Photon - Model IMA™ PL -Hyperspectral Microscope

• Fast global mapping (non scanning)
• High spatial and spectral resolution
• Complete system (source, microscope, camera, filter, software)
• Non-destructive analysis
• Customization available

PHOTOVOLTAIC

Spectrally resolved images provide considerable advantages such as, absolute calibration of intensity, micrometer scale resolution, and excitation and detection on a surface. The images rendered by IMATM are spectrally resolved luminescence images from multicrystalline CIS solar cell, offering means of studying its spatial inhomogeneities. Furthermore, the system was compared to a classical confocal microscope, showing significant gains in acquisition time.

THIN FILMS

Magneto-optical (MO) effects are used either as tools for probing the magnetization reversal characteristics of a wide range of sample types, or as an effective way to modify the polarization of light via induced magnetization state in samples. In transparent samples, the Faraday effect, along with other MO effects such as Kerr measurements, provide a non-destructive probe for in-situ measurements of samples, such as thin films.

NANOPARTICLES IN CANCER CELLS

With the purpose of showing the capabilities of IMATM to analyse nanomaterials in biological systems, a sample of MDA-MB-23 human breast cancer cells has been tagged with 60 nm gold nanoparticles and exposed to a dark field illumination on the entire field of view. With a 60X objective, an area of 150x112 μm was imaged, with a step of 2 nm and an exposition time of 2 s per wavelength. The analysis took only a few minutes, for more than one million spectra, each of them covering the whole visible spectrum.