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Summer School on Computational and Experimental Photoelectron Spectroscopy

We are pleased to announce that SCE-PES 2026 - a Summer School on Computational and Experimental Photoelectron…

Update of our Email-Domain to ...@specs-group.com

As part of our continuous corporate development, we are adjusting our digital identity to reflect our current…

From Quantum Spins to Controlled Nanostructures

Controlling Quantum States with the JT-STM Dr. Serrate’s team has pioneered work on graphene nanoribbons (GNRs)…

From Single Spins to High-Temperature Dynamics

Dr. David Serrate and the LMA Mission The Laboratorio de Microscopías Avanzadas (LMA) at the University of…

Focus MARIS Series and SPECS Systems – The new Dream Team

Today, we are happy to announce a new era in photoemission and momentum microscopy for SPECSGROUP. As of July…

Outstanding Measurement Data from µFocus 450

Our latest application note presents the first results achieved with the new µFOCUS 450 X-ray source. With its…

Focus – The Latest Member of our Group

Focus – A New Look, A Trusted Name What makes Focus a trusted name in the scientific community? Reliability,…

Trade-In your Nanonis Mimea BP4 or older

Upgrade Your Research with the Nanonis Trade-In Promotion – Until June 2025! In the fast-paced world of…

Expanded Image Display & High-Capacity Data Logging

Continuous improvements are at the core of Nanonis software development, ensuring that researchers have the most…

New System for the University of Twente

Near Ambient Pressure and high energy XPS is the key technology to understand the physical and chemical…

SPECS-TII Inc. and Nanosurf join Forces

SPECS-TII Inc. is excited to announce that as of August 1, 2024, the distribution, support, and application…

Merger of FOCUS GmbH and SPECS GmbH

FOCUS GmbH, Geräte zur Elektronenspektroskopie und Oberflächenanalytik GmbH, as a leading manufacturer of…

20 Years of Nanonis SPM Controller

Frustration in a research lab can be part of the daily routine. Often that frustration is related to measurement…

Summer Special – Upgrade Your Research with Nanonis Mimea BP5e

In today's rapidly evolving scientific landscape, technological advancements that were cutting-edge not long ago…

SPECS Engineers Install an Upgrade at the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Research and Technology

The Leibniz Institute for Plasma Research and Technology e.V. (INP) stands as the largest non-university…

Latest Nanonis Features

Once again, two minor modifications have been introduced in the Nanonis software, aimed at simplifying the lives…

Technology is our Passion

Lab14 is the holding company of SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH and a daughter of the RSGB SE foundation.…

Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence in Nanosurface Analysis

At SPECS, we are thrilled to mark a significant milestone in our journey – 30 years of pioneering advancements…

Free coherent evolution of a coupled atomic spin system initialized by electron scattering

Sander Otte's group at TU Delft reported a novel pump-probe ESR-STM method using the Nanonis Mimea in…

Another pearl in the pacific

The research group led by Keshav Dani and Michael Man at the Okinawa Institute of Technology (OIST) has recently…

Extended trade-in offer for older Nanonis Mimea base packages

The tremendous increase of costs for electronic equipment have recently forced all companies worldwide to raise…

New COSCON SIS series is available

The COSCON SIS series is the latest development in our component smart control power supply series COSCON. The…

The ASTRAIOS 190 in the Land of the Rising Sun

We are pleased to announce the first installation of an ASTRAIOS 190 analyzer in Japan. The instrument has been…

Celebrating a Decade of Nanonis 5th generation Systems: Looking Back and Ahead

Exactly ten years ago, on June 14, 2013, we delivered the first Nanonis Base Package 5 to a customer in Japan.…

SPECS Celebrates 25 Years of PHOIBOS

In 1998 SPECS developed a new, fully hemispherical energy analyzer - laying the foundation for the most…

Our scripting gets more flexibility

While most measurement instruments are fitted with some sort of API, Nanonis scripting is unique as the scripts…

Evolution of Interaction – Consistent. Clear. Comprehensive.

