The world of microscopy just changed. The Carl Zeiss SMT ORION® PLUS Helium-ion-microscope just broke the world record for resolution. The ORION® PLUS microscope now delivers TEM-like resolution, on bulk samples, with SEM-like ease-of-use. This breakthrough in resolution truly puts the ORION® PLUS in a class of its own, providing an opportunity to see things you’ve never before seen.

The Orion helium-ion microscope has repeatedly achieved a surface resolution of 0.24 nanometer, approaching the diameter of an atom. This performance is 3x better than that delivered by sophisticated scanning electron microscopes with the same surface sensitivity. Read the rest of this article »