News

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.

In May we organised the first online live demonstration of our cathodoluminescence system, SPARC. It was a great way to show the possibilities of the system. We are excited to announce that at the end of this month, on the 27th of August, we are planning to have an online demonstration of the SECOM system, our integrated correlative light and electron microscope. 

SPARC Spectral is the most flexible and reliable cathodoluminescence system on the market, allowing experimental freedom thanks to its modularity. The possibilities of this system are vast: six imaging modes, open-source software ODEMIS and modular design ensure this. This system is successfully used by companies and research institutes all over the world in the fields of nanophotonics, materials science and geosciences (read our customer stories in our blog). 

A new paper on inversely tapered silicon nano-resonators by researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin was recently published in Scientific Reports. In their study the authors selectively excited and measured the optical modes of inversely tapered silicon photonic resonators using cathodoluminescence spectroscopy. This allowed them to experimentally map the whispering gallery modes(WGMs) in such photonic resonators. 

We are continuing our educational series of webinars, dedicated to cathodoluminescence technique and its application in different fields. Over the last few months, we have covered cathodoluminescence for geology, rare-earth materials, as well as time-resolved cathodoluminescence and lens scanning energy-momentum CL. On the 11th of July we are going to focus on yet another field, where cathodoluminescence can be successfully used: plasmonics.