Spotlight™ IR microscope systems are designed to meet the challenges of an expanding laboratory by generating high-quality, reproducible data from a variety of sample types. The Spotlight 400 FT-IR Imaging System combines high sensitivity and rapid imaging with ease-of-use. The ability to image large sample areas rapidly at high spatial resolution extends FT-IR microscopy into new applications.
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FT-IR Imaging for Exceptional Analyses
The Spotlight 400 FT-IR Imaging System is designed with state-of-the-art technology to allow for intelligent automation and sophisticated analysis capabilities. The system incorporates a number of unique productivity tools and features an ATR imaging system that enables the collection of high resolution infrared images of extremely small samples to visualize the composition of materials based on FT-IR spectral data.
Unique features of the Spotlight 400 System include:
The Spotlight 400 FT-IR Imaging System can be configured to meet your FT-IR microscopy demands and produce high-quality spectra and FT-IR images from extremely small samples. See the Configurations table below for standard options, and contact a sales representative for more information to customize a system to suit your analysis needs.
A variety of optional accessories and consumables are available for use with the Spotlight systems, such as an infrared polarizer kit, heated stage accessory, crystal compression cells, and a micro-sampling tool kit for ease with sample handling and preparation.
Microscopy for a Variety of Applications
Easy to use, yet exceptionally powerful and versatile, the Spotlight’s flexibility and sensitivity make it a perfect addition to any lab setting, in any discipline. Some of the applications supported by the Spotlight 400 System include:
Results Matter
The powerful software suite drives the Spotlight 400 system and can support advanced FT-IR analysis in research and industrial laboratories, always providing optimal results. The software supplied with the system gives you full control over the microscope including the focusing on the sample, illumination, stage position, changing between sampling modes, and manipulating the spectra that you collect. The spectrometers can operate in ratio, single-beam, or interferogram mode. SpectrumIMAGE software enables control over the imaging system with the ability to view sample images with ease in real time. With Spectrum MultiSearch, identification of unknown mixtures is made simple through the use of comparison algorithms allowing for the separation and library matching of up to 10 components.
| 21 CFR Part 11 Compatible | Yes |
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| Depth | 57.0 cm |
| Detector Type | MCT |
| Height | 47.0 cm |
| Operating Range | 5 – 40 °C |
| Portable | No |
| Product Brand Name | Spotlight |
| Product Group | Instrument |
| Warranty | 1 year |
| Wave Length | 7800-600 cm-1 |
| Wave Length Range | 7,800 – 600 cm-1 |
| Weight | 32.0 kg |
| Width | 34.0 cm |
| Model | Spotlight Detector | Frontier Options | Standard Features | Optional Extras |
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| Spotlight 400 – Frontier MIR | MCT or DTGS |
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| Spotlight 400 – Frontier MIR/NIR | MCT or DTGS |
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Choose the PerkinElmer Frontier™ range of near-, mid- and far-IR Fourier Transform spectrometers for superior spectroscopic performance in demanding applications. Powerful and adaptable, the Frontier meets all your current analysis needs and can be expanded as your research goals evolve. And with automated range switching, mid- near- or far-IR techniques are available at your fingertips. An exceptional signal-to-noise ratio and photometric performance assures optimal spectral performance to ensure best-in-class sensitivity. This configurable platform provides dependable, consistent and trouble-free operation through years of service.
Frontier™ is PerkinElmer’s most powerful, adaptable IR solution yet, specially developed to offer superior performance in demanding applications.
With Spotlight 400 FT-IR and Spotlight 400N FT-NIR imaging systems, you experience unprecedented, uncompromising data quality and clear, complete, highly detailed results from all your samples. Spotlight FT-IR systems are purpose-built for a wide range of demanding imaging applications. So you’re able to switch between sampling modes – standard transmission, reflection, ATR imaging, and more – with ease, and your images can be collected.
It’s not every day that a masterpiece is created. But how else does one describe a laboratory instrument that will dramatically improve the understanding of materials across an unprecedented range of industries. With the Spotlight™ 400, IR imaging just became faster, more efficient and more flexible than ever before. It is quite simply the most productive laboratory FT-IR imaging system in the world.
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