Our key products include state-of-the-art X-ray detectors, high-resolution atomic microscopes, precise Raman spectroscopy systems, sophisticated scientific cameras, and powerful Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) equipment. These instruments are engineered to provide deep insights into material properties, facilitate comprehensive analysis, and drive innovation across various applications.
With our expertise and advanced technology, we are committed to helping researchers and industry professionals achieve their scientific goals and push the boundaries of material science.
Our application experts are available to consult with you on solving your material science-related challenges.
Talk to our ExpertTo meet current technological challenges, structural materials, such as steels, superalloys and ceramics, need to be stronger, lighter, cheaper and lend themselves to re-use and recycling. This drives your need for a deeper understanding of materials structure, chemistry and properties.
Whether you need to control product quality by analysing non-metallic inclusions, understand the structure of alloys and ceramics, control the quality of finished goods, or analyse texture and cleanliness to develop high-performance steels and advanced alloys, our solutions enable you to achieve your goals.
When producing metals, it is crucial to understand the quality and cleanliness of the material, EDS allows the automated detection and classification of inclusions and provide a quality rating according to a range of national and international standards.
EBSD can be used to characterise structural properties such as grain size and orientation as well as stresses and strains within the material. Our Symmetry EBSD detector is the perfect solution for any materials challenge, as the world’s first CMOS based EBSD camera it combines speed and sensitivity to acquire accurate results quickly.
AFM Tools for Piezoelectrics and Ferroelectrics Research: Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is an atomic force microscopy technique that can be used to characterize the electromechanical coupling underlying the functionality of many material systems, including piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, and certain biological materials.
Asylum Research is recognized as the world leader in commercial PFM technology by providing crosstalk-free, high sensitivity PFM measurements using a variety of advanced and proprietary measurement techniques and capabilities.
Raman spectroscopy, as well as photoluminescence spectroscopy, have been used to characterize 2D materials since their discovery. Combining this with confocal microscopy enhances the knowledge gained from those materials by high-resolution imaging capabilities. This allows the determination and location of variations in composition as well as doping or strain states.
In addition, complementary techniques such as second-harmonic generation microscopy or atomic force microscopy can further enhance the knowledge gained from such samples. Finally, the evaluation of the sample features under cryogenic temperatures and/or high magnetic fields can additionally assist the deeper understanding of the samples.
Andor’s highly modular, high sensitivity spectroscopy solutions provide versatile research platforms that effectively address analysis challenges encountered in Raman spectroscopy, encompassing various sample types and geometry, photon regimes, and (multimodal) experimental setups, from macro to micro-scale.
Accurate and traceable analysis of minute quantities of materials is key to successful forensic investigations and the better understanding of environmental conditions. Our highly sensitive instruments are used to identify contaminants in the environment, such as asbestos and particle pollution in air.
Determination of Fat, Oil and Grease (FOG) for waste water, Flourine contents in waste : Our benchtop NMR analyser, MQC+, provides a solvent-free alternative that is quick and easy to perform, simple to calibrate and requires no additional sample preparation. As such it is ideal for non-specialist laboratory personnel. MQC+ also provides a fast, simple and accurate method of measuring fluorine in Industrial and Construction waste in both liquid and dry forms.
WITec imaging systems enable comprehensive sample analysis to provide a thorough characterization of the physical and chemical properties of various samples in forensics. it provides information on the chemical composition as well as the spatial distribution of the components. Raman imaging being a non-destructive, non-contact and non-contaminating analysis technique.
Gunshot residue (GSR) is produced from the condensation of the vapour cloud which is generated from the primer and propellant when a bullet is fired from a gun. Oxford Instruments provides hardware and software that meets the international standard ASTM E1588, and which automates the process of finding the particles on an SEM stub, by measuring their composition and imaging, and measuring their morphology.
Ever increasing environmental demands are being placed on energy generation, which is leading to diversification of energy sources towards building a low carbon economy. This is driving interest in battery technology and alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar, as well as increasing demands on improving traditional powers sources such as coal and nuclear. Whether you are developing new materials for improved battery performance, fabricating materials for improved solar efficiency, understanding performance of steels in the nuclear industry, or characterising mineral impurities for clean coal combustion, our solutions enable you to achieve your goals.
The number one concern in the nuclear industry is operating safety and to ensure safety it is vital to understand the behaviour of materials involved and potential failure mechanisms. Our x-ray sources such as EDS, EBSD are used in the tools which verify the material compositions used in process refineries and nuclear reactors. This is critical for quality control and safety.
Characterizing solar cell materials involves examining them at the material, failure analysis, and device levels. Our AFMs feature an extensive electrical characterization suite and customizable software and hardware, making them industry leaders. Additionally, our EDS and EBSD detectors provide detailed structural and compositional analysis of advanced solar cell materials.
