XL3 hybrid
Ultimate detection limits
Like the XL3air, the XL3 hybrid can be used under air.
Optionally, it can also operate with helium.
- Performance can be further improved by activating the helium flush.
- Possibility to achieve limits which until now were typically associated with optical emission spectrometers.
- Helium gas displaces the air in the detector.
- There is hardly any pressure on the window film – contrary to vacuum.
Areas of application
The XL3 hybrid analyser achieves with helium flush the lowest detection limits for Mg, Al, Si, P, S. It is the perfect instrument for very low tolerance levels or detection limits, which require an improved accuracy, e.g.:
- Distinction between pure aluminium and Al Mg
- Phosphorus in bronze
Technical details
| Weights and measures | 244 x 230 x 95,5 mm; 1,3 kg (without battery) |
| X-ray tube | Ag-anode (standard) 50 kV, 40 µA, 2 Watt max. |
| Detector | SDD-detector (GOLDD-technology) |
| Range of analysis | from Mg (12) to U (92) more than 25 elements, varies depending on measuring program |
| System electronics | 533 MHz ARM 11CPU, 300 MHz DSP 80 MHz ASICS DSP, MCA 4096 channels 32 MB internal system memory, 128 MB internal random-access memory |
| Operating system | Nucleus OS™ from Mentor Graphics |
| Battery | Lithium-ion battery, for approx. 6-8 hours of continuous operation |
| Display | folding VGA colour touch screen display |
| Database | up to 10.000 measurements incl. spectra, CCD image optional |
| Data transfer | USB, Bluetooth, serial (RS-232) |
| Security | Password protection, scalable |
| Analysers | Alloy analysis, electronics, precious metals and dental alloys, plastics, consumer goods, environmental analysis, soil and mineral analysis, dusts on filters, Signatur Match, SuperChem™-mode and layer thickness analysis, empirical calibration, empirical calibration in combination with FP |
| Matrix correction | Compton normalisation (CN), fundamental parameters (FP) thickness correction for thin samples (plastic mode) |
| Display mode | Boundary-value analysis (Pass / Fail / Inconclusive) traffic light display |
| Data entry | on-screen keyboard (touch-screen) info input list writable by user optional: Bluetooth bar code reader |