Completion of the Acquisition of WITec

Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high-technology solutions, information and services for industry and research is pleased to confirm the completion of the acquisition of WITec Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Technologie GmbH and all its Group companies, following regulatory approval from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) in Germany and satisfaction of... Read more

WITec alpha300 [i]apyron[/i] wins 2021 Microscopy Today Innovation Award

The fully automated Raman microscope is deemed one of the year’s best developments. Ulm, Germany August 2, 2021 WITec GmbH, the prime mover of technological advance in commercial Raman microscopes, has received a 2021 Microscopy Today Innovation Award for its alpha300 apyron fully automated Raman imaging system. It was selected by the editors of Microscopy Today... Read more

WITec and attocube launch cryoRaman

Technology leaders combine expertise for very low-temperature Raman imaging Ulm, Germany – Haar, Germany July 20, 2021 Raman imaging innovator WITec GmbH and cryogenic microscopy specialist attocube systems AG have jointly introduced cryoRaman. This cryogenic Raman imaging system integrates attocube’s leading-edge cryostat and nanopositioner technology with the vaunted sensitivity and modularity of WITec’s alpha300 correlative... Read more

Acquisition of WITec GmbH

16 June 2021 Oxford Instruments plc (“the Group”), a leading provider of high-technology solutions, information and services for industry and research, today announces the acquisition of WITec Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Technologie GmbH, a leading provider of Raman microscopy imaging solutions, based in Ulm, Germany, for a cash-free, debt-free consideration of €42m, of which €5m is... Read more

WITec Paper Award 2021 recognizes three outstanding publications

Ulm, Germany  May 6, 2021 Three scientific publications have been recognized by the WITec Paper Award, an annual competition among peer-reviewed articles from the previous year that feature results acquired with a WITec microscope. The exceptional quality of the 115 submitted publications made it particularly challenging to select only three winners. The Paper Awards for... Read more

WITec ParticleScout™ Enhanced with New Features

The cutting edge of Raman-based microparticle characterization gets even sharper Ulm, Germany  February 1, 2021 WITec GmbH, the pace-setting leader in Raman microscope technology, has enhanced its ParticleScout automated particle analysis tool to offer even greater speed and versatility for finding, classifying and identifying microparticles.  ParticleScout now includes integration time optimization that uses the signal... Read more

alpha300 [i]apyron[/i] nominated for Best New Spectroscopy Product of 2020

WITec’s alpha300 apyron fully automated Raman microscope has been recognized by the SelectScience Scientists’ Choice Awards with a nomination in the category of “Best New Spectroscopy Product of 2020”. We’re very grateful to be in the running for this award, and sincerely appreciate the support that our customers have expressed for our most advanced microscope... Read more

WITec supports Albert Einstein Discovery Center with 5,000 Euros

This year, instead of sending Christmas presents to its customers, WITec GmbH is donating 5,000 Euros to the Albert Einstein Discovery Center Association. “As a manufacturer of microscopy systems from Ulm, and through our close connection to physics, it is especially important to us to help make the Albert Einstein Discovery Center a reality,” emphasized Dr.... Read more

WITec in Japan and the Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan, cooperate to analyze microplastics (< 20 µm)

WITec GmbH, the German manufacturer of high-performance Raman, AFM, SNOM, and correlative nano-analytical microscopy systems, announces a new cooperation in Japan for particle analysis. Dr. Yutaka Kameda, Associate Professor at the Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT) in Japan, and his team have been working very successfully for several years on the analysis of microplastics in... Read more