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Thursday, June 9 2011

Solar Cell Inspection with SWIR camera

Thursday, June 9 2011 - Newsletter

PSL InGaAs short wave infrared (SWIR) camera  used for screening solar panels. Detects voids cracks and  dead areas through sliced / bulk silicon. Captures faint electroluminescence and photoluminescence emissions from individual photovoltaic cells.

Extended SWIR detector response allows spectroscopic analysis up to 2.2 micron wavelength.

High resolution cooled SWIR cameras


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Tuesday, June 7 2011

Company newsletter June 2011

Tuesday, June 7 2011 - Newsletter

New Marketing office Grenoble St Geoirs France 

Photonic Science has opened our new Marketing office in St Geoirs next to the Grenoble airport. Our new extended office will have a complete on site X-ray demonstration system for client training. In order to better service our European partners, the team in Grenoble comprises of Marketing, Software Support, Application Engineers & Administration. 

New Project for the expansion of the Photonic Science UK Manufacturing plant

Resulting from both the expansion of our product range and the increase in demand, Photonic Science has started construction to extend the main UK manufacturing plant in Robertsbridge, East Sussex. This will enable us to meet the continued increase in demand of our products by effectively doubling our production capacity. Here is an aerial view of the bulilding work taken from the company plane. The opening of the New offices is planned for Oct 2011. 

New Scientific Publication in collaboration with the Institut Laue-Langevin Langevin 

CYCLOPS – a reciprocal-space explorer based on CCD neutron detectors -Journal of Applied Crystallography 
Bachir Ouladdiaf, John Archer, John R. Allibon, Philippe Decarpentrie Marie-H´el`ene Lem´ee-Cailleau, Juan Rodr´ıguez-Carvajal, Alan W. Hewat, Scott York, Daniel Brau and Garry J. McIntyre J. Appl. Cryst. (2011). 44, 392–397

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Wednesday, April 20 2011

Exhibition list

Wednesday, April 20 2011 - Events

SPIE Photonics West, 21 - 26 January 2012, The Moscone Center
San Francisco, California, USA

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Microscopy & Microanalysis 2011 Meeting, 7-11th August 2011,

Nashville Tennessee


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BCA Spring Meeting, University of Keele, 11-14th April 2011



http://crystallography.org.uk/bca-spring-meeting-2010



German Polish Conference on Crystal Growth GPCCG 2011

March 14 - 18, 2011 in Frankfurt (Oder)/Slubice

http://www.dgkk.de/GPCCG-2011/

ESRF user's meeting, Grenoble, 8-9th February 2011







Friday, December 10 2010

Very High Resolution X-ray & TEM CCD Systems

Friday, December 10 2010 - Products

Very High Resolution X-ray & TEM CCD Systems


LAUE Diffraction System

· High brilliance >10^8 ph/mm/s
· Back scattered geometry
· Real time crystal orientation <0.3 degree accuracy



Imaging & Topography System

· Parallel monochromatic beam <10microns resolution
· 6 axis motorized goniometer, scanning / 2D acquisition


Computed Tomography System

· Nano & microfocus source
· 11 to 50 megapixel resolution
· 3D reconstruction using multi GPU and <1m accuracy
· Upgrade TEM / X-ray scanner



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Thursday, December 9 2010

Cooled High Resolution Camera Systems

Thursday, December 9 2010 - Products

Cooled High Resolution Camera Systems


UV,Visible to NIR and SWIR

· InGaAs 640x512

· EMCCD 1002x1004

· Low noise CMOS 1920x1080

· Dual tap mega pixel 4008x2672

 


Gated intensified


· Megapixel CCD & CMOS read out

· 200Khz repetition rate

· 3ns minimum gate width

 


Multi spectral /multi camera systems

· Extended field of view up to 360 degree coverage

· Extended spectral response from

200nm up to 2200nm

 


Applications

· Photoluminescence for solar cells

· High temperature SWIR thermography

· Silicon wafer / mask inspection

· Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

· Fluorescence lifetime detection

· Confocal microscopy imaging

· Single molecule detection/ TIRF

· Tomography

· Astronomy

· Hyperspectral imaging

· Opthalmology

· Particle Imaging Velocimetry

· Laser range gated imaging

· Low light level surveillance

· ...

