Application Notes: General

Patented UltraWAVE SRC technology goes beyond traditional digestion, offering greater capabilities for the most difficult sample types. High-performance stainless steel construction allows for higher pressures and temperatures, while disposable vessels eliminate the need to assemble, disassemble or clean between processing. Just as important, dissimilar samples can be processed simultaneously, saving time and money.

Up-conversion finds important applications from biological labels to sensors and solar cells. This application note elucidates the experimental requirements for the characterisation of up-conversion using lanthanides as a model material.

This paper compares the performance of the Agilent OneNeb Series 2 nebulizer with conventional glass concentric and inert nebulizers recommended by PerkinElmer for use with the Optima Series ICP-OES systems.

Spectral Systems has developed its Diamond XP-BBAR™ coating. With our coating the SNR is about 30% better through most of the analysis region of a typical FT-IR instrument.

Spectral Systems is the world’s leading supplier of beamsplitter components our coatings can eliminate undesirable spectral features.

Spectral Systems’ Super-Sealed™ Liquid Cells are designed and manufactured for leak free precision quantitative analysis and maximum reproducibility.

Spectral Systems’ Infrared Windows are available in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and materials for measurement and operation in the infrared spectral domain.

A novel approach in Raman spectroscopy enables bulk material analysis without the need for specialized equipment. Enhanced Raman reflection can be integrated into current processes using available instrumentation, enabling real-time process measurement and control.

Closed vessel microwave digestion has proven to be an effective alternative to traditional sample prep techniques with methods of fast, complete digestions, clean environment, and full recovery of volatile compounds.

Modern paints and varnishes are complex mixtures and the optimization of the material properties is an important task. One of the most essential variables is the curing which should in most cases take place in a reasonably short time span that can range from a fraction of a second to many days. It is difficult to evaluate the degree of the curing and its completeness by visual inspection. Therefore, an unbiased and reliable quantitative analysis is needed in quality control but also in R&D to optimize the varnish or the curing method respectively.

Thermal decomposition provides valuable information about the chemical composition of a material. Although thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) measures small weight losses during a heating ramp, it cannot identify the chemicals corresponding to the weight loss.

Used everywhere from bar code scanners to sophisticated single-molecule microscopes, lasers are powerful and cost-effective light sources for applications spanning basic research to consumer entertainment.

The new Savillex PFA Cyclonic Spray Chamber is the first inert chamber with the traditional shape of a glass cyclonic, and is also the first translucent inert chamber.

Ancient Roman builders designed maritime concrete harbor structures to remain intact in the aggressive seawater environment for very long periods of time.

Milestone's UltraWAVE microwave digestion system with single reaction chamber (SRC) technology, enables the simultaneous digestion of up of to 22 different sample types and chemistries at temperatures and pressures as high as 300 ?C and 199 bar.

The permitted sulfur limit in fuel oils has been decreased to 10 ppm in many regions.

Grazing angle Ge ATR spectroscopy is extremely sensitive to monolayers and thin films on high refractive index substrates such as Si.

A broadband polarizing beamsplitter (PBS) cube was developed using embedded Moxtek Nanowire grid polarizer technology.

Raman measurement on microscopic inclusions in fluorescent materials requires the ability to measure in small volumes, excellent throughput, and long wavelength excitation such as 1064 nm for fluorescence reduction.

The thermal treatment of a grafted Sn-SiO2 catalyst was monitored in situ using diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS).

The "inelastic scattering of light," or Raman effect, was observed in practice for the first time in 1928 by C.V. Raman for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930.

A method for quantifying the percent sulfate associated with sodium lauryl sulfate (also referred to as sodium dodecyl sulfate) and sodium laureth sulfate (also referred to as sodium lauryl ether sulfate) found in commonly used commercial body care products using FT-IR attenuated total reflectance (ATR) spectroscopy is outlined.

Newly developed software tools provide various functions for the acquisition, evaluation, and processing for high-resolution 3D Raman images.

Bruker's IFS 125HR spectrometer is designed as an ultra-high resolution FT-IR spectrometer which provides outstanding performance for R&D laboratory application.

The lanthanide series is a series of metallic elements, with atomic numbers 58 through 71, which are - in order of increasing atomic number - cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium.

Raman microscopy is a high resolution imaging technique that has become widely used for the characterization of materials in terms of their chemical composition.

The new Savillex C400d PFA concentric nebulizer for ICP-MS combines the reliability of a low flow glass nebulizer with the chemical resistance and low elemental background of a PFA concentric nebulizer.

Polymer orientation of a blow-molded plastic was investigated using FTIR-ATR with polarization. By using a variable angle ATR accessory, changes in spectral features were observed at two different probing depths.