Back in 2014 (on the 16th of April to be precise), SPECS released the first version of SpecsLab Prodigy, the…

Upgrade to the latest analysis methods without buying a complete new system

Researchers with limited budgets or older systems often do not have the opportunity to buy a new system. We…

Synchronization of external instruments during Z-spectroscopy

Complex experiments may require several different instruments to be exactly synchronized, and potentially for…

AEOLOS 150 – A Cutting Edge Electron Energy Analyzer

Since the launch of the EnviroMETROS last year, the XPS community has gained access to a completely new way of…

µFOCUS 450 – The Flexible X-ray Source for XPS

Together with the launch of our AEOLOS 150, we are proud to present the next member in our portfolio for…

Sponsoring Chinese University Football Team

SPECS-TII Technology, a Chinese subsidiary of our joint venture with Tokyo Instruments Inc, has sponsored the…

SPECS welcomes Nanosurf

The Lab14 Group - a group of successful high-tech companies with complementary products and services for a wide…

Nanonis – Seamless generic preamplifier integration

SPM measurements typically require two types of preamplifiers: An I/V converter for the tunneling current, and…

Nanonis – Improved visualization of user channels

User channels are input and output signals which are not assigned to a specific functionality (for example…

MICRO DYNAMICS – Our new partner in India

Micro Dynamics is our new sales and service partner in India. With 18 years of experience as a main supplier of…

First SPECS system in Egypt

We are very happy to announce our first system installation in Egypt! A SPECS ProvenX PS system is now the…

Continuous development of Nanonis Tramea

Recently, Tramea received many enhanced functionalities Nanonis Tramea™ is the only integrated solution for…

Focus now member of LAB14 Group

SPECS welcomes Focus as new member of the LAB14 Group LAB14 Group has acquired 100% of Focus GmbH in Hünstetten…

Welcome EnviroMETROS

The novel EnviroMETROS series revolutionizes the field of surface hybrid metrology. As core method angle…

New features for Nanonis lock-in modules

Synchronize external instruments with the internal lock-in modules All lock-in modules now feature a…

Nanonis turns 20

20 years ago, on September 12th 2002 a visionary physicist founded a company with the goal to develop and market…

Ultimate surface sensitivity with LEISS, using the PHOIBOS analyzer.

A known challenge in surface science is obtaining spectroscopic data from the topmost atomic layer, since…

AD-CMOS Detector

The growing attention received from non-destructive surface analysis techniques based on electron and ion…

One step closer to full automatization of ARPES systems

A year after the release of our COSCON IS and COSCON FG power supplies, we proudly introduce you to a new member…

Operando-SPM observation of the polyethylene formation

First direct in-situ experimental evidence of the ethylene polymerization pathway at the molecular level was…

Investigation of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein using EnviroESCA

The impact of the global pandemic due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has…

IONSLAB - Your local contact for sales and services in Turkey

With IONSLAB Laboratory Systems and Engineering Inc., we now have a new sales and services partner in Turkey.…

Control your experiments rather than just your instrument

Cutting-edge instruments for scientific research and development are often highly customized solutions of a…

Newly developed endstation for SpAnTeX

The development of modern NAP-XPS spectrometers, allowing for operation at pressures > 25 mbar (so equal or…

It's a truism: Regular maintenance increases reliability!

In 2014, SPECS took on an extremely complex project management task. A unique ultra high vacuum systems for thin…

SPECS-TII Inc. grows in staff

As we continue to closely monitor COVID-19 impacts across the country, our commitment and dedication to our…

Professional system relocations

System moves are a complex task. We have made it our business to perfect this task and to implement it…

SPECS NAP-XPS system at Eindhoven University of Technology

Assistant professors Dr. Nikolay Kosinov and Dr. Marta Costa Figueiredo, members of Prof. Emiel Hensen's…

Measurements on quantum dot devices with Nanonis Tramea

Quantum scientists at IMRE Singapore who engineer and investigate next generation materials and devices for use…

Sales and Service in Russia

At SPECS we have a responsibility and obligation, aligned with other global businesses, to respond to the…

State-of-the-art NAP-XPS system for surface characterisation

Prof. Vladimir Matolín of the Nanomaterials Group at Charles University, Prague, can now include an EnviroESCA…

Operando Studies with NAP-XPS on Aluminum Oxidation

The group of Francois Rochet from the Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement at Sorbonne…

Observing Surface States Across Several Brillouin Zones

The Au(111) surface state is a well-known structure studied in angular resolved photoelectron spectroscopy…

Marit Kjærvik recently finished her PhD Thesis

Marit Kjærvik (BAM, TU Berlin) recently finished her PhD Thesis with the title „Applications of near-ambient…

New LEEM system at Harvard University

A new low energy electron microscope with integrated aberration correction system (FE-LEEM P90 AC) has been…

SPECS at IFOX of Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin

SPECS is proud to have made a major contribution to the science at the Institute on Functional Oxides for…

Carl-Ramsauer Awards 2021 of the PGzB sponsored by SPECS

It is a pleasure to announce, that also in 2021 SPECS sponsored the Carl-Ramsauer Awards of the Physikalische…

Spacetek – Cutting-edge time-of-flight gas analysis from Switzerland

Spacetek, a Swiss company from Gümligen close to Bern offers with the IonTamerTM-Series uncompromized gas…

A new star is born ...

