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Zurich Instruments
Company typeCorporation
IndustryTest & measurement
Founded2008
FounderSadik Hafizovic
Flavio Heer
Beat Hofstetter
HeadquartersZurich, Switzerland
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Sadik Hafizovic (CEO)
Flavio Heer (CTO)
Stephan Koch (VP M&S)
Adrian Messmer (VP R&D)
ProductsLock-in Amplifier
Boxcar Averagers
Phased-locked Loops (PLL)
Impedance Spectroscopes
Digitizers
Number of employees
30
Websitewww.zhinst.com

Zurich Instruments Ltd. is a Swiss company developing and selling advanced test & measurement instruments for dynamic signal analysis. The company is based in Zurich, Switzerland. The company focuses in delivering feature-rich products to academic and industrial research and development organizations.

History

Zurich Instruments was founded in April 2008 as a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).[1] The company commercialized its first HF2 platform in May 2009 after having developed first prototypes for academic research projects. The first derived product was the HF2LI Lock-in Amplifier, which is an instrument suited for physics research facilities. In 2010 the HF2PLL Phase-locked Loop (PLL) followed targeting surface analysis like SPM, STM and AFM. The worldwide adoption of the HF2LI lead to development of the UHFLI Lock-in Amplifier, to date the worlds fastest commercial lock-in amplifier both in terms of frequency range and demodulation bandwidth. In addition, for the first time in commercial products, a lock-in amplifier was capable to support boxcar averaging (option introduced in 2013) and signal digitizing (option launched in 2014 [2]).

Zurich Instruments has actively fostered international cooperation in the scope of EU funded research projects,[3][4] worldwide sales network [5] and development partners. For instance, in May 2011, Zurich Instruments and Nanosurf have announced the start of a strategic technology partnership that offers the HF2PLL Phase-locked Loop as upgrade path for the easyPLL platform for SPM applications.[6] In a more recent collaboration, the electrical impedance spectroscopy platform (EISP) was launched together with French Fluigent and Dutch Micronit for the commercialization of ready-to-use electrical impedance analysis system.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "ETH Bio Engineering Laboratory Spin-off".
  2. ^ "Zurich Instruments opens a new market niche".
  3. ^ "Single cell technologies for SME".
  4. ^ "Development of Innovative Microfluidic Impedance Based Device for Multi-parametric Cell Analysis".
  5. ^ "World Wide sales partners".
  6. ^ "Nanosurf and Zurich Instruments Announce Partnership".
  7. ^ "Market Leaders Join Forces in Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy".
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