ALPHA II
Advanced, Ultra-Compact FTIR Spectrometer by Bruker
Advanced, Ultra-Compact FTIR Spectrometer by Bruker
Redefining portability in spectroscopy, Bruker’s ALPHA II is as compact as a standard laboratory notebook yet remains unparalleled in its analytical capability. With its intuitive plug-and-play design and user-friendly software, you can trust in the Bruker brand for top-tier FTIR analysis.
Key Benefits:
- An affordable Bruker FTIR spectrometer with a space-saving footprint.
- Built with premium-grade components that promise an extended lifespan and an enhanced warranty, embodying Bruker’s commitment to quality.
- Features a stabilized temperature detector and the innovative IR source, CenterGlowTM, showcasing Bruker’s advanced tech integration.
- The RockSolidTM interferometer, designed by Bruker, ensures high-performance and unwavering reliability.
- Experience adaptability at its best with QuickSnapTM modules that cater to transmission, ATR, and reflection needs.
- Bruker’s OPUS Touch offers seamless touchscreen functionality, freeing you from external computers.
- With Bruker, trust in comprehensive automated validation processes, aligning with cGMP standards (OQ, PQ), 21 CFR Part 11, and validations in accordance with EU, JP, and US Pharmacopeia standards.
Bruker Simplifies Quality Control and Sample Identification
In the realm of quality control, Bruker understands that the primary focus is ensuring that a sample aligns with its specifications. With the QuickCompare feature within Bruker’s OPUS software, an efficient evaluation function is at your fingertips. Setting up QuickCompare methods is effortless, delivering clear and reliable results. Additionally, for instances like identifying unknown contaminants leading to product failures, Bruker provides automated searches using analogous reference spectrums from spectral libraries.
Bruker’s OPUS Touch: Seamless User Interaction
One of Bruker’s standout innovations is the incorporation of the user-centric OPUS Touch software. Coupled with a touch-screen interface and an integrated PC, Bruker ensures intuitive operation and analysis, making it user-friendly even for novices.
Bruker’s QuickSnapTM: Versatile Sampling Modules
Bruker’s easily interchangeable QuickSnapTM sampling modules facilitate the analysis of a diverse range of samples, whether they’re solid, liquid, or gaseous.
Modules by Bruker:
- Transmission – Including holders for foil and KBr tablets, cells for liquids and gases, and flow-through cells.
- Reflection – Features like the 30° reflection module, external contactless reflection, DRIFTS, and specular reflection.
- ATR – Options from Diamond, ZnSe or Ge ATR to multi-reflection ATR and flow-through ATR, all tailored by Bruker for precision.
Bruker’s Unique RockSolidTM Interferometer Design
The Bruker-crafted, permanently aligned RockSolidTM interferometer stands out with its patented design, offering over 20% enhanced throughput compared to conventional designs. It incorporates dual retro reflection cube corner mirrors and a wear-resistant pivot mechanism centered at the mass core, ensuring unparalleled stability and reliability even in challenging environments. Thanks to Bruker’s innovative approach, issues like mirror tilt and mechanical mirror shear are efficiently addressed.
Bruker-Driven Advantages:
- No standby mode required for bearing protection
- Movement doesn’t necessitate recalibration
- Eliminates mechanical bearing wear, reducing the need for spare parts and minimizing service expenses
- Exceptional resistance to both vibrations and thermal fluctuations.
The ALPHA’s compact design makes it a portable spectrometry choice. Its mobility is further boosted with a range of accessories:
- Support tripod
- External power source
- Attachable PC with intuitive touchscreen
- Protective transport case for ALPHA and an additional QuickSnapTM module
- Wireless LAN connectivity add-on.
Our range of autosampling tools offers solutions for a plethora of samples and analysis types.
The DRIFT module caters to a wide array of solid samples, from powders and gemstones to paper and textiles. Designed for effortless sampling with high light penetration, it provides unparalleled efficiency for FTIR diffuse reflection evaluations.
ATR, a user-friendly FTIR sampling technique, is apt for both solid and liquid samples and eliminates the need for sample preparation. The Budget ATR is a single reflection module that offers exceptional value, furnished with a versatile high-throughput ZnSe ATR crystal, apt for examining powders, solids, pastes, and liquids.