µSIRIUS with the new µFOCAL 100 optics is a next generation spectroscopic VUV light source for laboratory…

Probing of superconducting tunnel junctions by photon-assisted tunneling with Nanonis Mimea

Researchers from FU Berlin have recently employed Nanonis Mimea to probe tunneling mechanisms between…

Sygnis - Your local contact for SPECS-Products in Poland

We are very pleased to have found a new distribution partner in Poland with Sygnis Nano Technologies. The Sygnis…

Nanonis Tramea - fully integrated, software-based quantum transport measurement system.

A team of scientists at the University of Cologne investigated quantum confinement of the Dirac surface states…

Angular and Momentum Resolution of the ASTRAIOS 190 2D-CMOS

In todays blog post we are proud to share some recent experimental results demonstrating the superior electron…

NAP-XPS reveals interaction of MOF with water and methanol

In a highlight publication of 2021, researchers from German Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung…

Study of Effects Encountered in Chiral Topological Semimetals

Hemispherical analyzers for photoelectron spectroscopy are widely used in variety of topics and research areas.…

Reliability with a maintenance contract

At SPECS, we are happy to work with our customers and their systems, even years after installation. One of our…

NAP-XPS open access facility in Prague: New publications

The Surface Physics Laboratory (SPL) at Charles University is an open-access facility that is part of the…

Time-resolved XPS at ALS: A snapshot camera for electron transfer

A team of scientists at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) investigated the photoinduced electron…

Revealing Dispersion Processes in Ag Nanoclusters with In Situ NAP Studies

Identifying the dispersion mechanism of Ag nanoclusters with the EnviroESCA and the NAP PEEM. Sintering, i.e.…

XPS-ARPES System for the University of Bremen

SPECS is proud to present an installation of a new XPS-ARPES module in the Solid State Materials group of Prof.…

Successful NAP-XPS System Installation in Innsbruck

A new NAP-XPS system has successfully been installed at the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of…

Leibniz Institute investigates the life-cycle of catalysts by using their NAP-XPS system

We are happy to announce that the NAP-XPS system installed at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock is…

JVST Special Topic collection

Following a symposium on AVS 2019 this Special Topic Collection features articles that address increasingly…

Generating A Surface metal by low fluence ultrafast excitation

The team around L. Gierster from the group of Prof. Julia Stähler has recently reported the ultrafast generation…

Energy Resolution of ASTRAIOS 190 2D-CMOS

Among the most important tests of a new analyzer generation is the evaluation of its resolving power. We are…

Special Components Offer to our customers in North America

SPECS-TII Inc. We constantly enhance capabilities, efficiency, and dependability of our well-proven components…

Cooperation Partners and Sales Channels for Nanonis Tramea

SPECSGROUP introduced a novel approach to quantum transport measurements Nanonis Tramea. It is a compact,…

Nanonis Position Readout Module for Capacitive Position Sensors PR5e

Scanning probe microscopes usually have x/y/z coarse positioning motors, which allow for tip/sample positioning…

ARPES in Semiconductor Device Fabrication

The recently installed KREIOS 150 electron momentum spectrometer installed into a ProvenX-MM system is now in…

New EnviroESCA Demo System at SPECS Headquarters

The SPECS EnviroESCA, introduced to the market about 5 years ago, is the only fully automated ESCA/XPS system…

Online Shopping of Spare Parts

A complete catalogue with prices is available in MY SPECS · About a year ago we launched your MY SPECS area on…

RSBG SE acquires SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH

RSBG SE sees itself as a long-term partner of medium-sized companies. Accordingly, the company uses a…

Direct Imaging of the Spin Asymmetry of the Au(111) Surface State

DISpin detector shows Rashba splitting In this joint project the direct imaging spin detector technology has…

XPS und UPS measurements with the ASTRAIOS analyzer

Today we give you another glimpse into the first results of our brand-new hemispherical electron energy…

