Gatan, Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of instrumentation and software used to enhance and extend the operation and performance of electron microscopes. Gatan's products, which are fully compatible with all brands of electron microscopes, cover the entire range of the analytical process from specimen preparation and manipulation to imaging and analysis. Its customer base spans the complete spectrum of end-users of analytical instrumentation typically found in industrial, governmental, and academic laboratories.

Earlier this year, Gatan announced that it had merged with EDAX, LLC, a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation. The combined organization will retain the Gatan name, offering the ultimate suite of tools for transmission electron microscopes (TEM) and scanning electron microscopes (SEM). With broad product and organization overlap between Gatan and EDAX, transitioning to Gatan as the prominent trade name for all products will allow the organization to capitalize on its synergies fully, according to company officials. EDAX will still provide customers high-quality, reliable products and the responsive customer care and support they expect. Joining Gatan will provide EDAX with more resources and allow it to leverage Gatan's strong analytical capabilities and high-level technical expertise.

"This merger will allow Gatan to continue to push the boundaries of science on both the TEM and SEM," according to Narayan Vishwanathan, Vice President and Business Unit Manager of AMETEK Electron Microscopy Technologies. "Gatan and EDAX have already demonstrated synergies in their product portfolios, including the Cipher System, the first and only system that quantitatively reveals the distribution of lithium in the SEM. We look forward to further integrating our teams, knowledge, and skills and are excited about what the future holds."

To successfully reach the energy reduction pledges of governments worldwide, researchers are developing lithium compounds and alloys to improve the capacity and storage of renewable energy technologies. Quantifying and understanding the micro-scale distribution of lithium has become more pressing during the development of this integral technology. In December 2022, Gatan launched the Cipher system, which officials say is the first and only system that reveals, quantitatively, the distribution of lithium in conventional scanning electron microscopes and dual beam instruments. Using an original concept, the Cipher system combines quantitative analysis of backscattered electrons and the x-ray fluorescence signal to reveal lithium using a composition-by-difference method. Researchers can now utilize a turnkey solution in the DigitalMicrograph software to collect quantitative data, correlate, and analyze lithium at the microscale.

"For many years, a method to reliably detect lithium has been considered the holy grail of microanalysis," says David Stowe, Product Manager. "However, due to fundamental limits of physics, reliable measurement of the lithium content in critical materials such as those used in lithium-ion batteries has proved unachievable. With the launch of Cipher, a ground-breaking method is now available to reveal the lithium content in metallic alloys, compounds, and complex metal oxides down to low single-digit weight percentages."

Gatan is a business of AMETEK, Inc. AMETEK is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions that serve a diverse set of niche markets and produce annual sales over $6 billion. Gatan's corporate headquarters are located at Hacienda, where the company has been a tenant since 1997.

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