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CAMECA is a manufacturer of scientific instruments, namely material analysis instruments based on Charged particle beam, ions, or electrons
The company was founded as a subsidiary of (CSF), en 1929, as « Radio-cinéma » at the time of the emergence of the talkies. The job was to design and manufacture Movie projectors for big cinema screening rooms
After World War II, spurred on by , director of CSF and a future member of the French Academy of Sciences, the company manufactures scientific instruments developed in French University laboratories: The Spark Spectrometer at the beginning of the 1950s, the Castaing Microprobe from 1958, the Secondary Ion Analysers from 1968. Also in the early 1950s settles the company in the factory of Courbevoie, boulevard Saint-Denis where it will remain more than fifty years. The Spark Spectrometer was abandoned at the end of the 1950s.
The name of CAMECA, standing for Compagnie des Applications Mécaniques et Electroniques au Cinéma et à l'Atomistique was given in 1954. The business of movie projectors has been stopped soon after 1960, but in the 1960s, there is a short-lived revival of the film business through the adventure of the Scopitone.
From 1977, year of the launching of the IMS3F, CAMECA has a virtual monopoly in the field of magnetic SIMS, while it must share the market Castaing microprobe with Japanese competitors, including Jeol. Semiconductor industry is a very important outlet for magnetic SIMS. At the end of the 20th century, CAMECA gets a foothold in a third analytical technique, Tomographic atom probe.
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