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Motorized inverted reflected-light microscope for metallography, materials analysis, and surface inspection.
The Zeiss AXIO Observer.Z1m is an inverted, motorized metallurgical microscope configured for reflected-light brightfield and darkfield imaging. It is designed for materials characterization, polished sample analysis, metal surface inspection, coating evaluation, semiconductor inspection, and industrial quality control.
The motorized system provides automated objective selection, reflective filter positioning, shutter operation, XY stage movement, and software-controlled digital image acquisition. Imaging functions include still-image capture, live video, annotation, measurement, time-lapse acquisition, Z-stack imaging, XY stitching, mosaic imaging, and automated multidimensional acquisition through Micro-Manager.
This reflected-light metallurgical microscope is suitable for metal microstructure analysis, thin-film and coating inspection, semiconductor defect evaluation, additive manufacturing surface inspection, geological polished sections, and automotive component failure analysis. The configuration may be customized with alternative CCD, sCMOS, or EMCCD cameras, LED or metal-halide illumination, phase contrast, polarization, DIC, higher-magnification objectives, or Fluor and APO objectives.
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With a service contract, ten to fifteen years is normal for most benchtop instruments. Detectors and pumps are the parts that wear first.
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Two to six weeks, depending on refurbishment scope and whether calibration is included.
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Last updated 19 October 2026
The middle half of the 17 with a price runs from €3,122 to €8,914.
