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CAMECA instruments are used around the world for applications that take you from the core of the earth to the outer reaches of space.

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Advanced Materials

Scientists rely on SIMS and APT to gain a deeper understanding of the properties of advanced materials used for transportation, energy production, aerospace, and even consumer products.

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Energy Materials

CAMECA supports innovation in the field of green energy and LED lighting: among other product lines, SIMS and APT are widely used to help optimize sharp interface transitions between layers of varying composition in PV...

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Environmental Science

From microbial ecology and oceanography to nuclear safeguards, SIMS and NanoSIMS are tools of choice for quantitative analysis in a wide spectrum environmental science applications.

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Geoscience

Recognized for their unequaled performance in the analysis of stable and radiogenic isotopes, in complex minerals and phases, our instruments cover the whole spectrum of geological studies: geo and cosmochemistry, mineralogy and petrography...

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Life Science

Offering powerful instruments for studying intracellular metabolic pathways, DNA expression, virus penetration and drug localization, CAMECA enables important medical advancements...

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Metals

Our SIMS and APT instruments address a large range of microanalytical challenges in the metal industry: from bulk composition to the study of diffusion phenomena in polycrystalline samples, from surface imaging analysis to the study of grain boundary segregation, precipitation and clustering.

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Mining

SIMS and Atom Probe Tomography instruments assist miners and metallurgists in the discovery of new ore deposits and the improvement of mineral processing.

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Nuclear

CAMECA has a long success story in supporting key players in nuclear science and industry. Several of our product lines deliver insightful data for the development of innovative structural materials, fusion and fission research, for nuclear safeguards, radiological protection and radioactive waste management. We also offer shielded microanalytical systems ensuring a safe environment for manipulating and characterizing highly radioactive materials.

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Semiconductor

Extreme sensitivity, low detection limits, high productivity... the CAMECA microanalytical instruments are recognized throughout the international IC community as best-in-class for investigation on new materials and structures for semiconductors. CAMECA also develops high performance process control systems supporting the high volume production of the latest generation electronic devices.

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ECR Source Applications

The versatility of ECR sources in producing both ions and electrons makes them valuable in a broad range of scientific and industrial applications. In materials science, they are employed for thin film deposition and surface modification. In nuclear physics, ECR sources are crucial for producing high-charge-state ions for accelerators and experimental research. Additionally, in the semiconductor industry, they are used for ion implantation processes to modify the electrical properties of materials.

Since we started to work with CAMECA IMS 1280 in 2008, we have developed U-(Th)-Pb dating procedures on more than ten kinds of accessory minerals to broaden understanding of in-situ geochronology. The good performance of this instrument made it feasible to date with as small as 2 micron-spot size. We bought the second one (IMS 1280-HR) in 2013 because of the increasing workload. These two instruments are serving a wide range of scientists worldwide. "

Prof. Qiuli Li

Institute of geology and geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

APT uniquely enabled us to observe the diffusion of LSCF elements into GDC grain boundaries, a level of detail that other techniques could not achieve. "

Maxime Hubert

French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France

NanoSIMS has even proven invaluable in the visualization and monitoring of therapeutic nanoparticles, thereby enhancing our knowledge of drug delivery mechanisms at the cellular level. "

Prof. Gary Siuzdak

Scripps Center for Metabolomics, USA

In particular, the chemical mapping of both boron and phosphorus with SIMS has been instrumental in detecting and quantifying any instances of cross-doping, where dopant atoms migrate or diffuse across unintended regions of the solar cell, which can have detrimental effects on cell performance... In-situ microanalytical instrumentation such as D-SIMS is instrumental in monitoring localized doping and advancing this promising technology. "

Dr. Sieu Pheng Phang

Australian National University, Australia

By applying SIMS to my samples from the Greenland Ice Sheet, I was able to generate single-cell measurements of microbial activity and nutrient uptake, revealing how these algae thrive in such a harsh environment and may expand across the ice in the future. The SIMS measurements provided the first single-cell data on carbon and nitrogen uptake in glacier ice algae, showing their minimal nutrient requirements and resilience in extreme environments. For me, this clearly highlights SIMS as a unique and powerful method for quantifying microbial activity and advancing our understanding of elemental cycling. "

