Andor Launches Ixon Ultra - Market Leading EMCCD Now Over 60 Percent Faster
The iXon Ultra, launching on the popular 512x512 back-illuminated sensor format, has been fundamentally re-engineered to facilitate overclocking of the pixel readout speed to an unprecedented 17MHz, delivering a maximum frame rate of 56 fps, whilst maintaining single photon sensitivity and superb quantitative stability. Furthermore, Andor’s unique Cropped Sensor Mode can be employed to further boost frame rates from a user defined sub-region, for example pushing a 128 x 128 area to 595 fps.
Additional new features of the iXon Ultra include USB connectivity, a lower noise CCD mode and an additional Camera Link output, offering a unique ability to directly intercept data for ‘on the fly’ processing, ideally suited to applications such as adaptive optics. Simultaneously, the iXon Ultra maintains all the advanced performance attributes and rich customer requested feature set that have defined the iXon range to date, such as deep vacuum cooling to -100 0C, extremely low spurious noise and EM Gain calibration. Count Convert functionality allows real time data acquisition in units of electrons or incident photons and OptAcquire facilitates one-click optimisation of this versatile camera to a variety of application conditions.
Dr Colin Coates, Imaging Product Manager within Andor Technology, said; "EMCCD technology excels in applications that require low light sensitivity at speed, and it remains the superior technology for dynamic, ultra-low light applications. Andor have made great strides over the years in pushing sensitivity to the limit through minimizing noise sources, but we felt there was still some room for innovation on the speed front, so we took up that challenge. We see the enhanced frame rate performance of the iXon Ultra being well utilised across the majority of EMCCD-enabled applications, for example in single molecule detection, super-resolution microscopy, astronomy, ion signalling and cell motility measurements.”
For more information, please visit www.andor.com/ixonultra
Andor enables its customers to break new ground by performing light measurements previously considered impossible. With a portfolio spanning high-performance scientific digital cameras, spectrographs, and confocal microscopy systems, Andor is a world leader in scientific imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems. More information about Andor Technology PLC (LSE: AND) is available at www.andor.com.
For more information, please contact Dr. Colin Coates on +44 (0)28 9023 7126, email press@andor.com, or visit www.andor.com/ixonultra
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