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    FEI Announces World's Most Advanced Electron Microscope

    New Titan(TM) (S)TEM, With Resolution Below 0.7 Angstrom, Surpasses
    Previous World Record Performance for Commercial Systems

    Metrology World
    4/18/2005

    HILLSBORO, OR - FEI today announced its new scanning/transmission
    electron microscope (S/TEM), the Titan 80-300, dedicated to corrected
    microscopy. The new (S)TEM system is the world's most advanced
    commercially-available microscope, yielding atomic-scale imaging with
    resolution below 0.7 Angstrom. The Titan announcement comes just one
    year after FEI became the first developer and manufacturer of
    commercial electron microscopes to achieve sub-Angstrom resolution on
    FEI's market-leading Tecnai(TM) microscope using a monochromator and
    an aberration corrector.

    Until now, aberration correction technologies in electron microscopes
    have been treated as accessory components for (S)TEM systems that were
    not truly optimized for this type of advanced technology. Thus, the
    integration of these types of correctors for breaking the next
    resolution barrier and for high usability has been met with limited
    success.

    The all-new Titan 80-300 is designed as a dedicated and
    highly-upgradeable aberration-corrected system that will enable
    corrector and monochromator technology to enter into mainstream
    nanotechnology research and industrial markets. The Titan (S)TEM
    system features unparalleled overall stability to break the 1-Angstrom
    barrier. Results from FEI's Nanoport in The Netherlands deliver Titan
    TEM information limits below 0.7 Angstrom and STEM resolution just
    below 1.0 Angstrom, without the addition of aberration corrector
    upgrades -- an achievement that has never before been demonstrated on
    a commercial tool. Corrector upgrades can be added for higher
    resolution, extending the point resolution down to the information
    limit for accurate interpretation of atomic structures.

    The Titan 80-300 has been rigorously evaluated by several leading
    researchers and customers under Non-Disclosure Agreements. The system
    will be fully available for demonstrations after Titan's official
    launch at the 2005 Microscopy and Microanalysis meeting, August 1-4,
    in Honolulu.

    The upgradeable design of the Titan enables not only larger
    nanotechnology and national research centers to afford dedicated
    aberration corrected TEM technology, it opens the door to universities
    and companies with staged funds to position themselves for the future.
    FEI has received several advance orders for the new Titan (S)TEM
    ranging from the base Titan 80-300 to the Titan 80-300 with two
    aberration correctors and a monochromator. FEI's award-winning and
    record breaking Tecnai G2 TEM will continue to be marketed and
    supported for customers who do not need aberration-corrected
    resolution. New developments and products for this proven platform
    will also be introduced at the 2005 Microscopy and Microanalysis
    meeting.

    "The Titan 80-300 is a significant platform for the nanotechnology
    era. It provides our customers a solid foundation for continued
    innovation and commercialization. FEI's continuing advances in
    ultra-high TEM resolution, coupled with our market-leading focused ion
    beam (FIB) technologies, deliver powerful and vital tools for
    researchers, developers and manufacturers who are increasingly focused
    on nanoscale discovery and product commercialization," commented Vahe
    Sarkissian, FEI's chairman and chief executive officer. "As the
    world's

    leader in providing Tools for Nanotech(TM), FEI will continue to
    invest in the development of these key technologies and market
    platforms."

    "The initial market response for this advanced technology has been
    very strong," said George Scholes, general manager of FEI's (S)TEM
    business line. "For wide commercialization of this technology we
    designed the base system with a superior level of upgradeability so
    customers can add an aberration corrector, on site at a later
    date. This will enable customers to obtain resolution and capability
    they need today, knowing that they can expand the system's resolution
    limits as their requirements change."

    Advance orders for the new Titan(TM) (S)TEM have been in markets
    ranging from advanced materials, energy, and semiconductors, to
    advanced nanotechnology research centers in Europe and North
    America. FEI believes that the Titan will also be a powerful addition
    to FEI's UltraView(TM) suite of sample management tools that takes
    NanoElectronics customers rapidly from wafers to atoms with
    sub-Angstrom resolution.

    The introduction of the Titan is just one illustration of FEI's
    leadership in electron microscopy and its ability to accelerate the
    resolution revolution. In a November 2004 news release, FEI announced
    that it was selected as the R&D partner for a program aiming to build
    the highest resolution scanning/transmission electron microscope
    (S/TEM) in the world by several regional U.S. laboratories that
    combined to form the TEAM project. It is a multi-million dollar
    microscopy project that calls for a new microscope that should enable
    extraordinary new scientific opportunities for direct observation
    aimed at enabling analysis of individual nanostructures at an
    unprecedented resolution of 0.5 Angstrom -- approximately one-third
    the size of a carbon atom.

    About FEI

    FEI's Tools for Nanotech(TM), featuring focused ion- and electron-beam
    technologies, deliver 3D characterization, analysis and modification
    capabilities with resolution down to the sub-Angstrom level. With R&D
    centers in North America and Europe and sales and service operations
    in more than 40 countries around the world, FEI is bringing the
    nanoscale within the grasp of leading researchers and manufacturers
    and helping to turn some of the biggest ideas of this century into
    reality.

    More information can be found on the FEI website at:
    http://www.feicompany.com.

    Source: FEI Company

    http://www.metrologyworld.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=%7b44609397-34D8-4C02-9446-6EC7E10655C0%7d&VNETCOOKIE=NO

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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