Streamlining Steel Microanalysis
SEM and EDS Integration with Axia ChemiSEM
Monday, October 13, 2025
16:00 - 17:00 (Romanian time)
You are invited to the DGM webinar presented by Thermo Fisher Scientific titled Streamlining Steel Microanalysis: SEM and EDS Integration with Axia ChemiSEM, on 13th of October from 16:00 to 17:00 (Romanian Time).
Accurate and efficient characterization of steel microstructures is essential for alloy development, failure analysis, and quality control. However, traditional SEM-EDS workflows are often slow, manual, and fragmented, limiting throughput and reproducibility.
This webinar offers a detailed technical overview of the Axia™ ChemiSEM™ system, an integrated SEM-EDS platform that delivers real-time materials characterization through live quantitative elemental mapping and simultaneous secondary and backscattered electron imaging. These capabilities enable rapid differentiation of phases, inclusions, and compositional variations in complex steels, without interrupting acquisition.
A case study using Perception Steel software will demonstrate how automated particle detection, feature classification, and statistical reporting further streamline analysis. Together, Axia ChemiSEM and Perception Steel support high-throughput, reproducible workflows critical for both metallurgical research and industrial QA/QC.
Speaker: Kate Vanderburgh, Senior SEM Product Specialist Material Science, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Kate Vanderburgh is a Sr. SEM Product Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Before joining Thermo in 2024, Kate managed the SEM, computerized tomography, and sample preparation tools at the Drexel University Materials Characterization Core. Kate has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Vanderbilt University followed by a post-doctoral research appointment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In addition to her experience in electron microscopy, she has an extensive background in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for battery applications.