Component Cleanliness Analysis

SPE-i raman.ID + metal.ID

“Cleanliness is defined as the contamination level of a component’s surface.” The SPE-i raman.ID + metal.ID, using remarkable orthogonal spectroscopy analyses, can now identify unknown material, chemical elements, chemical structure, and organic/inorganic particles at a throughput rate of 50 - 300 particles per hour. Inorganic particles cause severe damage and component lifetime reduction, therefore the capability to is significant asset . This feature alone could lower warranty costs, decrease failures in the field, maximize customer satisfaction as well as increase output. The device icludes a myriad of other features as well.

Application

Designed for routine applications

Image analysis -> number, size and shape

By illumination of the particles, fully automatic image analysis and LIBS spectroscopy provides the Single Particle Explorer (SPE-i raman.ID+metal.ID):

Number, size:
Feret's diameter (longest dimension)

Shape: length/ width, angularity, fibrousness, area

Chemical composition: Chemical elements + particle identification

raman.ID -> chemical structure

raman.ID gives fingerprint spectra of the vibrations of all molecules. With the integrated unique spectra interpretation you can quickly and reliably identify organic and inorganic particle materials by their spectra without specialized knowledge. The fingerprint spectra is extremely sensitive to the chemical structures to identify inorganic and organic materials.

Particle size and chemical distribution

Raman Spectroscopy delivers within 5-60 s reliable spectra of the particles larger than 2 µm. It is non-destructive and virtually free of sample preparation. Depending on your particle material and your specific application you can choose between 532 nm, 785 nm or 1064 nm laser excitation wavelength - especially when you use our filtr.AID membrane filters.

metal -> chemical elements

metal.ID gives spectra of the chemical elements. You can quickly and reliably identify inorganic and metallic materials by their spectroscopic fingerprints without specialized knowledge.

metal.ID is Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, LIBS. It is sensitive, ultra fast (1 s / Particle) and virtually free of sample preparation. It gives spectra of the several elements e.g.: Al, Au, Ag, Ba, Ca, Cr, Cu, Co, Fe, Li, Mn, Mg, Ni, Pb, Sn, Sr, Si, Sb, Ti, V, Zr, Zn as well as of hundreds of mixtures and alloys.

Particle size and chemical distribution

Reporting in 18 minutes

SPE automatically generates reports about particle size distribution, chemical structure and chemical elements results.