These special reflection modules offer a non-invasive, contact-free FT-IR assessment of substantial samples, be it placed atop or ahead of the device. Whether it’s paper, textiles, large car parts, or murals during restoration, samples can be easily analyzed. An integrated camera aids in pinpointing the analysis area.
These dedicated modules, equipped with an integrated gas cell, facilitate transmission IR spectroscopic assessments of gases and their mixtures. The ALPHA module with a 7 cm gas cell has a minimized volume ensuring swift gas exchanges and lesser sample amounts. The 4.8 m gas cell module offers heightened sensitivity for trace concentrations. Additionally, heating options are present to avert gas condensation.
This ATR module, equipped with a horizontal ZnSe ATR crystal, is perfectly tuned for assessing pastes, gels, and liquids. With six internal reflections and unparalleled light throughput, it guarantees top-tier ATR measurement sensitivity, even for samples with minimal concentration.
The ALPHA Platinum ATR offers a single reflection diamond ATR module that adds convenience to routine testing. It boasts an ergonomic one-touch clamp for effortless sample placement. Cleaning is made simple with the 360° rotatable pressure applicator that offers unhindered access to the sampling.
The all-in-one module makes analyzing a broad spectrum of samples – solids, liquids, and gases – a breeze. The 2×3″ standard sample holder in this transmission compartment is adaptable for various gas and liquid cells. Solid specimens can be placed using a standard pellet holder or a magnetic film holder. Reflective surface samples have a special reflection measurement accessory.
Software-controlled heating devices.
Fast and reliable FT-IR spectroscopic measurement of diamonds in diffuse reflection. Software wizard guides the user through the complete analysis procedure. In a first step diamonds are distinguished from imitations or other precious gemstones. Then an accurate and reliable determination of the diamond type is performed. Finally the result of the analysis is presented in a well-arranged report (pdf or csv file).
Fast and reliable identification of legal and illegal substances. Simple sampling and the intuitive design of the software interface. A powerful mixture analysis allows to determine the individual components e.g. of laced drugs. Finally, the result of the analysis is presented in a meaningful report (pdf). To be able to always identify new drugs, system can be upgraded by a dedicated spectra library from TICTAC Communications Ltd.
Fast and reliable identification of the main chemical components in kidney stones. The identification of the components in the kidney stone sample is performed by automated search of the resulting spectrum in a dedicated spectral library containing >5,000 spectra of authentic kidney stones. A clear report (hardcopy, pdf or csv file) of the identification result finalizes the analysis.
FT-IR system for the analysis of oil extracts in chloroform prepared according to the Bruker “oil in water” method. ALPHA FT-IR spectrometer equipped with a robust flow-through cell for sensitive transmission measurement. Pre-prepared calibration covers the concentration range from 0 ppm to 140 ppm and has a typical error of prediction of ~3ppm. The calibration data base can be edited, expanded or setup completely new by the user.
ALPHA with ATR diamond unit for the quick and reliable check of the correct chemical composition polymers and plastics. The OPUS software comprises the QuickCompare method for spectrum comparison to verify the correct composition of known material. A predefined method with a selection of spectra from basic polymers, fillers and additives is included.
cGMP/GMP, US, European and Japanese Pharmacopeia and 21 CFR Part11 validated spectrometer system for the quick and reliable check of the correct chemical composition of pharmaceutical raw materials and products. An extensive library with ATR-spectra of pharmaceutical substances is included in the ALPHA-PHARMA package.
ALPHA equipped with robust ATR cell for the rapid analysis of wine, must or juice. The ATR cell is temperature controlled for manual or automated measurements using an autosampler. Optionally comprehensive starter calibrations for finished wines and must are available, allowing the parallel determination of various analytical parameters like alcohol, different sugars and acid content.
Teaching kit offers a comprehensive set of tools for universities and vocational schools to demonstrate and explain the application of FT-IR spectroscopy. The teaching kit provides everything that is required to perform the following IR-experiments which are standards in education:
- Substance identification by library search
- Thickness determination of layers
- Quantification according to Lambert Beer’s law
- Determination of the rotational constant of gases