The ability to use these types of Advanced Capabilities is an optional feature and solely available on Teledyne Leeman Labs’ Prodigy ICP.
- Full Frame Imaging captures a digital “photo” of a sample’s entire spectrum. This aids in the identification on unknown elements in a sample.
- The Halogen option allows the determination of chlorine and bromine at their most sensitive wavelengths in the 134 – 155 nm range.
- Laser Ablation vaporizes solid samples directly into the plasma, eliminating the need for digestion. Laser Ablation also give the ability to perform depth profiling.
- Time Resolved Analysis allows element concentrations that change with time to be measured, such as in the chromatographic separation of CrIII and CrVI
Teledyne Leeman Labs manufactures both sequential and simultaneous ICPs. Sequential ICPs analyze elements one at a time while simultaneous systems analyze them all at once.
What’s best for particular laboratory depends on the application, the number of elements and the number of samples being analyzed and the personal preference of the lab/user.
With Teledyne Leeman’s complete ICP-OES product line, you’ll be able to find the right detector to match your needs and your budget.
All of Teledyne Leeman Labs’ ICPs provide outstanding performance on day-to-day samples. It is the additional, non-routine tasks that an ICP may be called on to perform that make one system a better, more cost effective match for a laboratory than another.
For example, identifying all the elements present in an unknown sample can be done quickly with an ICP that is capable of capturing Full Frame Images.
In order to match user’s needs, we’ve built various capabilities into our ICPs. Not every lab needs all of the capabilities that each of our ICPs can offer.
The number of elements to be measured determines the sample throughput, especially when sequential system is used.
With a sequential system, the more elements determined, the more time is needed for the analysis.
When the number of elements is 10 or less, the sequential system can be a cost effective alternative to the solid state detector system and in fact, may actually be faster in some cases.
Once the number of elements measured becomes greater than ten, the simultaneous system will generally have the faster throughput.
With a simultaneous system, increasing the number of elements determined does not increase the time required for analysis
When the number of samples to be analyzed is large, the simultaneous system is the more efficient solution.
The type samples that will be analyzed have a direct effect on the plasma view best suited for the job.
Dual View gives the most flexibility while the radial view the highest tolerance to high levels of dissolved solids and resistance to EIE
effects.
Though it has advantages, Dual View is not necessarily the best view for all samples types.
Organic samples are usually best run on a radially viewed system.
The concentration range of the elements to be measured also has a considerable effect on the “right” plasma view.
Dual View will have the widest dynamic range followed by the axial and radial views.
The best and easiest way to accurately measure the alkali elements is with a radial view – either with a stand-alone radial or the radial view on a dual view system.
Axial only systems require additional preparation compared to radial and dual view systems, especially when alkali elements need to be determined.
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