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Zurich Instruments Ltd. is an Swiss company developing and selling advanced test & measurement instruments for dynamic signal analysis such as high performance lock-in amplifiers and impedance spectroscopes. The company is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

History
Zurich Instruments was founded in April 2008 as a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). The first offices were located in the Technopark in Zurich. With first sales in 2008 and the introduction of the HF2 Series in 2009, the company quickly began expanding both its customer base and its workforce. The initial product offering consisted of lock-in amplifiers and impedance spectroscopes. Important advertizing campaigns in leading physics magazines around the world have lead to a relevant brand recognition in the physics community after only few years. With the move to larger premises in the Technopark in February 2011, Zurich Instruments increased its capacity for further expansion. In May 2011, Zurich Instruments and Nanosurf have announced the start of a strategic technology partnership, in which the HF2LI 50 MHz PLL from Zurich Instruments is the official upgrade path for the easyPLL platform in Nanosurf's high-performance scanning probe microscopes. In February 2012, Zurich Instruments introduced the fastest commercial lock-in amplifier - the UHFLI Lock-in Amplifier – capable of demodulating up to 600 MHz..

Application Fields & Markets
  Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)  Quantum & Nanophysics  Laser Spectroscopy & Photonics Sensors & Actuators Semiconductors & Engineering  Bioengineering & Med-technology Electrochemistry 