 

Photonic Science ltd

Tel France+ 33 (0) 4 76 93 57 20                      Email:info@photonic-science.com

Tel UK+ 44 (0) 1580 88 11 99                            http://www.photonic-science.com

Thursday, October 22 2009

New X-ray Beam Alignment Camera

Thursday, October 22 2009 - Products

 

X-ray Alignment camera

The X-ray miniFDI allows high resolution beam characterization down to less than 10 microns resolution and 0.5 % accuracy in terms of signal to noise ratio.

 

The camera offers 8.9x 6.7mm active area. A custom scintillator is deposited onto the camera in order to allow operation from 100 eV up to 100 keV.

 

The camera delivers up to 13 fps at full resolution or >40 fps in binning 2x2 allowing real time beam monitoring routine.

 

A built in shutter allows smear free, shutterless acquisition even with exposure time down to micro second range.

 

Higher frame rate in excess of 100fps can be achieved when used in local sub area mode or line scan mode.

 

 High resolution beam analysis is carried via a remote GUI interface thanks to device server driver control.

 

The cameras have a 16-bit acquisition mode and a fast 12-bit readout mode. Near single photon counting sensitivity can be achieved in binning mode.

For gated applications, intensified version also available, quotation on request.

 

Contact

Daniel BRAU Sales & Marketing Director -

Photonic Science Limited Email : Info@photonic-science.com

Tel : +33 (0) 4 76 93 57 20 Fax : +33 (0) 4 76 93 57 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

         X-ray Alignment camera

 

Tuesday, September 22 2009

Very High Resolution VHR X-ray CCD offers 11 up to 32 Mega pixel resolution

Tuesday, September 22 2009 - Products

PSL delivers a new generation of complete X-ray CCD systems for home lab and synchrotron facilities.

These cameras are routinely used for highly demanding imaging applications such as Nano/Micro CT, Phase Contrast Diffraction, Enhanced and Coherent Diffraction.

The VHR camera is available with input sizes ranging from 18 mm x 12 mm with 3.7 micron pixel size up to 132mm x 104mm with 21.4 micron pixel size.

Single crystal and structured scintillator design allows to cope with both low and high energy operations without compromising on resolution.

GigE or Camera link interfaces will enable a fast data transfer to PC whilst maintaining 100% continuous duty cycle acquisition. Full software development kit/socket/SPEC drivers provided as standard.

 

 

 

 

 

Tungsten filament rod,phase contrast edge              Osteocytes cells, 100 micron bone section,                                                         enhancement @ 500nm resolution,                           500nm resolution,30sec exposure                                                                                        30sec exposure using 40 kV 50µA                           using 40 kV 100µA                                                                                                                   nanofocus source.                                                    nanofocus source.

Camera VHR 11M 1:1                                                   Camera VHR 11M 1:1

 

Contact

Daniel BRAU Sales & Marketing Director - Photonic Science Limited Email : Info@photonic-science.com

Tel : +33 (0) 4 76 93 57 20 Fax : +33 (0) 4 76 93 57 22 New Web Site http://www.photonic-science.com

   




Monday, September 21 2009

Real time Laue CCD camera solutions for crystal orientation

Monday, September 21 2009 - Products

Turnkey Digital Laue detector allows high throughput crystal characterisation within an hour from unpacking.

The camera allows unique back scattered geometry collection and ultimate alignment accuracy down to 0.3 degree.

Efficient beam delivery on sample enables near real time diffraction pattern recording.

Combined with motorised sample rotation, the system brings simpler and more flexible crystal orientation routines.

The acquisition software delivers ready to be indexed digital images from PC, to Linux remote controlled machines. 

Existing Laue set ups can be upgraded with turnkey solutions including : beam delivery X-ray source, collimators, goniometer / sample holder and system installation / integration.

