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ZEISS Atlas 5

Master Your Multi-scale Challenge

Create comprehensive multi-scale, multi-modal images with a sample-centric correlative environment. Atlas 5 is the powerful yet intuitive solution that extends the capacity of your ZEISS scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and focused ion beam SEMs (FIB-SEM). Efficiently navigate and correlate images from any source, e.g. light- and X-ray microscopes. Its modular structure lets you tailor Atlas 5 for your everyday needs in materials or life sciences research e.g., for nanopatterning or array tomography.

Perform large area imaging with ZEISS SEM, FE-SEM & FIB-SEM
Acquire nanoscale EM images easier and faster than ever before
Correlate images in multiple dimensions from multiple sources
Achieve precision in z when running a 3D Tomography with Thin & Fast Tomography and True-Z
Work in a correlative workspace, the GUI that places the sample at the center of your workflow

Easy-to-use, workflow-oriented GUI for automated imaging.

Acquire EM Images

Easier and Faster than Ever Before

Acquire large sets of 2D or 3D nanoscale electron microscope (EM) images for hours or days, without operator supervision.
Collect single images over thousands of samples, or cover large areas with mosaics comprised of thousands of adjacent images.
Atlas 5 streamlines automatic image acquisition, using advanced preset and customizable protocols to produce consistent and reproducible results.

_{Easy-to-use, workflow-oriented GUI for automated imaging.}

Light microscope and SEM images of an integrated circuit are merged in the Atlas 5 correlative workspace.

Correlate Images

from Multiple Sources

Bring together images from multiple sources. The correlative workspace of Atlas 5 makes it easy. Zoom in from the full macroscopic view of your sample down to nanoscale details.
Efficiently analyze and correlate images from multiple sources. Atlas 5 is your data hub for images from SEM, FIB-SEM, X-ray, light microscopes and any optical images, e.g. from your digital camera.
Build a seamless multi-modal, multi-scale picture of your sample with the sample centric workspace of Atlas 5.

_{Light microscope and SEM images of an integrated circuit are merged in the Atlas 5 correlative workspace.}

Solide oxide electrolysis cell, changes after cycling, 3D tomogram, images & EDS data in 3D, ZEISS FIB-SEM, Atlas Analytics. Sample courtesy of: M. Cantoni, EPFL, CH.

Understand Your Sample

by Creating Unique Workflows

Understand your sample fully, in 2D and 3D with the graphical user interface of Atlas 5.
Design a workflow tailored precisely to the complexity of your experiment, no matter whether it’s a simple one-step task or a compound experiment.
A sophisticated workflow environment guides you from setup for automated acquisition to post processing and customized exports, and right on through to analysis.

_{Solide oxide electrolysis cell, changes after cycling, 3D tomogram, images & EDS data in 3D, ZEISS FIB-SEM, Atlas Analytics. Sample courtesy of: M. Cantoni, EPFL, CH.}

Technology

Maximize Productivity

Combine a 16 bit scan generator and dual super-sampling signal acquisition hardware with image processing and control software.
Acquire images up to 32 k x 32 k pixels on SEMs and up to 40 k x 50 k on FIB-SEMs.
Use dwell times from 100 ns to > 100 s, adjustable in 100 ns increments for image acquisition.
Save your images with 8 or 16 bits of intensity.

Create Large Mosaic Images

Reduce acquisition time and computational complexity by defining your ROI according to its real shape and acquiring a mosaic with a reduced number of tiles.
Reduce stage motion delay and areal fraction of each image “lost” to overlap.
Minimize beam damage and degradation of your sample by optimizing the number of overlap “seams”.

Acquire Images Easier than Ever Before

Define your exact region of interest and scan only the designated areas with predefined imaging protocols.
Profit from reproducible results by developing protocols with ideal imaging conditions.
Keep images sharp during long acquisition times with the help of advanced auto-focus and auto-stigmation tools.
Image your sample whenever and wherever you need: Atlas 5 supports multiple sessions on multiple instruments.
Correlate images in Atlas 5’s sample-centric correlative workspace - bring together 2D images and 3D volume data from multiple instruments.
Import and align data from light, X-ray, electron and FIB-SEM microscopes to produce a single, consistent picture of your sample.

Correlate with X-ray Microscopy to Target Sub-Surface Sites in Your FIB-SEM

Correlate X-ray microscopy volume scans from your ZEISS X-ray microscope with surface features visible in your FIB-SEM.
Use the X-ray data to virtually localize sub-surface features in 3D to the precisely targeted FIB sites - even if they are not visible in situ.
Then navigate to those regions with confidence using your ZEISS FIB-SEM.

Modules

Multiple Offerings

Come with Atlas 5

Get to know Atlas 5, its modules, their features and their configurability. Extend the capacity of your ZEISS SEM and FIB-SEM with Atlas 5 as an option. Benefit from advanced capabilities of further modules and learn how they are combined. Atlas 5 modules require Atlas 5. Optional Analytics Module requires ZEISS Oxford Instruments hardware and software package. The Analytics Module on FIB-SEM requires Atlas 5 3D Tomography.

