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Nanoindentation on the MRS Bulletin cover! 🎉 Excited to share that mechanical microscopy is featured on the cover of the latest Materials Research Society Bulletin, spotlighting advances in high-speed nanoindentation mapping! Nanoindentation has come a long way: from a precise, point-based technique to a powerful scanning method capable of generating over 200,000 indents in just a few hours. 🔎 Want to dive deeper? Explore the future of nanoindentation testing on our website. 👉 Discover mechanical microscopy at: https://lnkd.in/exB8B9xJ #MaterialsScience #Nanoindentation #Metals #Metallurgy #MRS

Global service just got stronger! 🌍🚀 We're excited to welcome Manish Kumar (Oxford Instruments Americas) and Rie Nakajima (Oxford Instruments Japan) to the Oxford Instruments nanoindentation line—boosting our worldwide capacity in service and application support. Following three weeks of intense on-site training in Zurich, they've quickly become skilled experts in our nanoindentation product line—ready to deliver the exceptional support our customers expect and deserve. Their passion and dedication reflect our commitment to continuous learning and global collaboration. Welcome aboard, Manish and Rie! 🙌 👉 Collaborate with global experts—reach out anytime at: https://lnkd.in/exB8B9xJ #MaterialsScience #Nanoindentation #Metals #Metallurgy

Connecting with the Thin Film Community at ICMCTF 2025!🤝 Excitement was high at ICMCTF 2025—the 51st International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films. This year’s program spotlighted sustainable materials, processes, and applications, and we were thrilled to be part of it! A big thank you to everyone who visited us at Booth 209. It was great to showcase the new iX05 nanoindenter and demonstrate its capabilities live—measuring local mechanical properties under real-world conditions like high/low temperatures and variable strain rates. We’d also like to extend our sincere thanks to the organisers for putting together such a well-run and engaging event! 🔎 Didn’t make it to the live demo? You can still see how the iX05 delivers fast, quantitative mechanical data at up to 30 indents per second—helping advance your thin film research. Check out the brochure below to learn more. 👉 Take a closer look at the iX05 at: https://lnkd.in/efA4YiuA #ICMCTF2025 #Nanoindentation #ThinFilms #SurfaceEngineering #MaterialsScience #Coatings

Are you attending EMAS 2025 – the 18th European Workshop on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis? 👋   Be sure to catch Jeff Wheeler’s invited talk on Thursday, 15 May 2025, at 11:30 AM at the TecnoCampus in Mataró (Barcelona), Spain. He’ll be discussing the combined use of nanoindentation mapping and EBSD/EDS to correlate mechanical properties with crystal orientation and composition in metallic materials. 🔎 Can’t make it? Download our latest application note on the topic here: 👉Discover correlated mechanical microscopy at: https://lnkd.in/egHRm8YC   #EMAS2025 #Nanoindentation #EBSD #MaterialsScience #Microscopy #MicrobeamAnalysis #MechanicalMicroscopy

Thank You for an Incredible TMS2025! 🙌 As TMS2025 in Las Vegas comes to a close, we want to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by our booth, engaged in insightful discussions, and experienced the power of the iX05 operando nanoindenter in action — alongside the full Oxford Instruments material analysis lineup, including our EDS and EBSD detectors, Raman spectroscopy, and AFM solutions. A special thanks to TMS – The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society for organizing such a fantastic event! 🔎 If you didn’t get a chance to visit us, you can still explore our latest technology: 👉 Download the iX05 brochure at: https://lnkd.in/eM8dag9Y See you at the next event! #MaterialsScience #Nanoindentation #TMSAnnualMeeting #TMS #TMS2025 #Metals #Metallurgy #FemtoTools #OxfordInstruments

3D Mapping of Mechanical Anisotropy in Duplex Brass 🗺️ Understanding the relationship between mechanical properties and crystallographic texture is key to understand the anisotropic behavior of metals. With correlated mechanical microscopy, combining nanoindentation and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), it is possible to extract orientation-property relationships—the fingerprint of a material’s plastic and elastic anisotropy. In this example, a rolled duplex brass sample was analyzed using correlative mechanical microscopy to investigate how mechanical properties vary with deformation texture. By mapping both phases within the microstructure, it is possible to observe how the declination angle dictated the resulting mechanical response, providing a deeper understanding of material behavior at the microscale. In the image: Pseudo-cubes of correlated mechanical properties obtained by nanoindentation, combined with crystallographic and phase information from EBSD, for non-adjacent, orthogonal orientations of the duplex brass. 🔎 Want to learn more? Join our colleague Jeff Wheeler at TMS2025 - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society - today 3/26/2025, at 8:35 AM in Room 310 (Additive Manufacturing Track), where he’ll discuss ‘Multi-Scale Mechanical Microscopy Using High-speed Nanoindentation’, or download the iX05 brochure at the link below: 👉 Learn more about the iX05 at: https://lnkd.in/efA4YiuA #MaterialsScience #Nanoindentation #TMSAnnualMeeting #TMS #TMS2025 #Metals #Metallurgy #FemtoTools #OxfordInstruments 