 












                                                                                                                                                     10 seconds  exposure 50kV,   1 mA Mo source

                                   images courtesy of ESRF                            


Monday, August 31 2009

Shows 2009

Monday, August 31 2009 - Events

PSL engineers will be available for discussion at the following conference:

·         Denver X-ray conference from 27th to the 31th of July  2009 http://www.dxcicdd.com/

 

·         ICXOM20 is the 20th International Congress on X-ray Optics and Microanalysis, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 14th to 18th 2009. http://icxom20.fzk.de/

 

·         Night Vision show: 30th of sept to the 1st of October Washington. http://www.shephard.co.uk/events/20/night-vision-eos-2009/

 

 

Monday, August 24 2009

X-ray Beam delivery solutions

Monday, August 24 2009 - Products

Poly / Mono capillary and Doubly Curved Crystal X-ray optics

 

XOS and Photonic Science sign a European agency agreement covering the supply of X-ray optic / monochomator and integrated XBEAM microfocus sources to laboratories / synchrotrons / OEMs wishing to upgrade their current set up.

 

Polycapillary X-ray optics  allows faster and more flexible data collection routines over 100eV up to 40keV energy range. Thanks to high solid angle capture (few degrees) / optimised beam size (10m up to 10mm) / output focal range combination (2-500mm).  Over 1000 fold flux density gain (versus pinhole aperture) can be obtained depending on 2D point to point or point to parallel geometry used.

High spectral resolution / high sensitivity (down to ppb) requirements can be met using a doubly curved crystals instead of polycapillary X-ray optics.

 

  •  Energy and wavelength spectroscopy / fluorescence
  •  Monochromatic micro XRF
  •  2D Elemental mapping / analysis
  •  Stress / Strain
  •  Powder diffraction / Crystalline Structure / Phase Determination / Texture Analysis
  •  Protein Crystallography / Single crystal diffraction
  •  X-ray microscopy / Imaging

 

Integrated polycapillary optics with microfocus X-ray source

XBEAM microfocus source incorporated into PSL X-ray LAUE system allows 50x flux increase compared to standard X-ray film collection.    

 

  •  Near real time LAUE diffraction / micro diffraction set up upgrade
  •  Motorised goniometer allowing automated sample orientation
  •  Very high resolution detectors allowing strain analysis studies
  •  W, Cu, Cr, Co, Mo Rh, Ag targets on demand

 

 

   

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday, March 9 2009

Laue Neutron & X-Ray System

Monday, March 9 2009 - Products

High resolution Laue Neutron & X-ray imaging system — the dual camera system allows a digital backscattered Laue diffraction pattern to be recorded, with a resolution of 2080x1392 pixels and 12-bit digitisation at 10MHz. The X-ray beam passes through the camera in a straight lead lined tube of 16mm diameter, to protect the camera system from scattered X-rays. The image areas allow some overlap to permit image stitching and provide a single continuous image with an input dimension of 156mm x 104.4mm. The system is supplied in a unified housing with mounting plate. The x-ray scintillator screen is GdOS:Tb 0.1mm thick with a peak emission at 550nm to match peak QE response of the CCD. Other scintillators are available to order. The input scintillator is covered by a thin aluminium light exclusion window. The camera features a variety of functions such as binning, sub area readout and 16 bit acquisition mode, which apply to the single combined image.

PSL new microCT system unveils details down to 400nm

Monday, March 9 2009 - Products

The instrument records a series of radiographs for different angular positions of bone, foams, composite, polymers down to sub micron resolution.

Continuous rotation allows acquisition of a full data set within minutes and 3D reconstruction to be performed on the fly thanks to massively parallel calculation on multi GPU machines.

Phase contrast edge enhancement technique can also be used for refining 3D tomographic reconstructions.

Tuesday, March 3 2009

Successfull installation at the ILL

Tuesday, March 3 2009 - Events

PSL installs a new mosaic detector made of 16 intensified lens coupled cameras.

Photonic Science Limited - Scientific detector systems