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State-of-the-art Electronic Microscopes are Now More Familiar than Ever

[Image] State-of-the-art Electronic Microscopes are Now More Familiar than ever Miniscope TM-1000, the user-friendly electronic microscope

  1. Part 1 Have you ever seen the microscopic world?
  2. Part 2 Contributing to the further development of eco-technologies!
  3. Part 3 The first job in my career that my kids can understand.

For many people, the last chance to touch a microscope may have been in a science room of an elementary school when they were children. Naturally, when it comes to an 'electron microscope', they must feel that it is something quite hard to understand as well as unfamiliar. This article is about an electron microscope that has totally changed this typical view.

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[Image] Kenichi Hirane, First Advanced Analysis System Designing Department, Naka Division, Nanotechnology Products Business Group, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation

Here is an interview with the designer about the invisible world.

Kenichi Hirane, First Advanced Analysis System Designing Department, Naka Division, Nanotechnology Products Business Group, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
Mr. Hirane was born in Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, where the Naka Works is located. He is in charge of design and development in the development project of TM-1000 Desktop Electron Microscope which began in 2003. Mr. Hirane is a true Hitachi man who has felt familiarity with Hitachi ever since he could remember, as his father was also an employee of an affiliated company of Hitachi.

[Image] Naka Works

Naka Works

The Naka Works offer the manufacturing and maintenance service of products (semiconductor production equipment, electronic microscopes and various analyzers) for the field of nanotechnology, by introducing cutting-edge technologies faster than their competitors and making full use of analysis and measurement technologies, which are their specialties.

State-of-the-art Electronic Microscopes are Now More Familiar than ever
  1. Part 1 Have you ever seen the microscopic world?
  2. Part 2 Contributing to the further development of eco-technologies!
  3. Part 3 The first job in my career that my kids can understand.