News

Martin Seah MBE 1941 - 2021

Published: 
June 21st 2021
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr Martin Seah MBE in early June. Martin's career directly contributed to the success of the Kratos' surface analysis business group, establishing XPS as the primary technique for chemical surface characterisation. Whilst we mourn the loss, we also celebrate the significant contributions that Martin made to the advancement of XPS, AES and the surface analysis community.
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Successful German Users’ Meeting 2021

Published: 
June 7th 2021
Thank you to our German Users who contributed to a successful meeting at the end of May. It was good to learn of the work both our established and newest Users are producing using Kratos AXIS instruments. It’s always fascinating to learn of the breadth research undertaken, from soil analysis to metrology standards.
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Review of Users' Meetings : 21st - 24th September 2020

Published: 
October 1st 2020
The 2020 Users' Meetings moved online and were held between 21st - 24th September. The new format allowed many more Users to attend the meeting with over 150 Users registered for the European & Asia meeting and 70 registered for the North American Meeting. The meetings were a mix of User and Kratos presentations with plenty of opportunity for Q&As, discussion and networking. Recordings of the presentations are now available in the Members Area to watch again.
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We're hiring!

Published: 
March 10th 2020
We are currently seeking a talented individuals for a number of roles at our Headquarters in Manchester, UK.
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1980's ES-300 still generating data

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September 27th 2019
During the recent ECASIA’19 we met up with Dr. Lidiya Kibis who is working at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our interest was sparked when Dr. Kibis told us that her institute were generating data from a Kratos ES-300. Whilst we doubt that there are any working spectrometers older than the ES-300 at Boreskov Institute of Catalysis we’d welcome your stories to help us celebrate Kratos’ 50 years of XPS.
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Vision 2 on MS Windows 10

Published: 
February 26th 2019
Kratos’ Vision2 acquisition and processing software is now available for Microsoft Windows 10 operating system. With less than a year to end of life for MS Windows 7, now is the perfect time to upgrade to Vision 2 on a Windows 10 PC.
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Global Users' Meeting, October 2018

Published: 
October 25th 2018
Short overview of the Global Users' Meeting 2019 hosted at UC Irvine on 19th October. Here we present an overview of the presentations from at the Global Users meeting, attended by 42 Users from 18 institutes.
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Review of the 2016 US Users' Meeting

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May 31st 2016
The North American Users Meeting was hosted on the US west coast at UC Irvine. Attended by over 30 Kratos Users and 5 Kratos applications, support and sales staff the meeting was an excellent opportunity for the attendees to present research conducted with Kratos instruments. Here we review the meeting.
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