Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility in Oxfordshire, has taken delivery of seven Carbolite electric furnaces designed to provide researchers with a broad spectrum of high-quality thermal equipment for sample preparation and processing.

The new VacControl vacuum gauge from Busch is a completely new way of measuring the vacuum level directly within the vacuum packaging and of monitoring and documenting the measured data online. VacControl constantly checks packaging integrity and records and archives the results.

PI (Physik Instrumente) has published a digital Flash catalog on piezo technology and nanopositioning products. The 560 page digital publication also contains extensive tutorials on piezo motion technology, and the fundamentals of nanopositioning, micropositioning and nanometrology.

The SCR Nano-positioning Series from Micromech offers the accuracy of piezo driven stages with the speed and performance of servo stages. Through the use of complex motion profiles, the SCR series produces extremely accurate results with no loss in stability.