What does your microscopy image reveal and what remains unresolved?
Join Oxford Instruments at the 59th Congress of the Microscopy Society of Southern Africa to explore how electron microscopy analysis and confocal Raman imaging can help answer complementary questions about your samples.
With MSSA 2026 embracing multimodal imaging, quantitative mapping and elemental analysis across materials and life sciences, discover analytical approaches that connect what you see with what your sample is made of and how it is structured.
Why visit us?
Bring the question your current images cannot answer. Visit the Oxford Instruments booth in the foyer to discuss how BEX, EDS, EBSD and Raman can help you investigate composition and structure, where AFM or nanoindentation could add surface and mechanical context, and how benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can complement microscopy with sample-level chemical and physical information. Book a meeting with our experts to identify a practical next step for your sample, including what Symmetry S4 could mean for your EBSD work.
- Locate the chemistry that matters. Explore how AZtecLive with Ultim Max EDS reveals elemental variations in real time to guide detailed investigation. Discuss AZtecTEM for elemental characterisation at the nanoscale.
- Understand the microstructure behind material behaviour. Connect elemental composition with grain orientation, texture and phases through complementary EDS and EBSD measurements. Ask how Symmetry S4 can help emerging diffraction-pattern insight guide your next measurement.
- Identify compounds, not just elements. Discover how WITec confocal Raman imaging distinguishes molecular components and adds label-free chemical context. Discuss crystallinity and stress analysis where relevant to your sample.
- Connect complementary views of the same sample. Explore how RISE Raman-SEM links surface detail with molecular information from the same sample area. Discuss how SEM, EDS and Raman provide complementary evidence to interpret heterogeneous regions.
- Connect microscopy with complementary NMR insight. Building on MSSA’s focus on multimodal characterisation across materials and life sciences, explore how our benchtop NMR solutions can address questions beyond the image. Discuss X-Pulse for high-resolution multinuclear spectroscopy and reaction monitoring, MQC-R time-domain NMR for molecular mobility, phase behaviour and diffusion in materials such as polymers and porous media, and GeoSpec for rock-core porosity and fluid characterisation. These complementary measurements can help place local microscopy observations in a broader sample context.
Build your EBSD & EDS skills before MSSA
Join Oxford Instruments, our distributor Wirsam Scientific and the University of Cape Town for the free pre-event workshop “Moving Beyond Casual EBSD & EDS” on 29 November 2026, 10:30–17:00, at the UCT Electron Microscopy Unit, University of Cape Town.
Led by Keith Dicks, Senior Applications Scientist, this masterclass covers sample preparation, SEM beam conditions and geometry, detector and solver settings, Hough versus pattern matching indexing, data processing, combined EBSD and EDS mapping, and angular precision, alongside a presentation of Oxford Instruments’ latest innovations. A return shuttle from Stellenbosch (departing at 09:00), light lunch, tea breaks and dinner in Stellenbosch are included at no cost.
Interested in attending? Email both marketing@wirsam.com and nasheeta.hanief@uct.ac.za to enquire about availability and registration. Please confirm your place with the organisers before travelling.
Location
Protea Hotel, Stellenbosch
Date
30 November - 3 Decemberr 2026
Businesses
Andor, Asylum Research, NanoAnalysis, NanoIndentation, Raman
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