Time-of-flight SIMS instrument upgrades

Background information

Details of the solution

Block diagram

Block diagram schematic

The user interface

Screen shot

Example SIMS maps

Below is a composite SIMS image (several fields of view assembled into a larger image) of loose fibres trapped under a hexagonal stainless steel mesh. The data was acquired with the SIMS imaging module on a Kratos TOF SIMS, with the Kore upgrade, by the Laboratory for Surface and Interface Analysis, Department of Engineering Materials group at Sheffield University. They have written their own pallette generator program, which they have been kind enough to make available to other Kore users. In the image below, maps for aluminium (yellow), chromium (blue) and Carbon (pink) have been overlayed. This image demonstrates nicely how the choice of colour scheme can make the data come alive to the eye

Chemical image of fibre sample

A brief specification

(separate data is available for the TDC unit and GRAMS/AI)

Prices

TDC in bench-top mains-powered case, with mains lead, USB cable, software drivers and data collection utilities. £7,500
GRAMS/AI with Kore SIMS spectral acquisition extensions £1,850
SIMS Chemical map acquisition application with GRAMS/AI user interface extension, SEM image display/capture program, analogue output/input card (PCI bus) and cable £1,650
Windows PC configured by Kore with all software installed £1,150
Cable adapter VG Poschenrieder electronics to Kore TDC £50
Cable adapter Kratos Prism detector pre-amp to Kore TDC £50
One day installation visit (optional) £750
(plus expenses)

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Last updated: 03 February 2010, 09:55

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