Imago Scientific Instruments
- Imago Scientific Instruments
Imago Scientific Instruments [http://www.imago.com imago.com] is a company founded in 1999 [ [http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARCHI&C=Profi&ARTICLE_ID=268526&p=109] SmallTimes ] by Dr. Tom Kelly. At that time Tom Kelly was the Director of the Materials Science Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison [ [http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2006/showbio.html?id=98] Nanotech Report ] , but left his tenured position in 2001 to guide the company's growth. Imago commercialized the Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP), providing a new type of atom probe microscope which is literally orders of magnitude faster in many performance criteria than any other recently delivered atom probe microscope [ [http://link.aip.org/link/?RSINAK/78/031101/1] Review of Scientific Instruments March 2007] . Imago (name comes from the Latin word for image or picture) has not only improved the instrumentation available for atom probe tomography, but has also developed many sample preparation techniques that are key enablers for the 3D sub-nanometer compositional information that the microscope provides [ [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=238971] Advances in Instrumentation and Techniques 2004] . In April of 2008 Imago and FEI Company announced a plan for close collaboration, possibly followed by an acquisition in the coming year [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS201301+14-Apr-2008+BW20080414] Reuters] .
See Also
[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=1424348 For a recent review of atom probe tomography applications, see Microscopy and Microanalysis Volume 13 (2007)]
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