First Publications from SpAnTeX Endstation

The first results from the SpAnTeX (Spectroscopic Analysis with Tender X-Rays) endstation installed on the KMC-1…

Band Structure of Graphene on SiC Measured with the New ASTRAIOS Analyzer

This week we are happy to share new results from our ASTRAIOS 190 2D-CMOS analyzer that demonstrates its…

Extended Trade-in offer for Nanonis BP3 and BP4

SPECS is happy to announce that the trade-in offer for older Nanonis SPM control system base packages has been…

ASTRAIOS Demonstration of the Single Spot Shifting Lens

As promised in our last blog post, in which we have demonstrated the capability of the new single spot shifting…

SpAnTeX Endstation at BESSY II Opens the Gates for Users

The SpAnTeX (Spectroscopic Analysis with Tender X-Rays) endstation installed at the KMC-1 beamline at the BESSY…

Battery research at Argonne National Lab using a SPECS Multimethod Platform

The development of high performance and environmentally friendly energy storage and new battery systems is one…

First Data from the ASTRAIOS 190 2D-CMOS

First tests of the recently finished ASTRAIOS 190 2D-CMOS has proven the high precision and superior technology…

Observation of Hidden Orbital Pseudospin Textures using new Physical Observables.

Looking at a new physical observable, the so called time-reversal dichroism in photoelectron angular…

System Installations with Challenges

2020 has been a very challenging year for all of us. The pandemic has given us new tasks and we, at SPECS, have…

A new star is born: the ASTRAIOS 190

We are very delighted to announce the first ASTRAIOS 190 is ready for final testing. After our last announcement…

PHOIBOS Analyzer Integration on HIDEN Analytical SIMS Workstation

SPECS is proud to present a new adaptation of a state of the art PHOIBOS 150 1D-DLD Energy analyzer and the high…

Interview Podcast with the CEO of SPECS

Ferdinand Rudolph-Bartels, the CEO of SPECS and actively supporting the start-up scene, has been interviewed by…

A Twin is Born – Sharing a Famous Pedigree

We are proud to announce, that on the last days of January the first KREIOS 150 MM Twin 2D-CMOS has been…

EnviroESCA successfully installed in Italy

We are proud to announce, that the Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials under the lead of Prof. Vito Di…

ProvenX System Series: Successful Start

The ProvenX system series illustrates our extensive experience in designing and fabricating state-of–the-art…

First KREIOS 150 MM DISpin on its way

Testing of the first KREIOS 150 MM DISpin has begun Latest news from the SPECS production team: The assembly of…

Observation of Momentum Forbidden Dark Excitons

Madeo et al. from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently reported the successful…

Streaming and visualization of raw data: New tools for Nanonis Mimea and Tramea

The introduction of the BP5e in 2019 saw several new features aimed at increasing data acquisition speed and…

The KREIOS 150 on the Edge of Semi Conductor Research

The first SPECS KREIOS 150 electron momentum spectrometer has been installed at the Attolab at Imec, a…

An Aberration Corrected Spin Resolved LEEM

The development for the spin polarized LEEM involved a special modification of the FE-LEEM P90 with an…

COSCON IS Power supply for IQE 11/35

SPECS is proud to announce a new component release: the COSCON IS power supply for fully digitalized control of…

First Spin-ARPES system in Spain has been installed at the University of Valencia, Materials Science Institute (ICMUV)

Prof. Juan Francisco Sanchez Royo and his research team from ICMUV have received a multi-tool ARPES instrument…

Quantitative Comparison between Momentum Microscopy and Conventional ARPES

J. Maklar et al. from the Structural & Electronics Surface Dynamics Group at the FHI Berlin have recently…

Carl-Ramsauer-Award

The Carl-Ramsauer-Award has been initiated in 1989 by AEG to award outstanding PhD theses in the area of science…

Black Friday 2020 Deals: November 27th to December 3rd

During this year's Black Friday week we are able to grant our customers a 25% discount on SPECS spare parts in…

Nature publication on Time-Resolved ARPES on Bismuth Telluride

Recently an article has been published by Reimann et al. in Nature (Vol. 562 (2018) 396;…

State-of-the-art research from aging instruments

Are you running an older surface analysis instrument in your lab and you feel its limitations? Are you facing…

