Spectrometers

Spectrometers are analytical instruments which disperse an emission (such as particles or radiation) according to some property of the emission (such as mass or energy) in order to measure the amount of the dispersion. This product area includes visible, infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), atomic absorption (AA), optical emission (OE), Raman, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and mass spectrometers. Specific search forms are also available. Performance specifications for spectrometers include: spectral range, spectral resolution, mass range, mass resolution, and mass accuracy. Spectral range is the dispersion of the grating across the linear array, or the “size” of the spectra on the array. Spectral resolution is the width of an analytical peak at half its height as measured in nanometers (nm). This value indicates the spectrometer’s ability to separate two overlapping peaks. Spectral accuracy is the agreement between a mean measured value and a true or accepted value as quantified by error. Mass range is a measurement of atomic mass that is expressed in atomic mass units (amu) or Daltons (Da). Mass resolution is the ratio of the mass divided by the change in mass over the area of two peaks.  

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