News › ZEISS • New Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence Sam­ple Fin­der redu­ces time to expe­ri­ment significantly

ZEISS pres­ents the new AI Sam­ple Fin­der for opti­mal user gui­dance and operation

ZEISS pres­ents the new AI Sam­ple Fin­der for opti­mal user gui­dance and ope­ra­tion. With this fea­ture, the open and fle­xi­ble inver­ted micro­scope plat­form ZEISS Axio Obser­ver makes sam­ple pla­ce­ment easier than ever and signi­fi­cantly redu­ces the time to expe­ri­ment. For rese­ar­chers, it offers a com­ple­tely dif­fe­rent way to ope­rate a micro­scope, greatly boos­ting both pro­duc­ti­vity and ease of use. Users are gui­ded more effi­ci­ently and have to per­form fewer manual steps. They can navi­gate more intui­tively and are able to ana­lyze more samples on the carrier.

AI Sam­ple Fin­der iden­ti­fies the sam­ple car­rier and detects sam­ple areas auto­ma­ti­cally. This acce­le­ra­tes the pro­cess of loca­li­zing a sam­ple, espe­ci­ally when the sam­ple is trans­lu­cent or sim­ply too small to see with the naked eye. After pla­cing the sam­ple on the loa­ding posi­tion, AI Sam­ple Fin­der moves it to the objec­tive. There is no need to move micro­scope parts for sam­ple pla­ce­ment manu­ally. Focus is adjus­ted auto­ma­ti­cally, and a high-con­trast over­view image for fast and con­ve­ni­ent navi­ga­tion is taken within seconds even for very low-con­trast samples. Intel­li­gent rou­ti­nes relia­bly iden­tify the sam­ple car­rier, regard­less of its type. And with its deep lear­ning algo­rithms, AI Sam­ple Fin­der detects even unu­sual regi­ons of interest.

In life sci­ence rese­arch, a good over­view image is the foun­da­tion for a detailed ana­ly­sis to make sure all areas can be navi­ga­ted and acces­sed directly. AI Sam­ple Fin­der eli­mi­na­tes time-con­sum­ing manual adjus­t­ments and redu­ces the time to image from minu­tes to just seconds. It also redu­ces pho­to­to­xi­city because only short illu­mi­na­tion of the sam­ple is neces­sary when per­forming adjus­t­ments and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of rele­vant areas. During the expe­ri­ment, the entire sys­tem can be con­trol­led remo­tely for hig­hest flexibility.

New Access­ories for Impro­ved Opti­cal Sec­tio­ning and Effi­ci­ent Illumination

When ima­ging big spe­ci­mens, out-of-focus light often blurs the image, ther­eby redu­cing con­trast and reso­lu­tion. With ZEISS Apo­tome 3, remo­ving out-of-focus light beco­mes simple and effi­ci­ent. It comes with three grids for struc­tu­red illu­mi­na­tion and crea­tes crisp opti­cal sec­tions of fluo­re­s­cent samples free of scat­te­red light. Auto­ma­ti­cally reco­gni­zing the magni­fi­ca­tion, the ideal grid is moved into the beam path, always resul­ting in the best image qua­lity. The peer-reviewed algo­rithms yield arti­fact-free images even allo­wing the quan­ti­fi­ca­tion of inten­si­ties. ZEISS Apo­tome 3 signi­fi­cantly increa­ses the axial reso­lu­tion com­pared to con­ven­tio­nal fluo­re­s­cence and adds opti­cal sec­tio­ning capa­bi­li­ties to your wide­field micro­scope for 3D ren­de­ring, even from thick specimens.

