Four dimensional X-ray microscope facility

In addition to well-known advantages offered by the ZEISS Xradia Versa series of X-ray microscopes--highest resolution, best contrast, RaaD (resolution at a distance) and non-destructive submicron X-ray imaging--ZEISS Xradia 520 Versa advances lab-based X-ray imaging with breakthrough techniques and innovations:

Dual Scan Contrast Visualizer (DSCoVer)
DSCoVer provides flexible side-by-side tuning of two distinct tomographies at different imaging conditions or sample conditions. This enables compositional probing for features normally indistinguishable in a single scan, enabling you to seamlessly and easily collect the data required for dual energy analysis. Imaging a sample at two different X-ray spectra, or in two different states, aligning the resulting datasets and then combining them assures you will achieve optimum contrast for the material of interest and allow you to establish repeatable research parameters.

DSCoVer takes advantage of how X-rays interact with matter based on effective atomic number and density. This provides you with a unique capability for distinguishing, for example, mineralogical differences within rocks as well as among difficult-to-discern materials such as silicon and aluminum.

High-Aspect Ratio Tomography (HART)
The innovative High Aspect Ratio Tomography (HART) mode on Xradia 520 Versa provides you with higher throughput imaging for flat samples such as those found with semiconductor packages and boards. HART enables you to space variable projections so that you collect fewer projections along the broad side of a flat sample and more along the thin side. A wealth of 3D data is provided by these closely-spaced long views versus less densely-spaced short views.

You can also tune HART to emphasize higher throughput or better image quality, thereby potentially accelerating image acquisition speed by 2X.

Optional In Situ interface kit
X-ray imaging is uniquely suited to image materials under variable environments with controlled conditions including over time (4D) to non-destructively characterize and quantify the evolution of 3D microstructures. With its unique architecture, the Xradia Versa has emerged as the industry's premier solution supporting the use of the widest variety of in situ rigs, from high pressure flow cells to tension, compression and thermal stages. The optional In Situ Interface Kit delivers stable and robust management of often complex in situ electrical and plumbing facilities and ensures Xradia performance is maintained, along with recipe-based software capability that simplifies operation from within the Xradia Versa user interface. The In Situ Interface Kit is available on all Xradia Versa systems.