Live from TMS2025 in Las Vegas!👋 We’re super-excited to be at TMS2025! This conference, organized by TMS - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, brings together more than 4’000 scientists, business leaders, engineers, and other professionals in the materials field for an outstanding exchange of technical knowledge leading to solutions in the workplace and in society.  Visit us at Booth 404 to discover the new iX05—not just a nanoindenter, but a high-vacuum mechanical microscope revolutionizing nanoindentation. With ultra-fast operation at extreme temperatures (-150°C to 800°C), ultra-fast electronics, and MEMS-based sensing technology, the iX05 sets a new benchmark for precision and performance in nanoindentation. 🔎 See it in action! Experience ultra-fast nanoindentation at 30 indents per second —with uncompromised accuracy— live from the conference floor. Visit us at Booth 404 or download the iX05 product brochure. 👉 Learn more about the iX05 at: https://lnkd.in/eUtaaaMM #MaterialsScience #Nanoindentation #TMSAnnualMeeting #TMS #TMS2025 #Metals #Metallurgy #FemtoTools #OxfordInstruments

Bringing Material Testing to Real-World Conditions 🌡️ Materials in engineering applications don’t operate just at room temperature—they face extreme environments, from cryogenic conditions to high-temperature exposure. Understanding their mechanical behavior under actual service conditions is crucial for ensuring performance and reliability. With ultra-high-speed, displacement-controlled nanoindentation, the iX05 nanoindenter enables mechanical property mapping between -150°C and 800°C. Thanks to its integrated vacuum chamber, it prevents oxidation while the MEMS-based nanoindentation technology and ultra-fast control electronic allows for unprecedented speed and precision of measurements. In the image: A mechanical microscopy map of a Ni-Mo diffusion couple tested at temperatures up to 500°C, revealing not only different phases but also the effect of elemental interdiffusion. 🔎 Want to learn more? Join our colleague Jeff Wheeler at TMS2025 - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society - tomorrow, 3/25/2025, at 10:10 AM in Room 366 (Mechanics of Materials Track), where he’ll discuss ‘Operando, Correlated Mechanical Microscopy of the Ni—Mo System’, or download the iX05 brochure at the link below: 👉 Learn more about the iX05 at: https://lnkd.in/efA4YiuA #MaterialsScience #Nanoindentation #TMSAnnualMeeting #TMS #TMS2025 #Metals #Metallurgy #FemtoTools #OxfordInstruments 

Are you attending the TMS2025 - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society Annual Meeting? 👋 We can not wait to meet you there! This year is extra special for us because it’s our first TMS Annual Meeting as part of Oxford Instruments. Visit us at Booth 404, where you’ll find our nanoindentation line, alongside other Oxford Instruments materials testing equipment: from EDS and EBSD detectors to Raman and AFMs. 🔎Come and see live demos of the iX05—our most recent nanoindenter—allowing quantitative, ultra-fast nanoindentation mapping in operando conditions, performing 30 indents per second live on the conference floor! 👉 Learn more about the iX05 at: https://lnkd.in/ez8fa-nW #MaterialsScience #Nanoindentation #TMSAnnualMeeting #TMS #TMS2025 #Metals #Metallurgy #FemtoTools #OxfordInstruments

Large mechanical property mapping was time-consuming… until we changed the game! 🕒 Nanoindentation has come a long way in the last decade—evolving from simply probing local mechanical properties at a point to mapping material properties over large areas. This technique, known as mechanical microscopy, enables the exploration of local mechanical properties and gradients within microstructures, providing deeper insights into a material’s macroscopic behavior. However, the speed of large indentation mapping has been a limiting factor in the widespread adoption of this technique. Not anymore! With a completely redesigned electronic system (featuring a 2 MHz sampling rate and 500 kHz feedback loop frequency), the iX05 enables large nanoindentation maps at up to 30 indents per second, setting a new industry standard for measuring and visualizing mechanical properties across a wide range of testing conditions. In the image, a sample of cast iron was imaged with mechanical microscopy at 500 nm lateral resolution, with 60’000 indents performed in 33 minutes, highlighting the characteristic dendritic carbide structure. 🔎 See the iX05 in action! Join us at the Oxford Instruments booth (#404) at TMS2025 - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, March 23–27, Las Vegas, and experience live demonstrations and discover how the iX05 is revolutionizing mechanical property measurements. 👉 Learn more about the iX05 at: https://lnkd.in/e8YPMBed #MaterialsScience #Nanoindentation #TMSAnnualMeeting #TMS #TMS2025 #Metals #Metallurgy #FemtoTools #OxfordInstruments