Optics
The heart of any spectrometer is its optical system. Prism offers a temperature controlled solid cast aluminum optical enclosure for unmatched stability. To enhance stability further, Prism (and its sister product, the Prodigy) are the first ICPs to treat the plasma source as an optical component mounting it directly to the spectrometer, not the instrument chassis. It has a 800 mm focal length that cuts stray light to 1/4th the level of other commercially available ICPs. Prism’s larger mirrors and high dispersion optics capture more light for improved sensitivity and lower detection limits. The source mirror optimizes the plasma image automatically for each view.

		Detector Prism’s C-PAD, Composite Programmable Array Detector, provides continuous wavelength coverage (175-400 nm) and specified wavelengths above 400 nm for alkali and alkali earth elements. Like the Prodigy, peak and background measurements, internal standards and inter-element corrections for all elements occur at exactly the same time with identical integration duration. C-PAD’s in-pixel processing eliminates saturation and expands the analytical dynamic range.
		RF Supply The Prism and all other Teledyne Leeman Labs ICPs are equipped with water-cooled RF supplies. This design results in extremely long lived performance. The RF supply can deliver up to two kilowatts at 40.68MHz to excite even the most difficult sample matrices.
		Options The Prism offers a choice of sample introduction systems to match sample types and solvents. The autosampler has the capability to handle as many as 120 samples as well as multiple standards and quality control checks.