Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ QUANT’X EDXRF Spectrometer

The ARL QUANT’X EDXRF spectrometer offers the ultimate in performance, versatility, and reliability of elemental analysis. Its compact desktop design, close-coupled optics and advanced electrically cooled detectors allow for unsurpassed analytical precision in a wide dynamic range from ppm to percent elemental concentrations.

The ARL QUANT’X EDXRF has become even more powerful!  Equipped with a latest generation high performance SDD detectors, the QUANT’X handles high count rates at excellent resolutions, and brings superior performance from light to heavy elements. The ARL QUANT’X shows better sensitivities across the periodic table improving precision and detection limits by factor 2. Alternatively, the counting time can be reduced by factor four on average, increasing sample throughput significantly!

The SDD500G detector brings the latest advance in detection technology and a further performance boost to the ARL QUANT’X spectrometer. The SDD500G delivers spectacular improvements in sensitivity for light elements such as fluorine, and extends its analytical range down to carbon. 

Advanced Technology

• High performance SDD500 silicon drift detector covering fluorine to americium
• Optional: latest generation SDD500G detector covering carbon to americium
• Advanced Digital Pulse Processing (DPP) technology
• High-performance, multi-element analysis
• Optional Thermo Scientific™ UniQuant™ software for superior standardless analysis

Main Features

• Exceptional sensitivity for trace analysis
• High measurement throughput for process control
• Advanced analytical algorithms for atypical materials
• Outstanding sample-handling flexibility
• Mechanical simplicity and reliability
• Compact footprint and ease of transport for field measurements
• Rapid, easy installation and complete on-site customization
• Complete laboratory start-up package included
• Allows sample analysis in air, vacuum, and helium
• Proven hardware and all-inclusive software
• On-site, collaborative method development
• Full technical applications support
• Expertise across hundreds of applications
• Large sample chamber, camera, and wide range of collimators

Powerful, Easy to Use Thermo Scientific™ WinTrace™ Software

• Standardless and semi-standardless analysis.
• Fundamental Parameters (FP) and empirical methods with standards
• Multi-layer thickness and composition
• Unlimited elements, unlimited number of standards
• Simple results transmission to external computer or LIMS
• Support of nine languages. Capacity for more languages available
• Multiple excitation conditions with automated operation

Optional UniQuant Advanced Standardless Analysis

• Going further than any other FP analysis, the optional UniQuant program collects all emission lines of all possible elements from fluorine to americium (carbon to americium with SDD500G option). This complete spectral profile of the sample allows UniQuant to automatically correct for all possible overlap and background effects, which are especially complex in energy-dispersive spectra
• All elements are always analyzed
• Each sample’s unique physical properties, i.e. area, height, and mass are included in the calculation
• Long-term changes in X-ray tube output are corrected
• A variety of selectable reporting levels and formats present the results clearly for any type of user
• UniQuant comes completely pre-calibrated and ready for use

Recommended for solving your analytical problems in

• Forensics and trace element analysis
• Gemstones, precious metals analysis
• RoHS / WEEE screening for heavy metals in plastics
• Oil industry products
• Plastics and polymers
• Environmental applications
• Waste sludges and used oils
• Nutritional supplements in food and feed
• Soil contamination and other environmental screening
• Monitoring corrosion of cooling water circuits
• Cement, kiln feed, and alternative fuels
• Metallurgical slags and mining ores
• Catalysts and chemicals
• Thin films on filters, coatings on metals
• Aerosol particulate filters for air pollution monitoring