no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . january 2015 zurich instruments type corporation industry test & measurement founded 2008 founder sadik hafizovic flavio heer beat hofstetter headquarters zurich switzerland area served worldwide key people sadik hafizovic ceo flavio heer cto stephan koch vp m & s adrian messmer vp r & d products lock in amplifier boxcar averagers phased locked loops pll impedance spectroscopes digitizers number of employees 30 website www.zhinst.com zurich instruments ltd. is a swiss company developing and selling advanced test & measurement instruments for dynamic signal analysis . the company is based in zurich switzerland . the company focuses in delivering feature rich products to academic and industrial research and development organizations . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit zurich instruments was founded in april 2008 as a spin off from the swiss federal institute of technology eth zurich . 1 the company commercialized its first hf2 platform in may 2009 after having developed first prototypes for academic research projects . the first derived product was the hf2li lock in amplifier which is an instrument suited for physics research facilities . in 2010 the hf2pll phase locked loop pll followed targeting surface analysis like spm stm and afm . the world wide adoption of the hf2li lead to development of the uhfli lock in amplifier to date the worlds fastest commercial lock in amplifier both in terms of frequency range and demodulation bandwidth . in addition for the first time in commercial products a lock in amplifier was capable to support boxcar averaging option introduced in 2013 and signal digitizing option launched in 2014 2 . zurich instruments has actively fostered international cooperation in the scope of eu funded research projects 3 4 world wide sales network 5 and development partners . for instance in may 2011 zurich instruments and nanosurf have announced the start of a strategic technology partnership that offers the hf2pll phase locked loop as upgrade path for the easypll platform for spm applications . 6 in a more recent collaboration the electrical impedance spectroscopy platform eisp was launched together with french fluigent and dutch micronit for the commercialization of ready to use electrical impedance analysis system . 7 see also edit lock in amplifier phase locked loop microfluidic companies overview references edit eth bio engineering laboratory spin off . zurich instruments opens a new market niche . single cell technologies for sme . development of innovative microfluidic impedance based device for multi parametric cell analysis . world wide sales partners . nanosurf and zurich instruments announce partnership . market leaders join forces in electrical impedance spectroscopy . external links edit uhfli 600 mhz lock in amplifier from zurich instruments uhf dig digitizer from zurich instruments uhf box boxcar averager from zurich instruments hf2li 50 mhz lock in amplifier from zurich instruments zurich instruments home page eth zurich retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zurich instruments & oldid 739333925 categories companies based in z richhidden categories orphaned articles from january 2015all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 02 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view