Cameca
Cameca is a French manufacturer of measuring devices, especially secondary ion mass spectrometers and microprobes .
history
The company was founded in 1929 as a division of the Compagnie générale de la télégraphie sans fil (CSF) for the manufacture of film projectors . After the Second World War, Cameca began producing scientific measuring instruments for French universities under the leadership of Maurice Ponte. Microprobes were manufactured from 1958 , and secondary ion mass spectrometers since 1968 .
From the early 1950s onwards, production took place in Courbevoie .
The name Compagnie des Applications Mécaniques et Electroniques au Cinéma et à l'Atomistique (Cameca) led the company from 1954. The film projector business ended in the 1960s , with a brief interruption from the Scopitone . From 1977, with the development of the IMS3F, Cameca was practically a monopoly on secondary ion mass spectrometers (SIMS). However , it had to share the business with micro-probes with Japanese competitors ( JEOL ). Towards the end of the 1990s, Cameca gained a third pillar with atomographic tomographic probes .
In 1987 Cameca left the Thomson CSF group through a management buyout . In 2001 the company was sold to a financial investor and later ended up with the Carlyle Group , which then sold the company to Ametek in 2010 .
Areas of application
Cameca devices are particularly popular in geochemistry , but also in other research areas. Because of their central importance, Cameca devices have a strong presence in the scientific literature.
literature
- Jean-Charles Scagnetti: L'aventure scopitone (1957–1983) , Paris, Editions Autrement, Coll. Mémoires / Culture, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7467-1396-3 , pp. 10-17 and pp. 27-45
- Emmanuel de Chambost: A History of CAMECA (1954-2009) , in Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics , Vol. 167, 2011, ISBN 978-0-12-385985-3 , pp. 1-119
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See, for example, Camera on scholar.google.com