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