ARCTM Nanoparticle Analyzer Specifications
Spectradyne’s ARCTM provides new insight to your nanoparticle samples!
Technology
- Microfluidic resistive pulse sensing and simultaneous single-particle fluorescence
- Disposable microfluidic cartridges with nanoscale features
- No optical index contrast or other resolution issues
Key features
- Gives particle size distribution and absolute concentration, as well as single-particle fluorescence
- Particle sizes: 50 nm to 10 micron diameters
- Concentration range: approx. 104 — 1012 particles/mL
- Excitation Laser Wavelength: 488nm
- Counts & sizes individual particles
- High resolution size distributions
- Max particle detection rate: approx. 10,000 particles/s
- Can measure any material type (transparent & opaque, conducting & insulating)
- Small bench top footprint
- Instrument control interface: USB to Windows
Single use analysis cartridges
- Eliminates contamination and cleaning requirements
- Sample volume required: 2-3 microliters
- Sizing precision: < ±5%
- On-board filtering: no sample pre-filtering required
- Compact and easy-to-use cartridge design
Available microfluidic cartridge parameters:
Software
- Proprietary signal extraction method
- Streamlined process flow
- Multi-dimensional data visualization
- Rapid concentration measurements in any measured size range
- Automated particle distribution analysis with fluorescence subpopulations
Other
- Bench-top instrument with external laptop or PC
- Instrument Dimensions: 20″ wide × 20″ deep × 9″ high (500 mm wide × 500 mm deep × 155 mm high)
- Power Supply Dimensions: 11.8″ wide x 15.6″ deep x 6.1″ high (300mm wide x 396mm deep x 155mm high)
- Weight: About 30 lbs (14 kg)
- Power: 110V & 60 Hz | 220V & 50 Hz