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An amazing world of applications available to handheld LIBS and XRF
SciAps, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of handheld XRF and LIBS analyzers, able to measure virtually every element, in almost any material. These breakthrough instruments have been expanding applications for portable, in-field measurements of elements, minerals and compounds in every major industry around the world. Sign up for our e-mail list to be the first to hear about this expanding world of handheld analysis.
Need an academic loaner? We frequently loan handheld analyzers for a few weeks or a month to academic researchers from the U.S. and Canada, so that they can perform a study or field analysis anywhere in the world. LIBS is often a preferred technique, especially for students, since operators do not have to deal with the regulatory complexities of X-ray fluorescence analyzers. And our accompanying ProfileBuilder software provides operators complete freedom to modify parameters. You’re not limited to factory-imposed calibrations or unchangeable multi-variant techniques. Contact us with a brief description of what you want to measure.
Soil nutrient detection for precision agriculture with handheld LIBS
This page was updated on September 18th, 2020
Handheld LIBS used to measure beryllium in nuclear waste
This page was updated on June 11th, 2020
Optimisation of fast quantification of fluorine content using handheld LIBS
This page was updated on June 16th, 2020
Expanding Global Soil Management with SciAps Handheld LIBS
This page was updated on June 16th, 2020
Technical Note: Handheld LIBS Provides a Fast and Easy Method to Trace Gold
Handheld LIBS is relevant to gold traceability, and is simple to use in the field. A new study published as a Technical Note in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) demonstrates LIBS as a fast and easy method to …
LIBS as an Emerging Analytical Tool for Mineral Exploration
Breaking news: Handheld LIBS provides field capability to acquire low‐cost geochemical analyses in real time. A just-released publication in Minerals, in special issue Novel Methods and Applications for Mineral Exploration, the authors demonstrate how LIBS is ideally suited for field exploration …
Analysis of Rare Earth Elements in Uranium Using Handheld Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Breaking news: You can analyze concentrations of rare earth metals (REEs) with the SciAps Z-300 handheld LIBS. In a just-released publication in Applied Spectroscopy, author Ben Manard and his Los Alamos National Laboratory colleagues use the SciAps Z-300 handheld LIBS …
SciAps Analyzers: SciAps flagship Z-200 LIBS (laser) analyzer offers rapid, accurate results on a variety of alloy materials, and the Z-200 C+ was the first handheld analyzer to measure carbon content in steels and stainless. SciAps has set a new performance standard with their latest series of XRF analyzers, the smallest, lightest weight and fastest XRF analyzers ever made.
About SciAps: Headquartered near Boston, Mass., the SciAps marketing and product development teams are veterans of Niton, Innov-X, ThermoFisher Scientific, and Olympus, bringing decades of experience to developing and supporting handheld analyzers. Global customers include manufacturers, pipeline engineers, safety and security specialists, researchers, the academic community, scrap recyclers, and the mining industry.