Gatan is the world's leading manufacturer of instrumentation and software used to enhance and extend the operation and performance of electron microscopes. Gatan’s customer base spans the complete spectrum of end-users of analytical instrumentation typically found in industrial, governmental, and academic laboratories. These scientists and researchers address applications in new materials research, semiconductors, electronics, geosciences, biological science, and biotechnology.

The company is a member of the Electronic Instruments segment of AMETEK. Gatan’s products are fully compatible with all brands of electron microscopes. They cover the entire range of the analytical process, from specimen preparation and manipulation to imaging and analysis. In late October, Gatan added to its product family by launching the new EDAX Elite T Ultra energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) system for (scanning) transmission electron microscopy (STEM).

The Elite T Ultra is ideal for compositional analysis and in-situ electron microscopy in the STEM. Previously, rapid elemental mapping was challenging due to the low signal levels generated from thin samples in the STEM. However, utilizing a proprietary windowless 160 mm2 x-ray sensor, the Elite T Ultra now delivers outstanding detection efficiencies to address a broader range of elements and accelerate compositional mapping during material characterization studies.

“The Elite T Ultra offers exceptional data collection rates and sensitivity to light and heavy elements,” according to Dr. David Stowe, Senior Product Manager for Gatan. “Using a sensor eighty percent larger than conventional large-area detectors while maintaining a compact sensor design with an unobstructed high solid collection angle, the Elite T Ultra detector can be inserted close to the sample, maximizing the collection of x-rays emitted by your sample.”

Notes Narayan Vishwanathan, Vice President and Business Unit Manager of AMETEK Electron Microscopy Technologies, “Utilizing eaSI technology, the Elite T Ultra system can record synchronized STEM signals including EDS, electron energy loss spectroscopy, or EELS, 4D STEM, and cathodoluminescence from multiple detectors simultaneously. It links multi-dimensional datasets seamlessly to give users a complete view of their specimen in conventional and in-situ analyses.”

The new product has roots in Gatan’s March 2023 merger with EDAX, LLC, a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation. The combined organization retained the Gatan name and today offers the ultimate suite of tools for transmission electron and scanning electron microscopes. Gatan has been a Hacienda tenant since September 1997. Gatan is a business of AMETEK, Inc., a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions, serving a diverse set of niche markets with annual sales of over $7 billion.

For more information about Gatan, Inc., please visit www.gatan.com.

For more information about the EDAX Elite T Ultra EDS system, please visit www.gatan.com/products/tem-imaging-spectroscopy/edax-elite-t-eds-systems.