Oxford Instruments is delighted that its new Unity detector has been recognised as one of the ten best microscopy innovations of the year in the 2024 Microscopy Today Innovation Awards.

Each year, Microscopy Today awards ten organizations or individuals for innovations they have launched or published in microscopy or microanalysis. Winners are selected based on the usefulness of the product and method to the microscopy community. Winners are those judged to provide better, faster, easier, or entirely new methods of analysis using a microscope or microanalytical instrument.

The Unity BEX imaging detector was launched at M&M2023, the leading annual conference for the microscopy and microanalysis community, and its arrival hailed the introduction of an entirely new analytical technique: BEX. Unity captures and combines BSE and X-ray signals simultaneously, allowing users to instantly observe the microstructure and chemistry of samples in full-colour, high-resolution images.

The game-changing design of Unity places the BSE and X-ray sensors directly beneath the EM pole piece, enabling it to produce topographic, crystallographic, atomic number and elemental information in an immediate, high-resolution visual output. Users can effortlessly navigate around the sample, making sophisticated sample analyses simpler and faster than ever before.

“Microscopy Today is a publication of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) which provides information of interest to microscopists working in all fields. It is a real honour for Unity to be recognized as being such an important step forward in SEM analytical technology,” says Haithem Mansour, BEX Product Manager, “ and it is particularly gratifying to receive this recognition from such a well-respected organization in the world of Microscopy.”

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