ARL QUANT’X Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer

With ARL QUANT’X Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer, users can obtain composition data from virtually all kinds of samples in just a matter of minutes. It quantifies major, minor, and traces elements in a wide range of samples, such as bulk solids, granules, weak or pressed powders, fused beads, thin films, pastes, and liquids.

This comprehensive benchtop EDXRF (Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence) system, with standardless software and accessories, fulfills the elemental analysis requirements of main and contract laboratories, educational establishments, environmental sensing and chemicals, mining, forensics, food, cement, and metals industries.

Source: Thermo Fisher Scientific – Materials & Structural Analysis

The ARL QUANT’X EDXRF spectrometer provides the highest level of performance, versatility, and reliability for elemental analysis. Its small footprint, close-coupled optics, and sophisticated electrically cooled detectors enable unrivaled analytical precision over a broad bandwidth from ppm to percent elemental concentrations.

The ARL QUANT’X EDXRF has become all the more powerful.The QUANT’X, which is equipped with the latest generation of high-efficiency SDD detectors, can handle high-count rates at excellent resolutions and delivers better performance from light to heavy elements.

The ARL QUANT’X improves accuracy and recognition limits by a factor of two across the periodic table. Optionally, the average counting time can be decreased by a factor of four, dramatically increasing sample throughput.

The SDD500G detector adds the most recent advancements in detection technology as well as boosts the performance of the ARL QUANT’X spectrometer. The SDD500G improves sensitivity for light elements like fluorine and extends its analytical scope down to carbon.

Advanced Technology

Cutting-edge Digital Pulse Processing (DPP) technology

High-performance, multi-element analysis

High-quality SDD500 silicon drift detector covering fluorine to americium

Optional: Latest generation SDD500G detector covering carbon to americium

Optional Thermo Scientific™ UniQuant™ software for superior standardless analysis

Main Features

Compact footprint and ease of transport for field measurements

Complete laboratory start-up package included

Allows sample analysis in air, vacuum, and helium

Proven hardware and all-inclusive software

Advanced analytical algorithms for atypical materials

Exceptional sensitivity for trace analysis

High measurement throughput for process control

Rapid, easy installation and complete on-site customization

Outstanding sample-handling flexibility

Mechanical simplicity and reliability

Full technical applications support

Large sample chamber, camera, and wide range of collimators

On-site, collaborative method development

Expertise across hundreds of applications

Powerful, Easy to Use Thermo Scientific™ WinTrace™ Software

Multi-layer thickness and composition

Standardless and semi-standardless analysis

Provision of nine languages. Capacity for more languages available

Simple results transmission to external computer or LIMS

Limitless elements, unlimited number of standards

Numerous excitation conditions with automated operation

Fundamental Parameters (FP) and empirical approaches with standards

Optional UniQuant Advanced Standardless Analysis

The optional UniQuant program collects all emission lines of all possible elements from fluorine to americium, heading beyond any other FP analysis (carbon to americium with SDD500G option). UniQuant can instantaneously rectify all possible overlap and background implications, which are particularly complex in energy-dispersive spectra, thanks to the sample’s comprehensive spectral profile.

Each sample’s exclusive physical properties, i.e. area, height, and mass are comprised in the calculation

Long-term changes in X-Ray tube output are rectified

All elements are always examined

UniQuant comes pre-calibrated and ready for use

A range of selectable reporting levels and formats clearly present the outcomes for any type of user

Recommended for Solving Analytical Problems In:

Gemstones, precious metals analysis

Forensics and trace element analysis

Waste sludges and used oils

Catalysts and chemicals

Plastics and polymers

Oil industry products

Environmental uses

Observing corrosion of cooling water circuits

Metallurgical slags and mining ores

Thin films on filters, coatings on metals

Nutritional supplements in food and feed

Cement, kiln feed, and alternative fuels

Aerosol particulate filters for air pollution monitoring

RoHS / WEEE screening for heavy metals in plastics

Soil contamination and other environmental screening