(Carl Zeiss: Jena, Germany) -- Carl Zeiss, a global leader of high-tech companies in the optical and opto-electronic industry, and Digital Surf, a developer of topography software and supplier of metrology components, have signed an agreement enabling Carl Zeiss to provide ConfoMap software. ConfoMap is a surface-imaging and -analysis software for confocal microscopes and compound microscopes for topographical research.

“Carl Zeiss confocal microscopes provide strong support for the development of new materials and enable more efficient quality inspection in industry,” says Franz Reischer, product manager of the materials business unit at Carl Zeiss MicroImaging. “Research institutes and industrial facilities using Axio CSM 700, LSM 700, and other Carl Zeiss microscopes to develop and manufacture modern materials will benefit greatly from ConfoMap, which will provide them with latest surface metrology standards and methods with an intuitive user interface.”

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