Oxford Instruments plc is a leading provider of high technology products and services to the world's leading industrial companies and scientific research communities.

Our core purpose is to support our customers to address some of the world's most pressing challenges, enabling a greener economy, increased connectivity, improved health and leaps in scientific understanding. We are proud to be recognised as the leaders in what we do and for the difference we make in the world.

Oxford Instruments is a leading provider of high technology products and services to the world's leading companies and scientific research communities. Our businesses image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level, enabling our customers to accelerate their R&D, increase productivity and make new scientific discoveries. 

Oxford has a broad spectrum of capability and expertise. Oxford Instruments is composed of 8 business units structured into two divisions. Materials and Characterisation develops products and solutions that enable the fabrication and characterisation of devices down to the atomic scale. Research and Discovery provides advanced solutions that create unique environments and enable imaging and analytical measurements down to molecular and atomic levels:

Materials and Characterisation

• Oxford Instruments Asylum Research is the Technology Leading Manufacturer for Atomic Force Microscopy.
• Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance is a leader in benchtop NMR spectroscopy and time domain (TD-NMR) relaxometry solutions enable novel research and optimise quality control.
• Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis provides leading-edge tools that enable materials characterisation and sample manipulation at the nanometre scale. Used on electron microscopes (SEM and TEM) and ion-beam systems (FIB), our tools are used for R&D across a wide range of academic and industrial applications including semiconductors, renewable energy, mining, metallurgy, and forensics.
• Oxford Instruments WITec is a leader in d Raman, Atomic Force Microscopy, and Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy.

Research and Discovery

• Oxford Instruments Andor Technology are global leaders in the development and manufacture of high performance scientific digital cameras, microscopy systems and spectrographs for academic, industrial and government applications.
• Oxford Instruments Imaris is the world's leading Interactive Microscopy Image Analysis software company, actively shaping the way microscopic images are processed through constant innovation and a clear focus on 3D and 4D imaging.
• Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology is a leading provider of etch & deposition processing equipment & solutions.
• Oxford Instruments NanoScience are world leaders in dilution refrigerators and ultrahigh magnetic field environments for research applications including quantum technologies, nano technology research, advanced materials, and nano device development.
• Oxford Instruments X-Ray Technology is a leading manufacturer of x-ray tubes, power supplies, and integrated x-ray sources.

Our business model is to form an economic bridge between core academic and government research and advanced industrial applications, notably in materials industry through to automotive, batteries, semiconductor, pharmaceuticals, and life science segments.