R&D 00 Award for Airyscan: R&D 00 Award 05 for ZEI Airyscan

JENA/Germany, 30.11.2015.

ZEISS Airyscan has been selected by the expert judges and editors of R&D Magazine as a recipient of a R&D 100 Special Recognition Award. The ZEISS exclusive detection technology for confocal laser scanning microscopes (LSM) is regarded as one of only 3 most significant market disruptor products introduced in the past year.

A traditional confocal microscope scans the sample by illuminating one spot at a time to detect the emitted fluorescence signal. Out-of-focus emission light is rejected at a pinhole. Users can increase image resolution by making the pinhole smaller, but the collected signal drops significantly, since less valuable emission light is passing through.

With ZEISS Airyscan, ZEISS introduced a revolutionary new detector concept. ZEISS Airyscan is a 32 element area detector. Each detector element functions as a single, very small pinhole, yet the overall assembly covers the area of a large pinhole. Knowing the spatial distribution of each of the 32 detectors results in improved resolution and signal-to-noise. The Airyscan detector is available for ZEISS LSM 8 microscope systems and as an upgrade for ZEISS LSM 710 and ZEISS LSM 780 confocal microscopes.

With the Airyscan detector ZEISS dramatically raises the performance level of confocal microscopes and pushes the limits when working with light sensitive samples says Dr. Bernhard Zimmermann, Head of Life Sciences at ZEISS Microscopy business group. We are particularly proud to be recognized for disrupting the traditional confocal market with our LSM 8 product family, since ZEISS always strives to provide truly innovative solutions for this important and widely used research technology.

The annual R&D 100 Awards celebrate the years top technology products in the fields of new materials, chemical research, biomedical products and high-energy physics. The winners come from the areas of industry, science, private research institutes and government laboratories. Since 2002, ZEISS has consistently received one of the renowned awards every year, most recently for the light-sheet fluorescence microscope system ZEISS Lightsheet Z.1 and 3D superresolution microscopy with ZEISS ELYRA PS.1.

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ZEISS LSM 880 with Airyscan

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The Airyscan Principle

Dr. Jochen Tham

Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH

Phone: +49 3641 64-3949

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jochen.tham@zeiss.com

About ZEISS

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the optics and optoelectronics industries. ZEISS develops and distributes lithography optics, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetarium technology. With its solutions, the company constantly advances the world of optics and helps shape technological progress. The company is divided up into the six business groups Industrial Metrology, Microscopy, Medical Technology, Vision Care, Consumer Optics and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology. ZEISS is represented in over 40 countries with around 30 production sites, over 50 sales and service locations and about 25 research and development facilities.

In fiscal year 2013/14 the company generated revenue approximating 4.3 billion euros with just under 25,000 employees. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. Carl Zeiss AG is the strategic management holding company that manages the ZEISS Group. The company is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).

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Microscopy

The Microscopy business group is the worlds only one-stop manufacturer of light, X-ray and electron microscope systems. The portfolio includes solutions and services both for life sciences and materials research and for industry, education and clinical practice. The business group is headquartered in Jena. Additional production and development sites are located in Oberkochen, G ttingen and Munich in Germany, as well as in Cambridge in the UK, and in Peabody, MA and Pleasanton, CA in the USA. The business group employs a total of over 3,000 people. It generated revenue of 656 million euros in fiscal year 2013/14.

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