We have advised the shareholders of FemtoTools AG (FemtoTools), a company specialising in the design and manufacture of high-speed, precision nanoindenters, on their sale to Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high technology products and services to industry and scientific research communities.
FemtoTools, based in Zurich, Switzerland, specialises in measuring and imaging the properties, primarily the hardness and stiffness of materials for research and semiconductor applications at very high resolution via a technique called nanoindentation. It joins Oxford Instruments’ Imaging & Analysis division, where its products will be sold in conjunction with the group’s existing range of materials analysis tools, including electron microscope micro-analysers and Raman microscopes.
