Place the aperture over the sample, acquire the spectra. Fast, simple and easy.
That square is the aperture — the exact microscopic area a CRAIC instrument measures. Absorbance, reflectance, fluorescence, polarization, Raman and film thickness, from the deep ultraviolet to the near-infrared.
What makes it a microspectrophotometer
A microscope shows you the pixel. Ours tells you its spectrum.
CRAIC Technologies™ designs, builds and supports microspectrometers that collect spectra and images of microscopic samples from the deep UV to the NIR.
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The aperture — one OLED sub-pixel, measured -
The spectrum — emission from three colour sub-pixels
What goes under the objective
From OLED sub-pixels to protein crystals.
Every one is a real sample, measured on a CRAIC instrument.
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Mouse tongue, 280 nmUV transmission imaging -
Single textile fibreForensic science -
Feather barbuleBiology and chemistry -
Vitrinite maceralsPetrography -
Fluorescing microspheresFluorescence imaging -
Protein crystalsLife science -
Integrated circuitSemiconductor metrology -
Automotive paint cross-sectionIndustrial coatings
Who makes them
Making the finest tools for the finest minds.
CRAIC Technologies designs, manufactures and supports every instrument it sells.
- 25Years in the micro-analysis field
- 500Clients worldwide
- ISO 9001Certified quality management
The instruments
Pick the instrument that fits your sample.
A microspectrophotometer measures the UV-visible-NIR spectra of microscopic samples by transmittance, reflectance, polarization, fluorescence and other types of luminescence. With specialized software, the same instrument measures thin film thickness, colorimetry and more.
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2030PV PRO™UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometer -
2030XL PRO™Microspot measurements on very large samples -
508PV™A spectrometer for the microscope you already own -
FLEX PRO™UV-visible microspectrophotometer -
Apollo M™Confocal Raman microspectrometer -
UVM-1™UV-visible-NIR microscope -
GeoImage™Vitrinite reflectance and petrography -
rIQ™Glass refractive index
Dedicated systems
Petrography, glass and thin films
Three systems, each built for one measurement: vitrinite reflectance in coal, coke and petroleum source rock; the refractive index of glass fragments; and thin film thickness, including mapping.
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What the instrument measures
Techniques
A microspectrofluorometer measures the fluorescence, photoluminescence and emission spectra of microscopic samples, with excitation in the UV, visible and NIR regions. A Raman microspectrometer measures their Raman spectra. A UV-visible-NIR microscope images what a visible-range microscope cannot: protein crystals for drug discovery, contamination control for semiconductors, the interior circuits of bonded silicon devices.
- What is a microspectrophotometer?Absorbance, reflectance and transmittance
- What is a Raman microspectrometer?Molecular identification
- Microspectrophotometer designHow the instrument is built
- The science of microspectroscopyEmission, excitation and the spectrum
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Instrument control and analysis
Software
CRAIC software runs the instrument and the analysis: spectroscopy, vitrinite reflectance, hyperspectral mapping, kinetics, colorimetry, thin film thickness, and a Raman spectral database.
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By industry and by sample
Applications
Applications are numerous: research in materials science, chemistry and physics, forensic science, semiconductor metrology, quality control of optics and flat panel displays, vitrinite coal testing, protein crystals, vision research and more.
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After the sale
Service and support
CRAIC Technologies provides service and support for its instruments worldwide. CRAIC service engineers and scientists offer instrument repair, maintenance, training and technical support for all aspects of CRAIC Technologies products.
The science library
Twenty-two explainers, written by the people who build the instruments.
Written by the engineers and scientists who build the instruments, for anyone who needs to understand the measurement before choosing one.
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