Scienta Omicron

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Scienta Omicron
legal form GmbH
founding 1984
Seat Taunusstein - Neuhof
management Norbert Nold (until 2011), Johan Åman (since 2015)
Number of employees around 120 in Taunusstein (January 2017)
sales 65 million euros (2015)
Branch nanotechnology
Website www.scientaomicron.com

The Scienta Omicron GmbH (formerly Omicron Vakuumphysik GmbH, then Omicron Nanotechnology GmbH) is a medium-sized company that sells equipment for nanotechnology and surface physics establishes. The company, based in Taunusstein - Neuhof in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse, is represented worldwide through partners and subsidiaries and belongs to the Swedish Scienta Scientific Group.

Companies

Omicron is the world market leader for analysis methods in surface physics such as atomic force (AFM), tunnel (STM), electron microscopes (SEM), LEED and electron spectroscopy as well as systems for the production of nanostructures ( thermal evaporation , sputtering ), which are largely individual based on a platform strategy be developed for the customer. The different methods (for example AFM and STM) can definitely be combined in one device. Due to the cooperation with research groups, the company has been able to develop some innovative devices, such as an STM for variable temperatures from 4 to over 1000 Kelvin .

A cooperation between the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the company for the production of quartz crystal mirrors is currently being funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .

history

Historical logo

The company was founded in 1984 by Norbert Nold and Ernst Lang and initially manufactured UHV devices for LEED and from 1987 - the first commercial UHV STM - a scanning tunneling microscope called "STM 1" . A copy of this device is now in the Deutsches Museum. Omicron is a company from the early days of nanotechnology. From the beginning of the 1990s, more and more agencies were added in Europe and overseas, and the product range was expanded to include additional analysis methods, such as AFM or STMs with variable temperature. In 1996 the VT STM received the 1996 R&D 100 Award from the trade journal R&D as one of the "top 100 technology products of the year". In 1999, Omicron was named a " Hidden Champion " by the Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Association of Hessian Business Associations. A year later, the company presented the first MBE system with integrated analysis options. In 2007 the NanoESCA system and in 2013 the LT Nanoprobe system received the R&D 100 Award .

From mid-2011 to mid-2015, the company was part of the British group of companies, Oxford Instruments plc. In May 2015, the merger with the Swedish company VG Scienta resulted in the new Scienta Omicron company group with headquarters in Taunusstein (Germany) and Uppsala in Sweden.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wiesbadener Kurier dated June 30, 2015: Research focus: FUSION - Omicron Nanotechnology from Taunusstein and Swedish VG Scienta merge
  2. ↑ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 351 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hessen-nanotech.de
  3. ↑ Rentsch: The world market leader for nano-analysis makes the invisible visible , press release of the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Transport and Regional Development from July 5, 2013
  4. ↑ VDE Rhein-Main: Hessen innovativ technical horizon 2015 (PDF; 668 kB)
  5. ↑ Physics-Astronomical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Annual Report 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 106. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.physik.uni-jena.de
  6. ^ Deutsches Museum: Appendix to the 2010 Annual Report - Inventory of exhibits - 310th Physics
  7. ↑ VDI regional study "Nanotechnology in Dresden / Saxony": Section 6.4 Hessen (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  8. ↑ Bharat Bushan: Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology , Springer Verlag Berlin, 2003, p. 333: "AFM / STMs for use in UHV environments are manufactured by Omicron Vakuumphysik, Taunusstein", the only named manufacturer for UHV devices
  9. ↑ VT SPM , scientaomicron website, accessed August 8, 2016
  10. ↑ Hidden Champions ... the 1999 winner
  11. ↑ 2007 R & D 100 Award Winners , rdmag.com from August 31, 2007
  12. ↑ The Heat is On , rdmag.com of October 25, 2013
  13. ↑ Nanowerk.com v.15. June 2011: Oxford Instruments Acquires Omicron NanoTechnology GmbH and Omniprobe, Inc.