Agilent Technologies launches Cary 610 and 620 FTIR microscopes

Agilent Technologies has announced the launch of its new Cary 610 and 620 Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) microscopes, which have been enhanced for optimal performance.

The systems are designed to offer the largest field of view at the highest spatial resolution in the shortest period of time, bringing the power of synchrotron FTIR imaging to the laboratory bench.

Created for use in a wide range of applications, including biomedical, materials, polymers, food, forensics, pharmaceutical and chemical uses, their high-resolution data quality is unsurpassed by any other FTIR system.

The Cary 610 is a single-point FTIR microscope, capable of single-point mapping, while the Cary 620 is a focal plane array-based imaging device. The former can be upgraded to the latter with relative ease.

Philip Binns, Agilent's vice-president of spectroscopy products, said: "The enhancements we have made in both hardware and software provide our customers with capabilities to analyse samples that were never before possible."

Last week, the company completed the spinoff of its electronic measurement business, which will now operate as an independent organisation called Keysight Technologies.