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If you are working in the field of biology, you probably know the struggle of combining electron microscopy imaging with light microscopy. Correlative light and electron microscopy(CLEM) is a powerful technique which makes it possible to combine the labelling power of fluorescence imaging with high resolution structural information acquired with electron imaging. This technique has been used for studying biological samples in the fields of marine microbiology, cancer research, neuroscience and, most recently, virology.

A new interesting study on "Merging transformation optics with electron-driven photon sources" was published in Nature Communications. The research was done by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, AMOLF, and the University of Stuttgart. The study combines optical modelling and design of a plasmonic metasurface lens, with electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) and cathodoluminescence (CL) experiments to characterize its properties. The experiments demonstrate that such surfaces can be used in the future for hybrid pump-probe experiments and/or spectral interferometry. 

If you are attending AMAS XV (the Fifteenth Biennial Symposium organized by Australian Microbeam Analysis Society) next week and you are interested in learning more about cathodoluminescence imaging, you have a chance to talk with our application specialist Sangeetha Hari, who is going to be one of the speakers.

We are happy to announce our first webinar in 2019! It will be dedicated to rare-earth doped materials and possibilities for studying them with cathodoluminescence imaging. The webinar will take place on the 13th of February and will last 30 minutes, during which our speaker Toon Coenen will:

We are stepping in 2019 with a lot of plans for the year. At the end of 2018 we were very excited to introduce the webinars again starting with the webinar Time-resolved cathodoluminescence! Previously, we have already have collaborated with our distributors and partners and made a few very interesting webinars on various topics, which are available on our website. 

On 16^th and 17^th of January the University of Oslo hosted the workshop "Analytical SEM for Geology" organized by Delmic, Hitachi and Bruker. 24 participants came from Norway, Poland, Denmark, Sweden and UK to learn about the most advanced techniques and tools for studying geological samples. The workshop, which lasted two days, included several presentations from invited speakers, as well as hands-on sessions on SEM equipment, which can be used to study and analyse geological materials. 

The first day of the workshop consisted of talks by Max Patzschke and Laurie Palasse from Bruker on the advanced microanalysis and characterization of mineralogical samples with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS). Tobias Salge from Natural History Museum of London presented his research on Macro, to Micro to Nanoscale Advanced SEM/EDS of Earth and Planetary Materials. Finally, Toon Coenen from Delmic talked abou

A new paper on "Energy-Momentum Cathodoluminescence Imaging of Anisotropic Directionality in Elliptical Aluminum Plasmonic Bullseye Antennas" was published in ACS Photonics by researchers Toon Coenen (Product Manager at Delmic) and Albert Polman (co-founder of Delmic and group leader at AMOLF). The paper for the first time introduces a completely new cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging technique called lens scanning energy-momentum (LSEK) cathodoluminescence. 

We are starting the year with introducing the new product in the cathodoluminescence detection line: JOLT. This easy-to-use and budget-friendly detector is perfect for cathodoluminescence (CL) measurements of geological and optoelectronic samples.

The holidays and the end of the year are just around the corner, so we would like to share with you the results of this year! 
Our SPARC CL detector was sold to several countries worldwide, including China, Germany, USA, Denmark and Australia. We are looking forward to exciting installations coming up next year. 

This year we added a new product to our SPARC product line: the LAB Cube. This time-resolved module allows to obtain lifetime and g⁽²⁾ images. Another completely new product in the cathodoluminescence line will be announced at the beginning of the 2019, so stay tuned! 

A new interesting paper focusing on DNA-Assembled Plasmonic Waveguides for Nanoscale Light Propagation to a Fluorescent Nanodiamond was published in the prestigious journal Nano Letters by a team of researchers from King's College London, Stanford, and the technical university/Leibnitz institute in Dresden. The paper explores the possibilities of DNA-based nanofabrication applied to plasmonic waveguides and studied with cathodoluminescence imaging and electron energy loss spectroscopy.