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