Q3 2022 - Protochips Newsletter

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Q3 2022 Newsletter www.protochips.com

PROTOCHIPS CONNECTIONS

Portland Bound

IT’S ALL ABOUT CONNECTIONS

I attended my first M&M in 1993 in Cincinnati,

At Protochips, we are incredibly excited to show you

OH.

At the time, I was a grad student finishing up

our contributions to the advancements in the field. By

my degree and had become totally fascinated by the

pairing our machine vision AXONTM Platform to our

capabilities of electron microscopes and the new worlds

market leading in-situ Holders, we have created a new

they revealed. I was looking for a job in the electron

level of solutions that will enhance productivity and

microscopy field and was incredibly excited to attend the

enable new discovery. Adding our new AXON DoseTM

conference and see what opportunities were out there.

module, you will now be able to quantify, visualize and report electron dose in ways that weren’t possible

It’s now 29 years later, and I am possibly even more

previously.

excited to attend M&M 2022 than I was for the show Mike Coy | Senior Director, Global Applications Marketing

in 1993.

For the first time since 2019, microscopists

I’m really looking forward to seeing all the friends and

and scientists from all over the world will gather in

colleagues I’ve made in almost 30 years of attending

person to share their research and results, presenting

M&M. Please stop by our booth and see what we’ve

new technology and techniques to push the horizons of

been up to!

EM even further. I can’t wait to see what’s presented.

Another was how careful each talk was to report dose

are so important to accurately measuring dose. The

rate and total accumulated dose information for the

most exciting part of this, however, is the inclusion of

TEM data they collected. One point was very clear: we

accurate dose information into the metadata of every

don’t have a standard way to calibrate or report dose

image and sharing this data on our freely available

Two months ago in May, I was fortunate enough

information that can easily be shared and reproduced,

AXON StudioTM platform. In one experiment, we’ve

to attend and give a short presentation on behalf of

especially when using different detectors or TEMs.

actually shown beam damage to a specific zeolite

Protochips at the 2022 PICO conference at Kasteel

Since Protochips first introduced Poseidon, our liquid

sample can be corelated to a total accumulated dose

Vaalsbroek. It was a fantastic scientific program and

TEM solution, we’ve consistently received feedback on

level and the results reproduced between two very

chance to see old friends for the first time in almost

the importance of this capability. Of course, this need

different TEMs from different labs across the world!

3 years. In addition, several trends were apparent

extends well beyond liquid TEM.

David Nackashi, PhD | CEO, Co-founder

throughout the program.

For those of you coming to M&M this year in

One was the speed of

adoption of pixelated STEM detectors and how much

After years of development, Protochips just released our

Portland, please come by our booth and see real

great scientific work is coming from these techniques.

AXON Dose module which includes a dose calibration

dose datasets for yourself in a variety of applications

Our community has a significant data volume

holder (based on a Faraday cup) and our revolutionary

including the zeolite experiment I described above.

challenge ahead, but the potential is amazing and in

AXON software for visualizing and sharing dose. Our

We look forward to seeing many of you for the first

time new data handling techniques will certainly be

CTO and my cofounder, John Damiano, authored an

time in 3 years and we hope you have an educational

developed.

article in this month’s Microscopy Today explaining our

and enjoyable conference!

approach and why capabilities including drift correction


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