
ZEISS Xradia Synchrotron Achieve Energy-Tunable Ultra-High Resolution 3D Imaging at Your Synchrotron
ZEISS Xradia Synchrotron brings nanoscale X-ray imaging to your synchrotron facility, enabling you to forgo costly and time-consuming in-house development. Proprietary X-ray optics and a 3D X-ray spectro-microscopy platform deliver the ultra-bright, tunable X-ray beams available at facilities. Achieve fast non-destructive 3D imaging with a resolution less than 30 nm. The Xradia Synchrotron family covers energy ranges from soft to hard X-rays under diverse environments e.g. cryo-, in situ heating, load, electrochemical.

Maximize Your Scientific Output
- Benefit from this turnkey high resolution X-ray microscope
- Your instrument’s uptime is taken care of by the global 24/7 support network
- From sample prep to data collection to reconstruction: make the most of this highly efficient end-to-end workflow solution
- Use your platform’s performance in an optimal way by networking with the community of synchrotron scientists
Beam path, transmission X-ray microscopy architecture (TXM).

Experience Leading 3D Resolution and Contrast
- Achieve a spatial resolution of less than 30 nm
- Image with a variety of available contrast modes such as fluorescence, Zernike, XANES
- Extend your platform to meet your research needs with e.g. cryo-, in situ modules


Advanced Imaging in 4D and Beyond
- Leverage X-ray beams available at 2nd and 3rd generation synchrotron facilities
- Combine imaging with XANES spectroscopy
- Map elemental and chemical composition in 3D
- Study nanostructural evolution in situ under real operating conditions e.g. in batteries
- Monitor chemical reactions in a gas or fluid flow reactor
- Quantify the distribution of chemical phases under high pressure using a diamond-anvil-cell.
Human cancer cell. Elemental Distribution in a human cancer cell. Image courtesy of C. Weekley, University of Adelaide.
Applications
ZEISS Xradia Synchrotron

Nickel Battery

3D image of the chemical composition of a Nickel battery electrode (red: NiO, green: Ni); imaged with Xradia 800 Synchrotron.
Nickel Battery
3D image of the chemical composition of a Nickel battery electrode (red: NiO, green: Ni); imaged with Xradia 800 Synchrotron.

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

Multi-phase imaging of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electrode; imaged with Xradia 800 Synchrotron.
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Multi-phase imaging of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electrode; imaged with Xradia 800 Synchrotron.

Virus-infected Ptk2 Cell

Segmented 3D rendering of a virus-infected Ptk2 cell. Blue: nucleus, red/orange: virus particles; width of the cell appr. 10 µm; Xradia 825 Synchrotron. Image courtesy of: F.J. Chichon, CNB-CSIC and ALBA Synchrotron (Spain).
Virus-infected Ptk2 Cell
Segmented 3D rendering of a virus-infected Ptk2 cell. Blue: nucleus, red/orange: virus particles; width of the cell appr. 10 µm; Xradia 825 Synchrotron. Image courtesy of: F.J. Chichon, CNB-CSIC and ALBA Synchrotron (Spain).
Xradia 800 Synchrotron
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Xradia 825 Synchrotron
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Materials Science |
Monitor battery electrode particles in operando during the charge-discharge cycle. Perform chemical imaging of catalyst particles in situ. Analyze SOFC nanostructure in situ at operating temperature. |
Perform chemical imaging of polymers by spectro-microscopy. |
Life Sciences |
Study toxicity of nanoparticles in cells and tissue. Image and quantify the nanostructure of bone. |
Visualize ultrastructure in whole, unsectioned cells in the frozen hydrated state. Correlate X-ray and optical fluorescence microscopy for combined structural and functional imaging. |
Natural Resources, Geo- and Environmental Sciences |
Visualize morphology of iron melt at Earth’s lower mantle conditions. Study microstructure of soil particles relevant to water retention. |
Study micro-organisms in wet environments. |
Electronics |
Image integrated circuits to find malicious modifications. |
Image magnetic domains on the nanoscale. |