PIKE Technologies products

ShakIR accessories provide a fast and simple method of mixing and grinding samples for diffuse reflectance sampling and in preparation for making KBr pellets.

The ShakIR accessory provides a fast, simple and inexpensive method of mixing and grinding samples for diffuse reflectance sampling and in preparation for making KBr pellets.  The ShakIR thoroughly mixes and pulverizes the sample within seconds. The accessory provides electronic control for precise and reproducible setting of grinding time up to 95 seconds. The protective shield provides security to grinder operation. The ShakIR construction and weight offer long-term, reliable operation, minimized vibration and noise.

The μMAX™ is design for IR microanalysis, providing high performance sampling at low-cost with exceptional ease of use. The μMAX fits into the sample compartment of most FTIR spectrometers. The compact, planar optical layout minimizes the pathlength of the IR beam and thereby maximizes IR throughput. This in-compartment infrared microscope may be configured for transmission, reflection, and ATR sampling.

The S84 Microscope Heat Stage is designed for spectroscopic analysis and monitoring of small samples from ambient to 500 °C. For transmission and reflection measurement, the accessory can be located directly on the sampling stages of most FTIR and Raman microscopes. It may also be used for transmission measurements when placed in the sample compartment of the spectrometer. Inert or reaction gas may be flowed through the stage to create a custom environment.

The Beam Condenser Accessories, available in 4X or 6X beam de-magnification, provide all the functionality of these basic systems with exceptional optical design and easy access to the sampling area. The unique enclosed optics provide a purged environment. Each offer a large working area to accept many types of transmission sampling accessories, including high pressure diamond cells, liquid cells, mull cells, and miniature micro holders.

The PIKE MIRacle is a universal ATR sampling accessory for analysis of solids, liquids, pastes, gels, and intractable materials. In its most popular configuration, it is a single reflection ATR accessory with high IR throughput which makes it ideal for sample identification and QA/QC applications. Easily changeable crystal plate design enables analysis of a broad spectrum of sample types while ensuring constant sampling pathlength. ATR crystals available are diamond/ZnSe, ZnSe, Ge, and Si. Advanced options include three reflection ATR crystal plates to optimize for lower concentration components and heating.

The integrating sphere is very often an accessory of choice when studying reflectance properties of solids, analyzing light scattering and/or highly absorbing samples and collecting spectra difficult to obtain with standard sampling techniques. PIKE Technologies offers two Mid-IR integrating spheres, designed for research and standard applications that require high sensitivity and ability to collect high quality data from difficult to analyze samples.

The NIR IntegratIR is a near-infrared (NIR) integrating sphere for quantitative and qualitative measurements of a wide variety of solids and paste materials. The NIR IntegratIR collects reflected energy from a spherical perspective and thereby captures complete and quantitative response from the sample. Using near-infrared chemometrics, qualitative product identification and quantitative analysis may be performed on pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, chemical, polymer, textile, food, agricultural and other samples.

The Heated Gas Flow Cell is recommended for high-performance FTIR sampling of flowing gas samples. The beam conforming design of the cell provides for minimum cell volume, maximum throughput, and a 100 mm pathlength. The gas cell may be heated up to 300 °C to prevent condensation of ghier molecular weight gas species.

The  EasiDiff is an economical, high quality diffuse reflectance accessory designed to analyze a wide variety of solid samples. It is most often used in the analysis of pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, inorganic solids and minerals, and powdered chemicals. The EasiDiff reduces the time required to produce an infrared spectrum compared to KBr pellet techniques. In general, diffuse reflectance is a sensitive IR sampling technique.