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Of Needles and Haystacks

Advancing Correlative Studies in Materials Research

Target multiple ROIs

With High Accuracy and Speed

Access regions of interest (ROI) that are hidden under the surface directly, revealing all structural details in a wide range of material types. Whether a hard or soft material, nanoscience, engineering or energy materials, conducting or insulating material: LaserFIB machines your sample at unprecedented speed.

Applications include cross-sections microstructural visualization and image analysis, various TEM sample preparations like extremely large H-bars, batch preparation of pillars e.g. titanium alloy for micromechanical testing or atom probe tomgraphy samples.

A LaserFIB, a combination of a ZEISS FIB-SEM and laser, enables you to localize ROIs in 3D, access deeply buried structures, ablate or process large volumes in a dedicated laser chamber, finalize preparation with the gallium beam of the FIB and do 3D imaging and analytics. Add a femtosecond laser to your ZEISS Crossbeam and benefit from ultrafast sample preparation.

Explore the technology behind in this Technical Note

Massive Material Removal

Automatically Access Deeply Buried Structures

Automated shuttling and laser processing in a separate chamber lets you save time and increase throughput, whilst scripting enables automated workflow creation, boosting efficiency in your experiments.

Thanks to the ultrashort pulse duration of the femtosecond laser, LaserFIB reaches highest removal rates of up to 15 mio. µm³ per second. These high ablation rates are ideal to prepare samples for further FIB machining with ZEISS Crossbeam, complementing LaserFIB with the highest precision at an even smaller scale (few nm – few 10 µm).

Watch the full LaserFIB Workflow Video

Discover Automation, Enhanced Throughput and Correlation

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Result without Cross jet
Result using Cross jet

Execute Long-Term Automated Workflows

Ablate volumes of 10x10x10 mm3 without interruption

Perform laser processing in a dedicated chamber integrated to your LaserFIB and combine it with a tool that extends runtimes, enables consistent laser power and maintains ablation rates.

The new cross-jet, a gas flow of either nitrogen or argon, prevents ablated material to deposit on the protective glass under. This enables working for more than 8 hours continuously.

Learn more in a detailed webinar
This image shows the step with the cross-jet activated and the materials redepositon around the trench, in the next step this will be cleaned.
Laser milled trench in silicon using the cross-jet and a final laser cleaning step. This enables reliable and clean prepation especially in batch processing as it takes off redosited material eventually.
The image to the left shows a silicon sample after the preparation with the cross-jet activated and the material redeposition around the trench. The right image shows the surface of the sample after the cleaning scan with the laser.

Prepare FIB-SEM Ready Structures

Polish and clean surfaces using the fs laser

Automatically polish and clean laser-cut surfaces using pre-installed recipes for various materials such as silicon or steel. Clean the surface of your sample of ablated debris with the laser beam. Transfer the sample automatically into the FIB-SEM chamber for further analytics.

Use the new Burst Mode to further increase ablation rates.

Learn more in a detailed webinar

Learn more in 3 short presentations

and discover a workflow connecting XRM and LaserFIB, providing powerful, precise sample preparation

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Explore what the presentations will be about

Discover Advancing Correlative Studies in Materials Research Including Innovations in AI-Driven X-Ray & Laserfib 3D Microscopy

  • Finding the Needle in a Haystack

    From integrated materials engineering of microelectronics components and deformation in advanced alloys and composites to pore transport and ionic mobility in lithium-ion batteries or other energy materials, many problems in materials science can only be fully understood in 3D. The main thrust of materials science is to connect macroscale material properties with specific micro- and nanoscale structures. In this light, it has long been the goal of materials researchers across a wide range of application areas to identify and analyze critical nanoscale features buried deep within bulk samples.
      

  • Advancing Correlative Studies in Materials Research

    In three presentations, you will learn how exciting innovations in 3D X-ray, LaserFIB and AI-driven microscopy can advance your materials research studies. Integrating a femtosecond laser with FIB-SEM (LaserFIB) provides powerful, precise sample preparation. Correlative X-ray microscopy enables intentional sample site selection for representativeness of the chosen site. Coupling Deep Learning algorithms with X-ray microscopy enhances XRM image quality all-round, keeping the context of the field of view and achieving higher resolution for the details while offering improved automation, precision, repeatability, and speed, letting you work in minutes rather than hours.

  • Prepare FIB-SEM Ready Structures

    With High Accuracy and Speed

    Learn how to  access regions of interest (ROI) that are hidden under the surface directly, revealing all structural details in a wide range of material types. Whether a hard or soft material, nanoscience, engineering or energy materials, conducting or insulating material: LaserFIB machines your sample at unprecedented speed.

  • Discover the just recently unveiled
    ZEISS Xradia Versa 630

    and the new features its coming with

    The newest addition to the Versa family breaks resolution performance barriers, delivers an intuitive user experience, and accelerates productivity for all with easy, guided workflows and higher throughput. Discover the game-changing AI for reconstruction, announced as a new feature to the X-ray Microscope for academic and industrial use. Explore an unprecedented range of samples in the fields of materials science, battery research, advanced electronics, life science and many more.

Speaker Dr. Stephen Kelly Market Sector Manager, Energy Materials - ZEISS Microscopy

Stephen Kelly, Ph.D., is the Market Sector Manager for Energy Materials at ZEISS RMS. He has been working in the energy materials space for over 20 years and has extensive experience with materials characterization and fabrication across the energy materials space. He has been with ZEISS RMS since 2014.

Speaker Dr. Olena Vertsanova Market Sector Manager, Nanoscience and Nanomaterials – ZEISS Microscopy

Olena Vertsanova, Ph.D., is the Market Sector Manager for Nanoscience and Nanomaterials at ZEISS RMS since September 2022. After her Ph.D. in Solid-Sate Electronics in 2001 from the National Technical University of Ukraine (NTUU KPI) she has been working as Associate Professor at the Department of Micro- and Nanoelectronics of NTUU KPI. Her research interests were electron and photoacoustic microscopy, non-destructive testing, defects characterization, advanced semiconductor and new materials for nanoelectronics.

Speaker Dr. Hrishikesh Bale Market Sector Manager, Engineering Materials - ZEISS Microscopy

Hrishikesh Bale, Ph.D., is the Market Sector Manager for Engineering Materials at ZEISS RMS. He specializes in applications development for laboratory 3D X-ray imaging techniques. His research focus lies in 3D diffraction contrast tomography and in situ micro- and nano-mechanical testing using X-ray computed tomography. He has a strong background in materials science and mechanical engineering, with over a decade of experience in synchrotron X-ray microscopy and tomography.

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