
Youneedhighprecisionforyourtime-lapseexperimentssuchasmarkandfindormulti-wellscreenings?WeknowthateverymicrometercountswhenimagingseveralsamplesatdifferentXYpositions.TheLeicaLMT260XYScanningStagesportsarepeatABIlityof0.25µmforasampleweightbelow0.5kgandstillof1µmforaheavyloadof1.5kg–allthisataresolutionof5nm.
TheLeicaLMT260XYScanningStageusesamagneto-resistivemeasurementsystemandtwolinearmotorstoproducesuchaccurateandreproducIBLeresultswithstereomicroscopes.TwolinearmotorsmovethestagetothepointofinterestinXandYdirectionswiftlyandquietly.Yet,thestagecanbemovedmanuallyanytime.Duetoabsolutemeasurements,userswillnotneedtoreferenceafterinitializingthestageandmayconcentrateontheirwork.
Thestageisalsoideallysuitedwhenitcomestoscanninglargeareaswithhighmagnification.Thesoftwaredividesthesampleintoagrid.Thestagemovesalongthisgridtothepointsofinterestandthecameratakespictures.Theimagesarejoinedtoformonehigh-resolutionpicturebythesoftwaremodulesMultistepofLeicaApplicationSuite(LAS)orTileScanswithLASAdvancedFluorescence.
HighPrecision
Twolinearmotorstakecareoftheprecisionofresultsinapplicationswithastereomicroscope.Theiraccuracyisimpressive–youwillreceiveresultswithanabsolutepositionaccuracyoflessthan1µmtolerance(sampleweight<0.5kg).
HighRepeatability
Ifseveralsamplesshallbeimagedinonego,preciserepeatabilityensuresthesuccessoftheexperiment.TheLeicaLMT260XYScanningStageoffersarepeatabilityoflessthan0.25 µmtolerance(sampleweight<0.5kg).
QuickerResults
Youwanttoobservethedevelopmentprocessofseveralsamplesinonetime-lapseexperimenttoincreaseyourstatisticalpopulationandtooptimizetheoutputofyourexperiments?TheLeicaLMT260XYScanningStagewithitsrepeatabilityandprecisionisideallysuited–andwillsaveyoutime.
AbsoluteMeasurements
Asmeasurementsareabsolute,youwillnolongerhavetoreferenceafterpoweringthestage.ThismakeshandlingtheLeicaLMT260XYScanningStageeasyandalsoallowsswitchingthestageonduringtheexperiment–yoursamplewillremaininfocus.