Bruker Announces Breakthrough in Analytical Performance with World’s
First Handheld XRF with Silicon Drift Detector (SDD)
Bruker’s Innovative TRACERturboSD
Offers Unprecedented Specificity and Speed
KENNEWICK, Wash. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) June 25, 2008 --
Bruker AXS today announced a technology breakthrough with the
introduction of the new TRACERturboSD
(TM), the world’s first handheld X-ray
Fluorescence (XRF) instrument that uses a Silicon Drift Detector (SDD)
for dramatically improved speed, sensitivity and resolution. Bruker's
industry-leading proprietary XFlash™ SDD,
previously available only in high-performance laboratory XRF
instruments, now offers unprecedented speed and analytical specificity
when integrated into the novel handheld TRACERturboSD.
With this announcement, the Bruker AXS Handheld business, previously
known as Keymaster Technologies Inc., builds on its long tradition of
technology leadership in the handheld XRF industry that includes:
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2001 - First tube-based handheld XRF
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2004 - First vacuum handheld XRF, co-invented with NASA
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2008 – First SDD-based handheld XRF
The revolutionary TRACERturboSD
with integrated SDD offers unparalleled speed, sensitivity and energy
resolution, previously found only in more expensive laboratory systems.
Now all handheld XRF customer segments can benefit from these compelling
performance advantages in their analytical work. For example, in art
conservation and archaeology analysis the much better SDD energy
resolution offers a significant gain in specificity and information
content. In the aerospace industry, the proprietary Bruker SDD
technology enables TRACERturboSD
users to better and faster analyze sophisticated light element alloys,
even without the use of a vacuum or helium attachment. Finally, in the
general metals analysis markets the TRACERturboSD
offers higher speed, sensitivity and selectivity for many demanding
handheld XRF applications.
In addition to the new high-end TRACERturboSD,
Bruker AXS continues to offer the standard S1 Tracer™
handheld instrument with traditional SiPIN diode technology for routine
analysis. Moreover, the well-known joint Bruker-NASA vacuum technology
can be combined with the SDD for the ultimate in light-element
sensitivity in a handheld XRF instrument.
Frank Laukien, President and CEO of Bruker Corporation, said: "We are
very proud to announce this cutting-edge next-generation handheld XRF,
incorporating our proprietary XFlash SDD technology. We believe the TRACERturboSD
will have enormous analytical benefits for handheld XRF users, and it
truly represents a disruptive technology in this field."
John Landefeld, Vice President of Bruker AXS Handheld, indicated: "This
breakthrough continues our tradition of technology leadership, going
back to the initial introduction of tube-based XRF handhelds in 2001.
Following the joint NASA-Bruker development of vacuum technology for
handhelds in 2004, Bruker proves, once again, to be the technology
leader in handheld XRF instrumentation."
"The aerospace industry and the art & conservation communities will be
particularly pleased to find that high-end handheld XRF can now approach
the capabilities of laboratory systems,”
added John Patterson, Director of Marketing and Product Management of
Bruker AXS Handheld.
The TRACERturboSD is being
introduced to the aerospace industry at the Aeromat Conference &
Exposition taking place June 23-26 in Austin, Texas. Bruker will also
exhibit the new handheld SDD instrument at the Denver X-ray Conference
on August 4-8 in Denver, Colorado. For more TRACERturboSD
information, visit: www.bruker-axs.com/handheld
ABOUT BRUKER AXS
For more information about Bruker AXS and Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ:
BRKR), please visit www.bruker-axs.com
and www.bruker.com.
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