Application Notes

The availability of new silicon drift detectors (SDD) allows for more precise measurements in less acquisition time. SDDs are often praised for their excellent energy resolution, but it is their increased throughput that make them ideal for many industrial applications. Due to the detector's smaller capacitance, a much shorter peaking time is used in the shaping amplifier without sacrificing resolution. This dramatically increases the throughput of the system. Compared with a conventional Si-PIN detector where the peaking time is as long as 25 ms, the drift detector operates at 1.6 ms, thereby increasing throughput from 10,000 counts per second to over 100,000. This advantage can be used in two primary ways.

Ocean Optics, Inc.

Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX

Biotools, Inc.

PerkinElmer, Inc.

Retsch, Inc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Amptek, Inc.

PIKE Technologies, Inc.

HORIBA Jobin Yvon, Inc.

Bruker Optics

Lambda Solutions, Inc.

WITec GmbH

EDAX, Inc.

SPEX CertiPrep, Inc.