A new light source, the Excite Xylis LED is now inte­gra­ted into the ZEISS micro­scopy envi­ron­ment. This effec­tive illu­mi­na­tion solu­tion pro­vi­des a high and repro­du­ci­ble light out­put over its entire life span wit­hout war­mup times. With its broad emis­sion spec­trum, dyes from UV to far red can be exci­ted for hig­hest spec­tral fle­xi­bi­lity. It is mer­cury-free and com­plies to latest RoHS stan­dards. Long-las­ting LEDs have resul­ted in chan­ging light bulbs beco­ming obso­lete and have led to lower run­ning costs and posi­tive out­co­mes for the environment.

About ZEISS

ZEISS is an inter­na­tio­nally lea­ding tech­no­logy enter­prise ope­ra­ting in the fields of optics and opto­elec­tro­nics. In the pre­vious fis­cal year, the ZEISS Group gene­ra­ted annual reve­nue tota­ling more than 6.4 bil­lion euros in its four seg­ments Semi­con­duc­tor Manu­fac­tu­ring Tech­no­logy, Indus­trial Qua­lity & Rese­arch, Medi­cal Tech­no­logy and Con­su­mer Mar­kets (sta­tus: 30 Sep­tem­ber 2019).

For its cus­to­mers, ZEISS deve­lops, pro­du­ces and dis­tri­bu­tes highly inno­va­tive solu­ti­ons for indus­trial metro­logy and qua­lity assu­rance, micro­scopy solu­ti­ons for the life sci­en­ces and mate­ri­als rese­arch, and medi­cal tech­no­logy solu­ti­ons for dia­gno­stics and tre­at­ment in oph­thal­mo­logy and micro­sur­gery. The name ZEISS is also syn­ony­mous with the world’s lea­ding litho­gra­phy optics, which are used by the chip indus­try to manu­fac­ture semi­con­duc­tor com­pon­ents. There is glo­bal demand for trend­set­ting ZEISS brand pro­ducts such as eye­glass len­ses, camera len­ses and binoculars.

With a port­fo­lio ali­gned with future growth areas like digi­ta­liza­tion, health­care and Smart Pro­duc­tion and a strong brand, ZEISS is sha­ping the future of tech­no­logy and con­stantly advan­cing the world of optics and rela­ted fields with its solu­ti­ons. The company’s signi­fi­cant, sus­tainable invest­ments in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment lay the foun­da­tion for the suc­cess and con­tin­ued expan­sion of ZEISS‹ tech­no­logy and mar­ket leadership.

With over 31,000 employees, ZEISS is active glo­bally in almost 50 count­ries with around 60 sales and ser­vice com­pa­nies, 30 pro­duc­tion sites and 25 deve­lo­p­ment sites. Foun­ded in 1846 in Jena, the com­pany is head­quar­te­red in Ober­ko­chen, Ger­many. The Carl Zeiss Foun­da­tion, one of the lar­gest foun­da­ti­ons in Ger­many com­mit­ted to the pro­mo­tion of sci­ence, is the sole owner of the hol­ding com­pany, Carl Zeiss AG.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion at www.zeiss.com

ZEISS Rese­arch Micro­scopy Solutions

ZEISS Rese­arch Micro­scopy Solu­ti­ons is the world’s only one-stop manu­fac­tu­rer of light, elec­tron, X‑ray and ion micro­scope sys­tems and offers solu­ti­ons for cor­re­la­tive micro­scopy. The port­fo­lio com­pri­ses of pro­ducts and ser­vices for life sci­en­ces, mate­ri­als and indus­trial rese­arch, as well as edu­ca­tion and cli­ni­cal prac­tice. The unit is head­quar­te­red in Jena. Addi­tio­nal pro­duc­tion and deve­lo­p­ment sites are loca­ted in Ober­ko­chen and Munich, as well as in Cam­bridge (UK) and Plea­san­ton (USA). ZEISS Rese­arch Micro­scopy Solu­ti­ons is part of the Indus­trial Qua­lity & Rese­arch segment.

Press cont­act

Vyb­hav Sinha
ZEISS Rese­arch Micro­scopy Solutions
+49 3641 64–3949
moc.ssiez@ahnis.vahbyv