Publication in Nature Chemistry based on data from SPM Aarhus 150

As the world first two-dimensional (2D) material, graphene, the atom-thick planar honeycomb structure composed…

ASTM E42 Surface Analysis Community Forum

Data in the literature that is poorly acquired, analyzed, or presented can have far reaching effects on the…

Latest Scientific Results from SPECS Multimethod Cluster System at CEITEC

The Multimethod Cluster System at CEITEC (Czech Republic) was used to study real time nucleation and growth…

SPECS XPS system for battery research at the Helmholtz institute in Ulm

Battery research is a fundamental keystone to tackling the challenge of global climate change. In order to…

In situ Electrochemical Cell: Product Presentation IS-EC-AP

Three-electrode-cell for electrochemical experiments under ambient pressure inert atmospheres Since more than…

First KREIOS 150 MM installation in Germany

The first SPECS Momentum Microscope in a ProvenX-MM System has been installed at the TU Dortmund in Germany. We…

Tramea - Ultrafast 2D-measurements at video-rate available soon and hdf5 support

Our newest, soon to be released measurement module offers measurement speeds to permit nanodevices to be tuned…

PHOIBOS 225 Installation at SOLARIS

High Resolution analyzer with 2D-CCD/3D-Spin VLEED detector for cutting-edge ARPES studies at the synchrotron in…

SPECS service in times of Corona

Reliable and excellent service is part of our company commitment. For this reason, we are proud to have managed…

NAP XPS reference spectra

Stand-alone near ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) instruments, like the EnviroESCA,…

Operando Electrochemical Cell for Near Ambient Pressure Applications: O-EC-NAP

SPECS Gmbh product portfolio for NAP-XPS measurements at solid-liquid interface has now been expanded by the…

SpecsLab Prodigy 4.71 New Features

With the new release of SpecsLab Prodigy, the following new features are now available to our users. …

New COSCON FG power supply

COSCON FG is the power supply unit for the FG 22/35 floodgun with continuous energy range 1-500 eV and replaces…

Native digital support for 4-quadrant scan piezo tubes

Many Scanning Tunneling Microscopes use a design where the outside of the piezo tube has four quadrants. In this…

Near ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy of fruit and vegetables

In this note we present first NAP-XPS results from a fresh tomato and apple using the EnviroESCA. Portions of…

Tandem demodulation and amplitude feedback for lock-in modules

The BP5e signal architecture has been designed with the goal of being even more flexible than that of its…

Science Mug Contest 2020

In Fall 2019 we asked you to submit results taken with components or systems from SPECS, Nanonis or Enviro.…

Preventive Maintenance Contracts

In light of recent positive customer feedback, a preventative maintenance contract will ensure that your system…

MY SPECS customer portal replaces Nanonis Extranet

The SPECS Zurich website is being relocated. The website previously located www.specs-zurich.com will no longer…

Latest scientific results from SPECS NAP-XPS systems in South Korea

In 2014, SPECS engineers have installed an integrated UHV system connecting the first Korean NAP-XPS with STM,…

ProvenX (Proven eXperience) system series

The ProvenX system series represents the quintessence of our extensive knowledge in developing and manufacturing…

Successful Installation of First SPECS Momentum Microscopy System

Momentum Microscopy is an emergent application in the field of photoemission spectroscopy. It is especially…

Ganymed UHV Sample Manipulator Series

The SPECS Ganymed series is a powerful and reliable group of UHV sample manipulators, designed for accuracy and…

FlexProbe System

The latest addition to the SPECS system portfolio, the FlexProbe system, combines micro-probe XPS with HAXPES…

Your local contact in India

Quantum Design India, a provider of after sales support and direct sales for Quantum Design and our partner…

AP-XPS investigations of a commercial lithium-based electrolyte

In this note we present first AP-XPS results from a commercial liquid electrolyte for lithium ion battery…

Independent scan piezo voltage limits for different calibrations

Base package BP5e – The option to create different sets of calibration settings for the scan piezo has always…

Improved cloud mode spectroscopy

Base package BP5e – The cloud spectroscopy mode was originally designed to handle a relatively small number of…

Remote control of most Femto preamplifiers added to the Nanonis Tramea software

Tramea base configuration – In parallel to the introduction of the Nanonis MCVA5 multichannel voltage…

MCVA5 Ultra high impedance, low noise preamplifier available for preorder

The new Nanonis MCVA5 preamplifier is designed as the ideal frontend to the Nanonis TSC and SC5 when measuring…

