TESCAN
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TESCAN, a.s. is a Czech Republic
company which was founded in 1991 by several R&D and service engineers from a former and now non existing company, Tesla Brno
. Its headquarters is located in Brno
, Czech Republic, moreover Brno is considered as traditional city where electron microscopy was and now still is located.
TESCAN's line of products is mainly focused on scanning electron microscopes from a wide range of thermal emission systems, LaB6 systems, and field emission systems to dual beam systems.
and Czech Academy of Science - department Institute of Scientific Instruments Brno - ISI Brno in brief. With cooperation of ISI Brno Tesla Brno was developing and manufacturing electron microscopes in communism era of Czechosovakia. The of the first very successful model was microscope Tesla BS 242 which won the Gold Medal at EXPO 1958. Over 3000 of various models were produced over a period of 30 years and exported to 20 countries. The Tesla split into many small companies after the Velvet Revolution
. Many of those companies still had their business in the electron microscopy field. One of these company was TESCAN which was established by 6 R&D and service engineers from the Tesla. The name TESCAN is derived from the words TESla and SCANning - TESCAN.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
company which was founded in 1991 by several R&D and service engineers from a former and now non existing company, Tesla Brno
Tesla (company)
TESLA was a large, state-owned electrotechnical conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia....
. Its headquarters is located in Brno
Brno
Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...
, Czech Republic, moreover Brno is considered as traditional city where electron microscopy was and now still is located.
TESCAN's line of products is mainly focused on scanning electron microscopes from a wide range of thermal emission systems, LaB6 systems, and field emission systems to dual beam systems.
History
The history of TESCAN is closely connected with the company Tesla BrnoTesla (company)
TESLA was a large, state-owned electrotechnical conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia....
and Czech Academy of Science - department Institute of Scientific Instruments Brno - ISI Brno in brief. With cooperation of ISI Brno Tesla Brno was developing and manufacturing electron microscopes in communism era of Czechosovakia. The of the first very successful model was microscope Tesla BS 242 which won the Gold Medal at EXPO 1958. Over 3000 of various models were produced over a period of 30 years and exported to 20 countries. The Tesla split into many small companies after the Velvet Revolution
Velvet Revolution
The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that took place from November 17 – December 29, 1989...
. Many of those companies still had their business in the electron microscopy field. One of these company was TESCAN which was established by 6 R&D and service engineers from the Tesla. The name TESCAN is derived from the words TESla and SCANning - TESCAN.
Locations
TESCAN maintains their research and development center in Brno, Czech Republic. It has got sales and service subsidiaries in China and the USA. It has worldwide sales and service distributors in more than 50 countries around the world.Competitors
- AspexAspexAspex Corporation, originally founded in 1992, is a supplier of electron microscopy tools to researchers, developers and manufacturers working on Process control through automated Scanning Electron Microscope and Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy....
Corporation - FEI CompanyFEI CompanyFEI Company , founded in 1971, is an American supplier of electron microscopy tools to researchers, developers and manufacturers working on the nanoscale. Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, the company employs 1,770 people worldwide....
- HitachiHitachi, Ltd.is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
- JEOLJEOLis a manufacturer of electron microscopes and other scientific instruments. Its headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan, with 25 subsidiaries and two associated companies....
, Inc. - Carl Zeiss NTS GmbH
External links
- http://www.tescan.com
- http://www.tescan.de
- Installation of Tescan SEM at Flamant Laboratory in Breda, the Netherlands
- Tescan Scanning Electron Microscopes Appoint Distributor in Ireland and the UK