Nanoscopic Analysis of Large-area Samples

Carl Zeiss has launched ATLAS™, a powerful hardand software package, which, can be combined with any CZ scanning electron microscope from Carl Zeiss for imaging of large-area specimens with nanometer

resolution.

The system is initially being utilised both in the area of neurological research, e.g. the young field of brain mapping, and for traditional routine tasks in histology and pathology as a cost-effective method of examining specimens with constantly increasing sizes using resolutions in the nanometer range.

With suitable specimens, unattended operation can acquire multi-image montages that span extremely large fields of view, permitting capture of regions on the millimeter scale with resolution on the nanometer scale in a handful of hours. The in-built viewer software with integrated zoom function facilitates continous enlargement of the final image from rough overview until nanometer resolution, the company said.