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Quantum Design Acquires Oxford NanoScience Joining Two Leading Cryogenic Companies  

February 4, 2026 Editorial Staff 0

Quantum Design has acquired the Oxford NanoScience division of Oxford Instruments. Priced at £60m cash which is equivalent to about one year of Oxford Nano’s revenue, the acquisition unites the portfolios and expertise of two industry leaders with a combined legacy of more than 100 years of experience and innovation in cryogenics, materials science, and microscopy. The shared product catalog provides automated materials characterization with automated field and temperature control, ultra-low temperature sub-kelvin cryostats and dilution refrigerators, high-field superconducting magnets and a full range of optical cryostats.
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Magnetic Imaging with SQUID sensitivity by Quantum Design, and New CEO 

February 19, 2025 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Magnetic Imaging with SQUID sensitivity by Quantum Design, and New CEO 

The QDM.IO is the first system on the market which provides large area imaging of the magnetic field distribution using measurement based on nitrogen-vacancy centers implanted in a diamond. Conventional NV center-based microscopes use a single NV center in the tip and scan the sample, however, the heart of this microscope is a chip with many NV centers which can measure a large area simultaneously. The result is nanotesla sensitivity that not only detects the strength but also the local vector of the magnetic field.  […]

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Spin-Ion Stepping Out with System to Engineer Ultra-Thin Magnetic Materials 

November 7, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Spin-Ion Stepping Out with System to Engineer Ultra-Thin Magnetic Materials 

Spin-Ion Technologies, a French developer of advanced ion beam technology to engineer the structural properties of magnetic materials, has linked up with Quantum Design International to distribute the company’s Helium-S system in China, Taiwan, Singapore and the United States. The process solution is based on post-growth Helium + ion irradiation to tailor the magnetic properties of thin magnetic films at the atomic scale and improve their performances. […]