Hitachi High-Tech releases HT7700 transmission electron microscope

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO:8036)(Hitachi High-Tech) has announced the development and release of the HT7700, a new type of transmission electron microscope (TEM) that integrates previously complex system operation onto a single monitor screen, and allows for sample observation even under normal room light conditions. Sales of the HT7700 will begin outside of Japan in August 2010.

The HT7700 model, set for an August 2010 launch by Hitachi High-Tech, was developed as the latest addition to the H-7000 series of Hitachi TEM products, which have seen sales of over 800 units worldwide. The HT7700 was designed with groundbreaking features, chief among these are a superior level of operability and an extensive range of useful digital imaging functions. These features ensure usability across the broadest possible range of applications fields, from the main application area of biomedical to nanotechnology and soft carbon based materials. Furthermore, the decision to integrate a high resolution digital camera and microscope operation has made the system control simplified through the use of one monitor screen possible, which allows for sample observation even under ordinary room lighting.

Hitachi High-Tech is scheduled to have a working model of the HT7700 on display at the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2010 (M&M-2010), the annual meeting of the Microbeam Analysis Society being held in Portland, Oregon (USA) from August 1-5, 2010.