PLEASANTON, CA (August 4, 2026) – Gatan, Inc., an AMETEK business and a global leader in electron microscopy solutions, today announced the F1-GIF™ System, a next-generation energy-filtered imaging and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) platform that delivers deeper chemical and structural insight for advanced transmission electron microscopy (TEM) research.
The F1-GIF overcomes the traditional tradeoff between energy range and energy resolution, allowing researchers to capture both broad spectral coverage and fine detail in a single acquisition. This reduces the need for multiple exposures, lowering electron dose, shortening acquisition times, and helping protect beam-sensitive samples.
"Researchers consistently tell us they need more of the energy-loss spectrum without sacrificing resolution, efficiency, or sample integrity," said Ray Twesten, Senior Product Manager at Gatan. "The F1-GIF combines unprecedented energy range, high resolution, and low-dose performance in one platform, enabling scientists to detect trace elements, reveal subtle chemical signatures, and gain deeper insights with confidence."
At the core of the F1-GIF is a next-generation 5,760 × 4,096-pixel direct detection sensor paired with advanced electron optics. Together, these innovations deliver more than 4,000 eV of energy range with sub-1 eV/channel sampling, enabling high-resolution analysis across a broader spectrum than previously possible.
The system operates across the full TEM accelerating voltage range of 30 – 300 kV, supporting both low- and high-voltage applications on a single platform. This flexibility is especially valuable for emerging materials and advanced semiconductor devices that are increasingly thin, complex, and sensitive to beam damage.
"By combining next-generation direct detection with a fundamentally new spectrometer architecture, the F1-GIF enables researchers to correlate composition, chemical state, structure, orientation, strain, and electrostatic behavior from the same nanoscale region," said Stephen Mick, Director of Global Sales and Product Management. "The result is richer data, more reliable characterization, and faster answers from even the most challenging materials."
Beyond conventional EELS, the F1-GIF integrates high-speed dose fractionation, low-dose spectrum imaging, and synchronized 5D STEM workflows within a unified platform. By combining elastic and inelastic scattering information, researchers can correlate chemistry, bonding, structure, orientation, strain, and internal electromagnetic fields while minimizing beam-induced damage.
These advancements enable researchers to acquire higher-quality data faster, accelerating discovery across semiconductors, energy materials, quantum materials, catalysts, and other advanced research fields.
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About Gatan
Gatan is the world's leading manufacturer of instrumentation and software used to enhance and extend the operation and performance of electron microscopes. Gatan's products, which are fully compatible with all brands of electron microscopes, cover the entire range of the analytical process from specimen preparation and manipulation to imaging and analysis. Its customer base spans the complete spectrum of end-users of analytical instrumentation typically found in industrial, governmental, and academic laboratories.
These scientists and researchers address applications in new materials research, semiconductors, electronics, geosciences, biological science, and biotechnology. The Gatan brand name is recognized and respected throughout the worldwide scientific community and has been synonymous with high-quality products and the industry's leading technology. Gatan is a business of AMETEK, Inc., a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions, serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales of over $7.5 billion.