Improved synchronization of external instruments during scanning

Base package BP5e – The Nanonis software already offered the possibility to generate a trigger signal at the…

Improved handling of piezo stacks with asymmetric voltages

Base package BP5e – Piezo tubes are likely the most common fine positioning method for “standard” SPM…

INAM Podcast

INAM is talking to scientists and entrepreneurs who have taken their ideas out of the lab and turned them into…

New ARPES electron analyzer from SPECS: ASTRAIOS 190 2D-CMOS

SPECS has launched a completely new cutting-edge analyzer concept for ARPES in spring 2019. Find details and…

SPECS-TII – a developing international network

About two years ago SPECSGROUP in Germany and Tokyo Instruments (TII) in Tokyo, with the well-known brand…

Your local contact in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

With Vakuum Servis s.r.o., a company based in the Czech Republic, we have found a reliable local partner with…

New NAP-XPS system installed at University of Paderborn

The newly installed multimethod NAP-XPS system combines different analytical techniques for ultimate flexibility…

New Product µFOCUS 195 (NAP)

The new μFOCUS 195 X-ray source - the latest addition to the SPECS GmbH X-ray sources portfolio – opens the…

EnviroESCA system with high temperature (HT-NAP) sample environment and sample explorer

The new SPECS EnviroESCA system with high temperature (HT-NAP) sample environment and sample explorer has been…

Nanonis Mimea Multiprobe Control System: A scalable and cost effective solution for multiprobe-SPM

No tradeoff between usability and scalability Multiprobe systems typically have between 2 and 5 probes and the…

The Carl Ramsauer Prize of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin

Carl Ramsauer (1879-1955), who discovered the Ramsauer-Townsend Effect, describing the extreme permeability of…

First Integration of KREIOS 150 MM 2D-CMOS Momentum Microscope with HESTIA ULT 6 Sample Stage Into the FlexMM Vacuum System.

We are proud to announce, that for the first time we have integrated the state-of-the-art momentum microscope…

Exciting New Features in SpecsLab Prodigy

Now available: K-Space Transformation, Photon Energy Scanning and new Analysis Tools for ISQAR. Please find…

SPECSGROUP Science Mug 2020 update

Are you looking for an alternative way to publish your data? Maybe on our new SPECSGROUP Science Mugs? If yes,…

The tension is rising...

...as the AVS 66 in Columbus, Ohio is approaching and by this also the launch of a new product in the field of…

EnviroESCA demonstrates its unique strengths in routine operando analysis on solid/liquid interfaces

Over the last two years EnviroESCA demonstrated its unique capabilities in performing reliable routine surface…

New architecture for a Quantum Information Processor studied using Nanonis Tramea

Researchers from the Advanced Device Laboratory at RIKEN and the University in Tokyo in Japan in collaboration…

Congratulations to Miquel Salmeron

Miquel Salmeron, Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor of…

New NAP-XPS System Installation

A new NAP-XPS endstation located at BESSY II synchrotron has been installed and is now in operation. The system…

SPECSGROUP Science Cup 2020

Are you looking for an alternative way to publish your data? Maybe on the back of our new SPECSGROUP Science…

New demonstrations show the potential of near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is the most widely used method for chemically analyzing surfaces. XPS…

Introduction to near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy characterization of various materials

Near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Bovine serum albumin, aqueous solution, by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Polytetrafluoroethylene, by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure–x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Carbon dioxide gas, CO2(g), by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Argon gas, by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure–x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Water vapor, by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Nitrogen gas (N2), by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Calcite (CaCO3), by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Oxygen gas, O2(g), by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Dimethyl sulfoxide by near-ambient pressure XPS

Near-ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) is a less traditional form of XPS that allows…

Additive Manufacturing

We are pleased to now offer a wide range of services around additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D…

Hard Italian cheese, by near-ambient pressure XPS

In this submission, we show survey, O 1s, and C 1s near ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy…

EnviroESCA - XPS surface studies of bacteria and biofilms under near ambient pressure conditions

In Europe, antimicrobial resistance is responsible for approximately 25 000 deaths a year with estimated annual…

Product Launch Mimea BP5e

With over 400 units in operation, the Nanonis SPM Control System base package 5 is the result-producing…

Product Launch ASTRAIOS 150

The ASTRAIOS 150 is a revolutionary ARPES analyzer for 2D momentum mapping. It is based on a direct k-mapping…

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