Understanding that in situ analytical techniques are key to accelerating materials research, AXT have assembled Australia’s most extensive range of solutions for SEM and TEM users. To ensure their clients have the best options available, AXT have recently added NewTec Scientific’s range of in situ SEM platforms which are also fully supported by their in-house technical and expertise and applications team and their extensive service network.

Cathodyne - Optical Cathodoluminescence

A fast and sensitive optical CL imaging system that uses a plasma source and doesn't need a SEM to work.

ExoSEM - Ex Situ Bench for Thermo-Mechanical Testing

360° viewing during a thermal or thermomechanical test outside your SEM

FurnaSEM - in situ SEM Furnace

In Situ SEM furnace ideal for high temperature studies up to 1300°C. perform dynamic studies inside your SEM or under an optical microscope.

MT 1000 Tensile/Compression Stage

The most precise and functional thermo-mechanical testing system on the market

Founded in 2012 by a team of engineers, NewTec Scientific designs and manufactures precision thermo-mechanical stages/in situ SEM platforms that allow you to perform dynamic in situ experiments in SEMs (Scanning Electron Microscopes) or even under light microscopes. Their range of products includes:

• MT1000 – heating and cooling tensile stage
• FurnaSEM – In situ SEM furnace up to 1000°C suitable for high vacuum, low vacuum and environmental modes
• ExoSEM – Ex situ chamber facilitating the understanding of sample behaviour before SEM examination
• Cathodyne – Cathodoluminescence device for optical and SEM microscopes

These systems are compatible with many existing SEM models. The first MT1000, FurnaSEM1000°C and 1200°C with ExoSEM have already been installed in a TESCAN CLARA FEG-SEM at Monash University, SHR Institute, TANIST project. This installation was part of a success LIEF Grant application lead by Professor Mike Preuss who is continuing research he was previously leading at the University of Manchester, where he established a similar system to investigate the performance of titanium and nickel-based superalloys under demanding conditions.

Richard Trett, AXT’s Managing Director commented, “Australia has a growing space, defence, and energy materials research need. NewTec Scientific solve the problems typical in these advanced materials in operating under ever more extreme conditions at the micro and nano scales.”

Antoine Candeias, one of the co-founders of NewTec Scientific added, “we identified Australia’s research excellence which is an exact fit for our products and we look forward to working with Richard and his team at AXT to ensure that the system installed at Monash University will be the first of many”.

The NewTec product line complements AXT’s existing range of in situ products including nanomanipulators and probe stations from Kleindiek Nanotechnik, AFM in SEM systems from NenoVision, TEM platforms from DENSsolutions as well as SEMs from TESCAN and microCTs from TESCAN, Sigray, Diondo and Rigaku.