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X-Max EDS Detector

Announcing the launch of X-Max Large Area EDS SDD
 
Once again, Oxford Instruments has revolutionized EDS!
 
The new X-Max Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) offers users over TEN times the solid angle of conventional EDS detectors... without compromising on performance.
 
20mm², 50mm², and 80mm² SDDs with identical world-beating analytical performance.   Now you can have count rate, imaging, and analytical performance all at the same time:
  • Up to 80mm² active area
  • Count rates > 500,000 cps
  • Throughput > 200,000 cps
  • MnKα typically 125eV
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100 years of liquid helium

100 Year of Liquid Helium

This year the low temperature physics community is celebrating 100 years since helium was first liquefied... now get ready for the future.
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New packages for NMR rock core measurements

GeoSpec - Rock Core Analysers

Oxford Instruments has concluded an exclusive technical and commercial agreement with Green Imaging Technologies Inc., (GIT) of New Brunswick, Canada, to make GIT’s rock core NMR software available on Oxford Instruments’ GeoSpec range of NMR instruments. This new software is designed to make routine NMR rock core measurements simple, by taking full control of the instrument hardware and automatically generating BVI, FFI, CBW, effective porosity and T1 and T2 cut-off values, and NMR permeability.
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X-MET5100 - Light Years Ahead!

X-MET5100 XRF Analyzer

Oxford Instruments launches a revolutionary hand-held XRF analyzer with Silicon Drift Detector

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Oxford Instruments flies to the moon!

Space technology applications xrf

India's first spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1 was sucessfuly launched on a mission to study the chemical elements of the moon's surface and solar activity.  On board is an Oxford Instruments PentaPIN X-ray detector, designed in collaboration with the University of Helsinki
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Free Webinar : Open up a new world of analysis

Webinar : Open up a new world of analysis

The introduction of silicon drift detectors (SDDs) changed EDS analysis forever. The introduction of new large area detectors by Oxford Instruments has revolutionised it.  Join leading professionals as they discuss the impact these new large area detectors will have on SEM analysis and find out how they could help you.

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Lawrence Berkeley Labs order 6 systems

Six plasma etch and deposition tools for leading centre of excellence and facility for nanoscience.
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