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Extend your lab with the OCAS microscopy centre
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” Helen Keller – American Author, Activist, and Lecturer
Ann De Vyt
Extend your lab with the OCAS microscopy centre
OCAS offers its competencies, know-how, equipment and methodologies to facilitate and help its customers succeed in achieving their R&D goals. In 2021, OCAS opened its brand-new microscopy lab to give them direct access to the most advanced material characterisation techniques.
Our new microscopy lab in Zelzate is ready to welcome our customers to a top-notch high-tech environment, equipped for multidisciplinary microscopy investigation. We provide timely, high-quality services that support our customers with instrumentation, expertise and training on various analytical tools. You can rely on our skilled staff to guide and select the best solution for your needs, ranging from experimental design, to troubleshooting and analysis, to tailored training.
Our lab covers a series of techniques for microscopical and/or microstructural characterisation – starting from FEG-SEM, to FIB-SEM and FEG-TEM (both recently commissioned), to EPMA-SXES, including extensive sample preparation and imageprocessing tools. Moreover, we have structurally reserved access to the Atom Probe Tomography (APT). In addition to the different microscopes, we also have complementary analytical tools, such as accredited (spectro) chemical analysis, surface analysis, etc. Complement your assets, guarantee your back-up, and enjoy our up and running equipment. Furthermore, in order to stay at the forefront of nano characterisation, we’re considering more specialised and differentiating equipment to come in the near future – such as nanomechanical testing and in-situ SEM analysis.
NO NEED FOR INVESTMENT, MAINTENANCE OR SPARE PARTS
By making use of OCAS’s new service in the field of microscopy, the customer has access
OCAS’s microscopy services are a carefree extension of your own R&D lab equipment.
Steven Keyzer
Jan Scheers
to this world-class instrumentation without worrying about justifying a huge investment cost with respect to the amount of potential use cases, expensive spare parts, continuous maintenance, and training of personnel. Instead, OCAS keeps its equipment up and running, maintained up to the highest standards, and has the most experienced operators and experts available to support the customers’ needs. As such, the customer can fully focus on its R&D project and the in-depth (microstructural) characterisation. You are more than welcome to attend the investigation and interact with our operators during the analysis. If your qualified staff is familiar with the advanced equipment and would prefer to conduct the microscopy analysis themselves, OCAS will be happy to provide user-instruction training to allow your visiting operator to run our advanced characterisation tools. Although, the core of our experience is in the characterisation of metallic materials – predominantly steel alloys – our tools can also be used on other metals, composites, textiles, etc. (such as those in use in the semi-conductor market segment).
GUARANTEE YOUR BACK-UP
OCAS’s microscopy tools have proven to be very beneficial as a secured back-up solution for the customer’s own R&D lab.
