent magnets for use in sensors and motors. And high demand on raw materials is leading to a highly intensified search for new magnetic alternatives. Developing new, more powerful, or cheaper magnets can accelerate electric vehicle adoption and deployment.
MICROSCOPY APPLICATIONS FOR NANOMATERIALS & NANOSCIENCES
Recent advances in nanotechnology have pushed the development of FIB-SEM systems that allow higher resolution imaging at lower kV. Excellent low-kV imaging performance is necessary for surface analysis of low-D materials such as MoS2, graphene monolayers, nanowires, nanoparticles, and quantum dots.
MICROSCOPY APPLICATIONS FOR NANOMATERIALS & NANOSCIENCES
Nanofluidic devices can help you study fundamental scientific processes and probe a variety of mechanisms like nanocapillarity, mass transport in confined structures, and DNA-protein interactions.
One advantage of nanofluidic devices for these studies is their flexibility when it comes to size and shape. These features can be engineered with precision using electron and ion beams, allowing scientists to tune various properties as required. But in order to fabricate nanofluidic devices with the precision needed for future applications, standard FIB-SEM tools are far from ideal.
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