Dr. Laura Halbach

Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Biology, Bremen, Germany

LG-SIMS is a critical tool in geoscience research because it can achieve high-precision analyses on very small and shallow samples. "

Hugo H. K. Olierook

Curtin University, Australia

The high sensitivity and spatial resolution of SIMS opens exciting opportunities to detect traces of past volcanic eruptions in cave deposits, while high-precision oxygen isotope analysis allows reconstruction of past climates in the same materials. By applying SIMS techniques to measure sulfur concentrations and oxygen isotopes in a sample from a cave in Germany, we could, for the first time, directly link a cave record from Central Europe with ice core data from Greenland, with the respective volcanic sulfur spikes of the Laacher See eruption as tie points. "

Axel K. Schmitt

John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Australia

The ability of the LG-SIMS instruments to obtain high-precision oxygen isotopic data from tiny zircon domains allowed us to uncover the earliest evidence of Earth’s hydrological cycle. The fine-tuned instrument performance and reliable data acquisition made it possible to tackle questions that were previously beyond reach. "

Hamed Gamaleldien

Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE

SIMS provides a unique opportunity to assess isotopic heterogeneity among individual grains within rocks or sediments. By applying this technique to measure the sulfur isotope composition of micrometer-sized pyrite grains from Lake Cadagno, we were able to demonstrate unambiguously that pyrite preserved the isotopic evolution of the dissolved sulfide pool over the past decades. "

Juliette Dupeyron

University of Lausanne and Institut de physique du Globe de Paris, France

CAMECA large-radius SIMS instruments define state of the art for in situ analysis of isotope ratios from the smallest possible spots. The WiscSIMS IMS 1280 routinely produces better precision and accuracy than previously imagined, enabling new areas of enquiry and discovery from paleoclimatology to zircons to meteoritics. "

Prof. John Valley & Noriko Kita

University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

AKONIS monitors Ge concentration variations during etching and estimates the percentage of Ge remaining. Its superior single detection system and unique high extraction field technology provide a very high dynamic range with unparalleled depth, resolution, and sensitivity. "

At IHPP PAS (Unipress), we work on nitride semiconductors—from gallium nitride (GaN) crystals to advanced devices such as laser diodes. SIMS testing is fundamental to our research, allowing us to assess material purity and precisely control the implantation of acceptor dopants like magnesium into GaN substrates... As we continue exploring new directions in GaN-based technologies, SIMS will remain a key tool for guiding our material development and process optimization. "

Artur Lachowski

High Pressure Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

The high quality of the phosphorus depth profiles obtained by SIMS enabled us to evidence dopant redistribution mechanisms, with a fineness beyond our hopes. "

Dr. Sebastien Kerdiles

CEA-LETI, France

Among the various techniques employed at the CEA-Grenoble NanoCharacterization Platform (PFNC), dynamic SIMS maintains a leading role in supporting the development of emerging nanotechnologies, thanks to its exceptional sensitivity and superior depth resolution. "

Marc Veillerot

CEA LETI, France

The LEAP 4000 HR has allowed us to see radioisotope geologic time in 3D for the first time. It is revolutionizing our view of natural materials, allowing us to use our macro-scale mapping approaches at the scale of the mineral lattice. It is an exciting time to be an Atom Probe geoscientist! "

Prof. Desmond Moser

University of Western Ontario, USA

 The CAMECA LEAP with UV laser pulsing is a powerful tool for 3D nanoscale geochemistry studies. Its introduction just a few years ago has enabled the analysis of a broad range of geological materials, including ground-breaking imaging of sub-micron isotopic distributions. Since the Geoscience Atom Probe Facility was established at Curtin University in 2015, researchers from around the world have visited the facility to make use of the LEAP’s capabilities, resulting in many new insights into geological processes active at the nanoscale. "