Andor spectrographs, high sensitivity NIR-SWIR detectors and cryostat solutions provide seamlessly configurable workhorse platforms to cater for setups with multiple laser wavelengths or spectroscopy modalities (e.g. Raman coupled with Photoluminescence, Absorption or non-linear spectroscopies).
BEX imaging with Unity detector is the ideal solution for a complex geological material, as it acquires and displays both BSE and X-ray information simultaneously. As one moves around the sample, elements are identified and displayed as maps in real time, making it possible to rapidly build up an understanding of what elements are in the sample and their distribution.
Determining the minor and trace element concentrations in minerals and rocks is important in the fields of geological research, planetary research, natural hazard monitoring, mineral exploration, and mining. WDS with AZtecWave can be used to measure elements that are present in concentrations that are too low to measure accurately using EDS, or where overlaps between X-ray energy lines for different elements exist.
NMR analysis uncovers detailed insights into rock formation properties, pore structures, and fluid retention, optimizing decision-making for more efficient and sustainable mining operations. Analyses enables not just enhanced oil recovery (EOR) but also characterisation of the carbon storage and sequestration capabilities (CCS, CCUS) of rocks, reservoirs, and other materials.
The chemicals industry produces an incredibly large and diverse set of products that can be found in every aspect of our daily lives. Converting raw materials such as oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals into more than 70,000 different products - From industrial chemicals, polymers, and catalysts to chemicals used in the production of textiles, paper and engineering to consumer chemicals used in detergents, soaps and toiletries. Discover how Oxford Instruments equipment is used throughout the chemicals lifecycle from research and discovery to development and production through to failure analysis of products in everyday use.
Benchtop NMR spectroscopy has evolved to become an extremely powerful research tool across organic, inorganic, physical, polymer and bio chemistry research. From synthesising new drug molecules to characterising next generation battery electrolyte performance - benchtop NMR is now a simple and versatile tool both for individual chemistry research groups and core or central facilities.
Polymers are common and widely studied in materials research. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a valuable tool for analyzing polymers, offering precise measurements of film topography and a range of techniques to explore various properties. Asylum Research AFMs can investigate molecular chain arrangements, domain modulus, and conductivity in polymers.
Catalysts are essential in various technologies, including emission control and fuel cells, and their effectiveness depends on their size, structure, and elemental composition. EDS facilitates this correlation by analyzing particle size, shape, and elemental composition. AZtecFeature particle analysis software and high-sensitivity SEM/TEM EDS detectors automate and streamline this analysis, storing important parameters for further investigation and providing detailed mapping of elemental distribution in individual particles.
The generation and detection of light is key for materials characterisation, new communication technologies and a vast range of optical devices. Whether it is the fabrication of novel LEDs and laser diodes, the characterisation of these devices, or the use of optical systems involving cryostats, cameras or spectrometers in research, our solutions enable you to achieve your goals.
Andor's product portfolio incorporates a range of high-performance detector solutions for Astronomy, from faster time resolution sCMOS and EMCCD cameras to slow scan CCDs.
Andor’s modular spectroscopy platforms are designed to tackle a wide range of photonics application challenges spanning Chemistry, Catalysis, Materials Science, Analytical Chemistry, Photochemistry and Photophysics. It provides essential tools for the study of structures at the nano-, micro- and macro-scale based on probing techniques including Raman.
Furthermore, Andor’s Optistat range of Optical Cryostats can be integrated into spectroscopy set-ups to provide precision control of sample temperatures from 4 K up to 500 K.
To meet increasing environmental standards and food safety and security in a rapidly growing world requires advanced methods of characterisation. Whether you need to identify contaminants in food production, improve fungicide effectiveness, ensure supply chain authenticity or analyse nutritional values of food, our solutions enable you to achieve your goals.
EDS delivers fast and accurate detection of toxic chemicals like cadmium and arsenic in foods, and heavy metals like lead and mercury in soils. It identifies contaminants and their sources, and can analyze the elemental composition of various materials to identify unknown contaminants.
Our MQC+ benchtop NMR system allows measurements of oil, water, fluorine and solid fat in a huge range of samples. Analysis takes minutes, with ease of use and minimal sample preparation, this allows a high volume of samples to be analysed accurately, quickly and efficiently.
For a more detailed understanding of nutrients in food and especially their uptake in the human body, AFM can be used to study the uptake of dietary fats and especially the role of galactolipids in retarding lipolysis of dietary fats.
Calculated mono- and poly-unsaturated composition of a set of 30 pure olive and hazelnut oils from Pulsar NMR spectra
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