About us:

CEO Jarle Hjelen

Jarle Hjelen utilized EBSD in his PhD study to characterize the microstructure of aluminum alloys. At that time, the EBSD technology had many shortcomings, and in 1990 professor Hjelen established the company Jarle Hjelen AS. The main products became EBSD detectors, and these are sold worldwide under the brand name NORDIF®

  • Steps in the NORDIF EBSD detector development:
  • 1992: Introduction of the very first commercial CCD camera based EBSD detector.
  • 1995: 2nd generation NORDIF EBSD detectors including on-chip integration.
  • 2002: 3rd generation detectors: introduction of digital camera with pixel binning.
  • 2007: 4th generation detectors with GigE cameras – the Ultra Fast (UF) series.
  • - Substantially increased frame rate and sensitivity.
  • - The very first EBSD detection system designed for pattern streaming
  • - The first to break the 1000Hz barrier.
  • 2013: the very highest EBSD resolution (HR) camera (4 megapixel)
  • 2018: NORDIF 3.0 acquisition software, including:
  • - Distortion correction
  • - Multi contrast electron imaging capabilities
  • 2018: NICE (NORDIF In-Chamber-EBSD) detector
  • - the very first EBSD detector for table top SEMs.