The Analyte Excite offers excimer technology at 193 nm with all the analytical capabilities you require, and a price you can afford. The Excite delivers finely controlled, “homogenizer-flat” ablations with high sensitivity and split second response. Fire-on-the-fly lasing that is synchronized to the stage motion, combined with fast washout ablation cells, make precision depth profiling of spots, lines and areas possible and enables high spatial resolution elemental mapping.
The Excite is equipped with a high definition, color GigE camera on a high magnification, optical zoom, video-microscope capable of resolving 2 μm features. Transmitted, reflective and ring illumination, cross polarizers plus software selectable camera settings give the user enhanced viewing capabilities. The combination of ultra-short pulse length and 193 nm wavelength is unsurpassed in coupling efficiency.
The Excite ablates all materials, from opaque to highly transparent, including delicate powders, hard quartz and resilient carbonates with depth penetration in the tens of nanometers per shot. The beam energy profile is homogenized to ensure uniform ablations across the entire range of spot sizes and on a wide range of materials.
Key Features:
- Best value in excimer laser ablation systems
- Ultra-short 193 nm wavelength
- Ultrashort < 5 ns
- Surplus fluence ablates all materials
- Sealed Gas Cabinet
- Optical homogenization of the laser beam for uniform flat ablations
- Synchronized “fire-on-the-fly” lasing for the ultimate depth control during ablation
- 100 × 100 mm stage travel as standard
- Independent video and lasing optical element for optimal viewing and crater quality
- Aperture imaged spots ranging from 1.0 μm to >150 μm
- 30 apertures as standard; custom masks available
- HelEx II Active 2-Volume Cell Compatible
Application Areas
- Environmental Analysis
- Geological Analysis
- Isotope Ratios
- Transparent glasses
- Geochronology
- Forensics
- Isotope Fingerprinting
- Imaging/Mapping
- Depth Profiling
- (Paleo-)thermometry
Example Materials
- Calcite / Aragonite
- Transparent Glasses
- Quartz
- Bone / Fossils
- Otoliths and Forams
- Zircons
- Ceramics
- Plastics
- Thin Coatings
- Various Minerals
Chew et al – 2017 – Rapid hi-res U-Pb LA ICP MS age mapping of zircon David M. Chew, Joseph A. Petrus, Gavin G. Kenny and Niall McEvoy | J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2017, 32, 262 
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