Agilent expands materials science business.Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , CA 6/30/08--Agilent Technologies has acquired MTS (1) See Microsoft Transaction Server. (2) (Modular TV System) The stereo channel added to the NTSC standard, which includes the SAP audio channel for special use. 1. MTS - Message Transport System. 2. Systems' Nano Instruments business unit. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Nano Instruments business unit provides nanoindentation systems and related equipment for imaging, characterizing and quantifying nanomechanical material properties. "With Agilent's robust sales channel and global infrastructure, we anticipate growing the Nano Instruments business and offering a more complete nanomeasurement product portfolio to our customers worldwide," said Bob Burns, vice president of Agilent's Nanotechnology Measurements Division, part of Agilent's Materials Science materials science Study of the properties of solid materials and how those properties are determined by the material's composition and structure, both macroscopic and microscopic. Solutions Unit. Agilent stated that nanoindentation is an adjacent market to atomic force microscopy microscopy /mi·cros·co·py/ (mi-kros´kah-pe) examination under or observation by means of the microscope. mi·cros·co·py n. 1. The study of microscopes. 2. , a product line that Agilent also offers. The Nano Instruments business was founded in 1983 and is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee Oak Ridge is an incorporated city in Anderson and Roane Counties in East Tennessee, about 25 miles northwest of Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 27,387 people at the 2000 census. . MTS Systems acquired the company in 1998. The majority of MTS's instrument business serves the automotive market and thus is not focused on nano techniques. Nanotechnology is a target market for Agilent's Materials Science Solution Unit, making for a more suitable fit. |
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