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CAMECA is a manufacturer of scientific instruments, namely material analysis instruments based on Charged particle beam, ions, or electrons == History == The company was founded as a subsidiary of Compagnie générale de la télégraphie sans fil (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〔Emmanuel de Chambost, ''A History of CAMECA (1954-2009)'', in ''Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics'', Vol.167, 2011, pp.1-119, ISBN 978-0-12-385985-3〕 After World War II, spurred on by Maurice Ponte, director of CSF and a future member of the French Academy of Sciences, the company manufactures scientific instruments developed in university French laboratories: Spark Spectrometer at the beginning of the 1950s, Castaing Microprobe from 1958, then 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.〔〔Jean-Charles Scagnetti, ''L'aventure scopitone (1957-1983)'', Paris, Editions Autrement, Coll. Mémoires/Culture, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7467-1396-3 p.10-17 and p.27-45〕 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.〔 In 1987, CAMECA left the Thomson-CSF group and was subject to a Leveraged buyout operation led by its management and its employees. In 2001, the company was sold to a small French Private equity fund, and then to another private equity fund controlled by Carlyle Group. This last owner sold again CAMECA to Ametek and Ametek subsequently merged it with Imago Scientific Instruments in 2010.〔 From 1975, the number of employee has been about 200. Subsidiaries were created in United States, Japan, Korea, Taïwan and Germany. These subsidiaries were engaged in commercial and maintenance activities and employ a few dozen people.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CAMECA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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