Applications

What Is Your Application?

Photons add new ways to heat, excite, and collect signals inside the electron microscope. Start with the experiment, then match the Waviks system to the microscope, sample, and signal.

Photon In Laser Heating and Excitation
Photon Out Raman, CL, and PL Spectra
Electron Spectroscopy Stimulated EELS and EEGS
Electrical EBIC From Contacted Samples

Application Routes

Connect Images With Spectra and Sample Response.

Choose what you want to measure or stimulate, then explore the relevant experiments and Waviks systems.

Tabletop SEM, SEM/FIB, S/TEM

In Situ Laser Heating

Heat a selected region, watch the material respond, then move to the next site without treating the whole sample as the furnace.

Explore In Situ Laser Heating

SEM, FIB, PFIB, helium ion platforms

Laser-Assisted Nanofabrication

Use light with beam-based processing for deposition, purification, etching, damage mitigation, and graphene patterning examples.

Explore Laser-Assisted Nanofabrication

Tabletop SEM, SEM/FIB, S/TEM, custom vacuum systems

Optical Excitation

Bring a controlled optical stimulus into the microscope while your instrument and detectors provide the measurement.

Explore Optical Excitation

SEM/FIB, Tabletop SEM, selected S/TEM or custom systems

EBIC and Electrical Characterization

Measure electron-beam-induced current from contacted samples and relate electrical response to image features.

Explore EBIC and Electrical Characterization

Custom vacuum chambers and research instruments

Experiments in Custom Vacuum Systems

Start with the access problem: light in, signal out, motion, electrical path, and Aether-controlled hardware.

Explore Experiments in Custom Vacuum Systems

Published Examples

See What Our Customers Are Doing

Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2018

Photothermal Pathways In TEM

A TEM study of laser-heated Ag-Ni films reported recrystallization, grain growth, phase separation, and dewetting. Thermal simulations helped interpret the observed changes.

DOI: 10.1017/S1431927618015465

ACS Photonics, 2019

Photon-Stimulated EELS/EEGS

A study paired continuous-wave laser excitation with electron spectroscopy to measure energy gain and loss from individual plasmonic nanoparticles under the reported conditions.

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00830

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol., 2017

Laser-Assisted Nanofabrication

A laser-assisted deposition study reported improved conductivity in suspended platinum-carbon nanowires, illustrating how optical stimulation can change deposit properties.

DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.8.83

Which Experiment Are You Trying To Run?

Tell us the instrument, sample, and signal you need. Waviks can tell you whether it runs today, what it needs, and which published examples are closest.

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