Array Tomography

Providing Several Tools for Array Tomography Setup

Easily define imaging sites for all sections with the Clone Tool.
Detect the shape of the section automatically with the Snap Section tool.
Manage acquisition sites efficiently and even define sub-sites across sections.
Compile all images into a 3D volume with the image stack export tool and explore them with the image stack viewer.
Benefit from 3D Stack alignment & image corrections.

Polished petrographic thin section, a Peralkaline granite from Northern Quebec.

Enhanced Browser-based Viewer Export Module

You will analyze, present and share results and train colleagues and students:

Export single or multiple datasets to a format that can be viewed in a regular web browser.
Even measurements and annotations are possible.
Create curated slideshows based on the data for presentation purposes and embed additional information like pdf files, images, spectra, movies or audio files.
Let your colleagues, students or peers freely explore the dataset at its best resolution and share the data easily by exchanging flash drives or by hosting it on a server.
The user can follow the slideshow or pause at any time to explore the data on their own.

_{Polished petrographic thin section, a Peralkaline granite from Northern Quebec.}

Automated FIB-SEM Nanotomography: Acquire simultaneous multi-resolution datasets using xROI and Key Frames. Courtesy of: K. Narayan and S. Subramaniam, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

3D Tomography

featuring "Thin & Fast Tomography" and "True-Z"

You will execute tomography in three dimensions:

Use the 3D FIB-SEM acquisition engine with automated sample preparation to achieve precise 3D visualizations.
Measure and precisely control slice thickness during tomography and gain “True-Z” information to process your data accurately.
Ensure an accurate, continuous, homogeneous tomogram of samples sensitive to charging, shrinking or beam damage leveraging the “Thin & Fast Tomography”.
Get to high quality data faster using xROIs (Exact regions of interest), Advanced sample tracking, predictive drift correction and auto-tuning.
Make use of the image stack viewer with 3D FIB-SEM stack alignment and image stack export including cropping.

_{Automated FIB-SEM Nanotomography: Acquire simultaneous multi-resolution datasets using xROI and Key Frames. Courtesy of: K. Narayan and S. Subramaniam, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.}

3D tomography of a multi-layered metal system, a Canadian coin, studied volume: 40 x 40 x 30 μm³ and the voxel size (20 nm)³, EBSD analysis.

Analytics

You will perform analytics in 3D with an integrated module:

Add 3D EDS/3D EBSD analytics to your high resolution FIB-SEM tomography acquisition.
Specify imaging and mapping conditions independently, including landing energy, dwell time and spatial resolution in 3D.
Use the advanced acquisition engine to automatically switch between analysis and imaging conditions during acquisition.
Acquire 3D tomography datasets in a static configuration for even more stable 3D EBSD runs without any stage moves.
Flexible visualization allows you to simultaneously view SEM images and process elemental maps.
Integrate 2D EDS mappings into the workflow on your FE-SEM and automatically acquire multiple regions of interest.

_{3D tomography of a multi-layered metal system, a Canadian coin, studied volume: 40 x 40 x 30 μm³ and the voxel size (20 nm)³, EBSD analysis.}

A FIB grayscale rendering of the Lincoln Memorial is patterned into silicon with the FIB beam. An unmodified photograph was used as the data source. Patterning time: 10 min.

NPVE Advanced

Advanced Nanopatterning & Visualization Engine

You will achieve advanced control over patterning geometry and parameters with NPVE:

Benefit form simultaneous beam control with full patterning and imaging support for ion and electron beams.
Define operation recipes for smart control of the beam and GIS parameters to ensure consistent milling and deposition.
Optimize the design of your experiments with 3D profiles and array builder tools.
Save up to 40% milling time by iIncluding Fastmill, a special scanning strategy that allows you to prepare FIB cross-sections faster and more efficient.

_{A FIB grayscale rendering of the Lincoln Memorial is patterned into silicon with the FIB beam. An unmodified photograph was used as the data source. Patterning time: 10 min.}

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3D EDS on a tomogram of lead-free solder using ZEISS Crossbeam
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EDS and EBSD investigation of a multi layered metal system
Medicago, root nodules. SEM images by Atlas 5 Array Tomography

Sample: courtesy of J. Sherrier, J. Caplan and S. Modla, University of Delaware, US.
Polished petrographic thin section, a Peralkaline granite from Northern Quebec

Sample: courtesy of: A. Gyis, Colorado School of Mines, US.
Blood vessels of rat brain, thick section, SEM images, mosaic

Atlas 5 Array Tomography

Atlas Image Viewer

Discover datasets from Materials and Life Science research, semiconductor or archeology and explore them with the Browser Based Viewer of Atlas 5.

Please click below for the Atlas Image Viewer:

Atlas Image Viewer

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