Dr. David Saxey

Department of Physics and Astronomy & Curtin University, Perth, Australia

  As a scientist interested in interfacial phenomena, the LEAP® 5000 has provided a transformative microscope in quantifying elemental behavior across of a variety of material surfaces. This has enabled new understanding of material’s chemical structure and its effect in controlling properties, wether that be electrical, magnetic, optical or mechanical. "

Prof. Gregory B. Thompson

University of Alabama, USA

Our LEAP® gives us fundamental understanding of atomic interactions between alloying elements in microalloyed steels. Particularly the clustering behaviors of light elements detected must lead to development of a new class of low-alloy steels by controlling heterogeneity contained in a classical metallic solid solution. "

Prof. Tadashi Furuhara

Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan

Our IMS 7f instrument was just being installed when the 3rd November 2011 earthquake happened. Despite seismic intensity of 7 and subsequent nuclear plant trouble, our university being located 100 km from Fukushima, CAMECA staff could solve the vibration related molecular pump issues and perfectly install the instrument. Since then, the Tohoku University IMS 7f has proven to be a robust machine, stable over time and incredibly versatile. We use it successfully for a wide variety of challenging microanalytical tasks such as characterization of diffusion in solid materials for fuel cells, depth profiles for multi layers in electric devices, behaviors of additional elements in steels or ceramics, dating in geoscience, isotopes analysis in biology. "

Dr. Takamichi Miyazaki

Tohoku University School of Engineering, Japan

As a materials scientist focused on understanding the role of microstructure and environment in materials performance, the unique microchemical information attainable using the NanoSIMS is providing unique insights into hydrogen-assisted fracture that cannot be obtained via other analytical techniques. Our research using NanoSIMS has demonstrated the localization of hydrogen in the plastic zone ahead of fatigue cracks in austenitic stainless steel. NanoSIMS is the perfect complement to advanced analytical electron microscopy and atom probe tomography, as it provides essential information concerning elemental segregation at spatial resolutions necessary for correlation with the general microstructure. "

Dr. Greg McMahon & Prof. Grace Burke

Materials Performance Centre, University of Manchester, UK

Our IMS 7f gives us analytical capabilities for highly sensitive quantitative analysis of light elements, particularly Oxygen and Hydrogen, in Zr alloys after exposure in high temperature steam environment simulating conditions in VVER nuclear reactors. In combination with the CAMECA APM software we can use our IMS 7f for fast search, identification, and isotopic analysis of micrometer size dust particles containing nuclear material – a capability that we never had before. "

Dr. Jan Lorincik

Research Center Rez, Czech Republic

 Predicting the in-service structural integrity of components in nuclear reactors is immensely challenging but essential from both safety and economic perspectives. The CAMECA LEAP provides an unrivalled capability to characterize the 3D atomic-scale irradiation damage caused by the interaction between energetic neutrons and atoms in structural components. The resultant microstructural data are used to underpin mechanistic models of the degradation processes and hence support safety cases for continued operation of nuclear reactors world-wide. "

Prof. Jonathan Hyde

National Nuclear Laboratory, UK

 Since 1999 CAMECA IMS 6f has been used for the research on isotope ratio analysis of uranium in individual particles in the environment at JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency). These analysis data are regularly provided to IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and are highly evaluated by IAEA. End of 2017 we have newly introduced a CAMECA IMS 1300–HR³, which realizes more precise isotope ratio measurements, and have started new researches. It is impossible to perform without using CAMECA’s SIMS instruments with high performance and reliability. They continue to be widely utilized in the field of nuclear sciences and environmental sciences. "

Dr. Fumitaka Esaka

Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ibaraki, Japan

Among all characterization techniques used, SIMS uniquely enabled direct verification that helium incorporation remained minimal and that implanted or incorporated helium could diffuse out during laser processing or subsequent annealing. "

Prof. Ji-Hong Zhao

Jilin University, Changchun, China

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