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In the past year we have delivered and installed quite a few cathodoluminescence systems all over the world. We are proud to share with you a few notable installations of 2018 and 2019!

In the past few months we have covered various application fields in which cathodoluminescence can be successfully used. This time we decided to prepare a special edition webinar, which will cover the basic principles of CL. We are excited to invite you to a webinar "Introduction to cathodoluminescence imaging". 

Our invited speaker at the upcoming workshop in Berlin, David Lindgren, PhD, has a lot to share about his expertise in characterizing the optical properties of semiconductors. Delmic talked with him to give you a sneak peek of his presentation on the 21st of November. 

David has worked as a senior engineer at Sol Voltaics, a start-up which produced solar cells out of nanowires with a new technique called Aerotaxy. His PhD was dedicated to optical characterization of III-V semiconductors for different components like LEDs and solar cells. It allowed him to expertly manage cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence systems and perform fundamental research looking at impurities of materials and defects that could be related to malfunction of components.

If you couldn't join our workshop Analytical SEM for Geology in January, which was organised together by Delmic, Bruker, Hitachi and University of Oslo, you now have a chance to watch all the presentations online. We invite you to watch the recording of the webinar, which consists of two parts: Part I is dedicated to SEM combined with X-ray microanalysis (EDS) technique, which is great for understanding morphology and microstructure of materials. You can access it here.

While using cathodoluminescence imaging to study various materials can be extremely insightful, the spatial extent of the electron beam interaction with the material is not always clear. This is important if one is seeking to study particular features in a material. Moreover, by varying the electron energy it is possible to access various depths and obtain (coarse) 3D information. 

We are proud to announce that Delmic has obtained funding in the form of a Phase 2  grant of the SME Instrument, a funding instrument of the European Commission. The company has been selected among other highly innovative SMEs and will receive considerable funding. 

A new paper published in Nano Letters by a group of scientists from EMPA, ETH Zurich, University of Tartu and Karolinska Institutet investigates ultrabright and stable luminescent labels for correlative cathodoluminescence electron microscopy(CCLEM) bioimaging. The paper reveals that rare-earth element doped nanocrystals show both high brightness and stability when used for CCLEM bioimaging. 

We are excited to announce an upcoming workshop in Berlin, which is organised in collaboration with Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy. The workshop will focus on cathodoluminescence imaging for photovoltaic materials and various possibilities of this technique for characterisation and determining light-emitting properties at the nanoscale. 

The summer is coming to its end so we would like to share all the exciting microscopy events we participated in recently. 

We are excited to announce that Delmic has received considerable funding as part of a research consortium, which includes Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, University of Twente, Demcon kryoz and CryoVac. The purpose of this consortium is developing innovative workflows and methods for cryo-electron tomography. The project received a grant by Eurostars, a joint funding program of the European Research Initiative EUREKA and the European Commission.