HYPERION 3000
The HYPERION 3000 microscope is an advanced infrared microspectroscopy system capable of single point measurements, line maps, area maps, and imaging. This is made possible by its unique ability to switch software controlled between a single element detector and a focal plane array.
An all reflective optical system is used to image the sample onto the focal plane array, completely eliminating chromatic aberration. In addition to combining the advantages of focal plane array imaging and conventional infrared microspectroscopy, the HYPERION 3000 microscope offers other important features:
- Outstanding signal-to-noise ratios with a mid-band MCT detector (cutoff of 600 cm-1).
- Single element detectors are mounted with the detector fore-optic, on pinned baseplates. This allows users to change detectors, even those with very small elements. Transfer optics are also available for liquid Helium cooled bolometers (for F-IR measurements).
- Patented grazing angle objective, with excellent sensitivity and polarized light capabilities.
- Mapping stage with (180 cm x 100 mm oder 75 x 50 mm) travel, and 1 µm accuracy.
- Operating range from the FIR through the near UV.
- Computer switched visible and IR modes, as well as simultaneous viewing and infrared measurement.
- User interchangeable aperture types: Knife-edge, View-through knife-edge, iris, and circular.
- ATR objective and ATR imaging to result in highest lateral resolution possible
- Possibility of combine imaging and mapping for measuring larger areas at the highest resolution available
The powerful OPUS/Video software allows an easy selection of the region of interest and a convenient control of the data acquisition.
For data processing and data reduction purposes, all standard manipulation and evaluation functions are 3D-capable. Using OPUS/3D the data can be visualized as diverse 2D and/or 3D-false color plots. Usually, signal intensities at IR-frequencies, characteristic for certain functional groups, are plotted versus the imaged sample area.
For multivariate analysis of the imaging data, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is available in OPUS 3D. This method involves a procedure transforming a number of possibly correlated variables into a smaller number of independent variables, called principal components.
The spectra, which should be used for component decomposition, can be selected interactively. Besides the principal components (PC) and their similarity to the original spectra (loadings) also a Red Green Blue (RGB) image is created, combining the information from three singular components.
Macro imaging with almost any traditional sampling accessory is possible with the macrochamber. The IMAC utilizes the portable FPA from the HYPERION™ 3000 to allow infrared chemical imaging of the sample. The video image and sample analysis area ratio is 1:1.