Q1 2022 - Protochips Newsletter

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Q1 2022 Newsletter www.protochips.com

PROTOCHIPS CONNECTIONS

IT’S ALL ABOUT CONNECTIONS

both for our TEM holders and for MEMS development.

efficient way to analyze and share your data during and

With the launch of our AXON product line in March

after the session. And now, with the release of AXON

2020, we made the next big step to really empower

Dose, you are finally connected to the impact of the

our customers to take their research to another level.

electron beam on your sample.

Welcome to the first issue of our new quarterly newsletter, Protochips Connections...

AXON Synchronicity created connections to your sample,

Our goal with this newsletter is to create new connections

providing a completely new level of stability in the TEM

with our customers, to share both developments on our

allowing higher quality data collection. At the same time,

side, and the exciting research being done on your side.

Protochips is known to the electron microscopy

connections to the holder, TEM column and the imaging

From product launches and technique development, to

system enabled unprecedented levels of metadata collection

exciting new publications and talks, the best science will

and, paired with AXON Studio, the most powerful and

come from connected labs!

as COVID releases its grip, I also look forward to the

a critical foundation to create. Turning all of this

question “So … what does Protochips do?” Electron

information into metadata that’s easily searchable and

microscopy is entering a new era, defined by our ability

accessible is clearly the next step. I believe it’s likely

to generate volumes of data in a single session. When

we delete more Nature papers than we publish.

Mike Coy | Senior Director, Global Applications Marketing

world as the market leader in in-situ technology,

David Nackashi, PhD | CEO, Co-founder

I tell my friends that many of our customers easily fill Before COVID when friends and family would get

a 1 terabyte drive in a couple of hours or less, they

In these regular newsletters, we look forward to

together around the holidays, I’d inevitably get the

immediately think about how to search, manage and

sharing with you many applications explored through

question from a cousin or aunt, “So … what does

store all that information … one of the big problems

our in situ systems, and how linking them to our

Protochips do?” For the next minute I’d try to describe

we’re all trying to solve.

machine vision platform, AXON, creates an entirely new methods of discovery. You’ll meet our team, our

electron microscopy, resorting to poor analogies that only confused the discussion further until a point

People often ask why is Protochips, a company known

customers, and most importantly, learn what your

where we both decided we needed more wine. I’m

for in situ microscopy, working on these issues? Well,

colleagues are researching around the world. Thank

sure this moment sounds familiar to all you. Often

it’s because we were a part of the problem. In situ

you for taking the time to explore with us, and for

the pain points we’re trying to solve aren’t familiar or

microscopy brings in data streams from many different

many reasons, I hope you soon will enjoy a moment

directly relatable to many people, unless you explain

sources, including potentiostats, mass spec systems,

when a friend asks you what you do for a living!

things at a level so high it’s pretty nebulous.

power supplies and other instrumentation. It became

I don’t feel the same way anymore. Not only do I look

clear to us that synchronizing all this information within

forward to getting together with family and friends

a S/TEM image stack that’s stable and in focus was


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