The Independent Electron Beam Company
We design and build electron beam technologies, including full electron beam columns - for our own instruments, and for OEM partners building theirs.
Electron Column is the hardest part
The electron column - source, optics, beam control - is the most complex and most valuable part of any electron-beam instrument. Almost every manufacturer builds it in-house, behind closed doors. We are the independent alternative: a team that designs columns from first principles, proves them in simulation, and builds them in metal.
Complete Physics for Electron & Ion Optics
EOD (Electron Optical Design) is an industry-standard, high-precision simulation suite built specifically to design, optimize, and verify charged particle systems from the emitter to the sample.
Whether you are developing a low-voltage SEM, a high-power X-ray source, or a complex multi-stage lithography system, EOD provides the complete physics simulation workflow.
Design
We simulate charged particle systems to first-order FEM accuracy with EOD — the software we distribute and use every day. Aberrations, space charge, manufacturing tolerances, all before any metal is cut.
Our flagship: a 60 kV, 2 kW electron-beam column
Built in-house — proof that our simulations hold up in metal.
A high-power column for electron-beam melting and welding, with an integrated backscatter (BSE) detector that brings SEM-like navigation and metrology to the process itself. It doesn't just deliver the beam — it lets you see and measure what the beam is doing, live.
60 kV · 2 kW · BSE imaging · EB melting + welding · metrology
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