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ZEISS Axio Imager 2 for Materials Research

Open Microscope System for Automated Material Analysis

When you perform advanced materials research introduce ease of use into your light microscopy workflow. Benefit from accurate and reproducible results using ZEISS Axio Imager 2 for materials. Choose the system tailored to your applications. Expand your instrument with dedicated solutions for e.g., particle analysis, confocal or correlative microscopy.

Reproducible results
Modular design
High optical performance

Reproducible Results

Enjoy Vibration-Free Working Conditions

Stability is essential if you want to obtain good results. Appreciate the stable imaging conditions of Axio Imager 2, especially when working with high magnifications or performing time dependent studies. Due to the motorization of Axio Imager 2 achieve quick and reproducible results while always working under constant conditions.

Modular Design

Gain Enhanced Flexibility

Whether in academic or industrial research, materials microscopy faces various challenges. With Axio Imager 2 you will be able to meet and win these challenges. Attach application-specific components and perform e.g. particle analysis. Investigate non-metallic inclusions (NMI), liquid crystals, or semiconductor-based MEMs. Expand your instrument with dedicated solutions for confocal or correlative microscopy.

High Optical Performance

Achieve Superb Contrast and Resolution

Examine a range of materials e.g., metals, composites, or liquid crystals with different contrasting techniques.
Use reflected light and observe your samples in brightfield, darkfield, differential interference contrast (DIC), circular differential interference contrast (C-DIC), polarization or fluorescence.
Use transmitted light and examine your samples in brightfield, darkfield, differential interference contrast (DIC), polarization or circular polarization. The contrast manager ensures reproducible illumination settings.

Brightfield

Brightfield

Brightfield
Darfield

Darfield

Darfield
Polarization (crossed polars)

Polarization (crossed polars)

Polarization (crossed polars)
Polarization with additional lambda compensator

Polarization with additional lambda compensator

Polarization with additional lambda compensator
Circular Differential Interference Contrast (C-DIC)

Circular Differential Interference Contrast (C-DIC)

Circular Differential Interference Contrast (C-DIC)

A Choice of Contrasting Techniques

Cast iron with spherulitic graphite, polished sample, identical same site imaged with different contrasting techniques (field of view 265 µm). Images: courtesy of Dr. H.-L. Steyer, Kesselsdorf, Germany.

Ergonomics

As Multifaceted as Your Surfaces

Axio Imager.Z2m or Axio Imager.M2m display key operating functions on a touch screen, giving you fingertip control of all motorized components. Additional control buttons are positioned ergonomically around the focus drive, with tactile surfaces that make them easy to distinguish. Axio Imager.D2m has five pre-programmed buttons while Axio Imager.Z2m has ten user-definable buttons. Axio Imager.A2m is encoded.

Thermomicroscopy

Flexible Documentation of Temperature Changes

Do you want to examine how temperature influences the behavior of metals, crystals, ceramics or plastics?

With ZEN core and Linkam heating stages you define heating or cooling experiments. Document the temperature pattern in a time lapse series. The result you obtain is a log of the temperature and vacuum data in each time lapse image. Observe sample changes during the heating or cooling process for example in the field of quality control.

Materials Science – Liquid Crystalline

A. Getsis and A. Mudring, Ruhr University, Bochum, DE
Liquid-crystalline phase of [C14mim]Br at 100ºC in a THMS 600 Linkam heating stage, polarization contrast, objective: EC EPIPLAN 10x/0.20. Image: courtesy of

Materials Science – Liquid Crystalline
Materials Science - Metals

AlNi3,5 anodized according to Barker Polarization contrast, objective: EC EPIPLAN NEOFLUAR 20x/0.50. Image: courtesy of ACCESS e.V. Aachen and Foundry Institute of RWTH Aachen University, DE

Materials Science - Metals
Industrial Microscopy

Structure of the surface of a furniture wood, darkfield, objective: EC Epiplan APOCHROMAT 10x/0.30

Industrial Microscopy
Materials Science – Magnetic materials

Kerr-effect of Nd2Fe14B magnetic domain.

Materials Science - Magnetic Materials
Materials Science – Carbon Fibre

Fluorescence image of a carbon fiber cross section taken on an Axio Imager

Materials Science – Carbon Fibre
Solar Cell

Surface of a mono-crystalline silicon solar cell, Axio Imager, EC Epiplan-APOCHROMAT 100x/0.95

Solar Cell
Complex multiphase mixture of sandstones by crossed polar light microscopy

Geoscience

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