World’s First Benchtop Nano-CT Scanner
The NeoScan N90 is the world’s first benchtop nano-CT scanner, redefining what is possible in laboratory-based X-ray tomography. Designed to deliver true nanometer-scale resolution in a compact, desk-ready system, the N90 brings cutting-edge nano-CT technology directly to researchers—without the need for large-scale infrastructures or specialized facilities.
By combining ultra-high spatial resolution, exceptional mechanical stability, flexible detector geometry, and an integrated full-field micro-XRF module, the NeoScan N90 offers unprecedented insights into the internal structure and composition of materials. It is an ideal solution for advanced research in materials science, composites, electronics, energy storage, geology, and nanotechnology.
Ultra-High Resolution Nano-CT Performance
At the core of the NeoScan N90 lies its outstanding spatial resolution capability. The system achieves a minimum voxel size of 40 nm for small samples and demonstrates a spatial resolution of 300 nm on standard JIMA resolution patterns. This positions the N90 firmly in the nano-CT class, enabling visualization of features that are entirely inaccessible to conventional micro-CT systems.
The open (pumped) X-ray source, featuring a tungsten-on-diamond transmission target, provides an exceptionally small focal spot in the range of 250–300 nm, ensuring sharp projections and highly detailed reconstructions across a wide energy range up to 160 kV.
Flexible Dual-Detector Architecture
The NeoScan N90 is equipped with a standard dual-detector configuration, allowing seamless switching between detectors via software, with no mechanical reconfiguration.
A high-speed 7 MP flat-panel detector is used for efficient overviews and larger field-of-view measurements, while a 27 MP back-illuminated true 16-bit sCMOS detector delivers maximum sensitivity, dynamic range and resolution for nanoscale investigations. This variable geometry architecture provides exceptional flexibility and allows users to optimize each scan for speed, contrast or ultimate resolution with a single mouse click.
Integrated Full-Field micro-XRF for Correlative Analysis
Uniquely among nano-CT systems, the NeoScan N90 integrates a full-field micro-XRF module directly into the platform. This enables elemental mapping of samples in addition to high-resolution 3D structural imaging.
The XRF system uses dual 50 kV, 50 W excitation sources and a photon-counting detector with 300 eV energy resolution, providing valuable chemical information that complements the nano-CT data. This correlative CT-XRF capability delivers deeper insights into complex materials, such as multiphase composites, mineral samples, electronic components and battery materials.
Exceptional Mechanical Stability & Precision
Achieving true nanometer-scale resolution requires absolute mechanical precision and vibration control. The NeoScan N90 is built on an anti-vibration granite platform with pneumatic leveling feet, ensuring outstanding stability during long, high-magnification scans.
The integrated positioning system delivers a rotation runout below 50 nm, guaranteeing consistent alignment and image fidelity throughout the scan, even at the highest resolutions.
Compact, Benchtop Design with Integrated Infrastructure
Despite its nano-CT performance, the NeoScan N90 is designed as a personal, benchtop system. The high-vacuum environment required by the X-ray source is fully integrated into the instrument, simplifying installation and daily operation.
Radiation-hardened fiber-optic coupling protects both detectors, allowing safe and reliable long-term use in standard laboratory environments without extensive shielding requirements.
Technical Highlights (Overview)
Typical Applications
The NeoScan N90 is ideally suited for advanced investigations such as carbon-fiber reinforced polymers, electronic components and multilayer ceramic capacitors, lithium-ion battery materials, geological microstructures, and metallic or mineral phases where both nanoscale structure and elemental composition are critical.
Why Choose the NeoScan N90?
The NeoScan N90 delivers true nano-CT capability in a benchtop format, combining unmatched spatial resolution, flexible detector configurations and integrated micro-XRF analysis in a single, compact system. It enables researchers to perform nanoscale 3D imaging and correlative chemical analysis directly in their own laboratories—pushing the boundaries of non-destructive material characterization.
📌 For full technical specifications, configuration options and application examples, please visit the official NeoScan N90 product page.
