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[March 2004]
Detector 'X'Celerates' Towards 1,000 Mark
PANalytical (Almelo, Holland) says that its high speed X'Celerator detector has proven its effectiveness in countless application areas and now has an installed base rapidly approaching the 1,000 mark.
The system's Real Time Multiple Strip (RTMS) technology provided at the time of its launch up to a 100-fold increase in acquisition speed compared with other detectors then available. In addition, this new technology created the possibility of collecting powder diffraction data approaching a quality only attainable in the past with synchrotron X-ray sources.
PANalytical has introduced dedicated X'Celerator accessories designed to enhance its performance still further. These include special programmable slits to maintain optimum sample irradiation and hence correct peak intensities over the full range of incident angles. Recently introduced has been a new range of focusing mirrors that create, instead of a parallel beam, a convergent beam that focuses on the detector. This is said to bring considerable advantages when measuring samples in transmission geometry, such as powder samples in glass capillaries or on thin foils.
The company added: "These developments have helped put powder XRD firmly on the map as an analytical tool, with laboratories and industries throughout the world now recognising its power in solving a large variety of analytical problems and in revealing structural details that were previously impossible to observe".
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