New materials, improvement of existing ones and investigation of their properties in industry, nature protection or medicine. All this is possible thanks to electron microscopes.

As the name of the institution suggests, research revolves around devices and their components for diagnostics in the field of micro and nanotechnology. With significant results - also thanks to cooperation with industry. This has resulted in a number of unique instruments, often the first of their kind in the Czech Republic or even in the world.

A historical example is the SEM Tesla BS242 benchtop electron microscope, which won the Gold Medal at EXPO 58 in Brussels. Most recently, the institute can boast, for example, of obtaining a US patent for a high-frequency electrocardiogram (UHF-ECG), which makes diagnostics more accurate.

In recent years, the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS (ISI) has been searching for and improving new physical methods in its traditional fields of activity. It also uses artificial intelligence and mathematical modelling of processes.

In addition to electron microscopy, ISI CAS brings together six scientific departments with different focuses, including the use of lasers and the measurement of biosignal