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    • Andor Technology

    Belfast, Northern Ireland BT12 7AL

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    About Andor Technology

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    7 Millennium Way
    Springvale Business Pk
     Belfast, Northern Ireland BT12 7AL
    United Kingdom
    http://www.andor.com
    44-28-9023-7126
    44-28-9031-0792

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    Designs and manufactures imaging and spectroscopy cameras and microscopy solutions for leading academic and research establishments across scientific disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy.

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    Detectors & Imaging

    sCMOS camera detects trace concentrations of species

    The Marana 4.2B-6 back-illuminated 4.2-Mpixel scientific CMOS (sCMOS) model now offers a low noise mode with read noise of 1.0 e-.
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    Bio&Life Sciences

    sCMOS camera is suited for life science imaging

    The ZL41 sCMOS camera can transform a regular fluorescence microscope into a super-resolution microscope.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    Scientific CMOS camera provides full frame rate of 74 fps

    The Marana-X direct x-ray detection back-illuminated sCMOS camera is designed for ultrafast soft x-ray/EUV tomography applications.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    Andor Technology scientific camera provides up to 74 fps for dynamic imaging

    The Marana 4.2B-6 back-illuminated scientific camera offers 95% quantum efficiency and vacuum cooling down to -45°C.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    Andor Technology microscopy camera has 95% quantum efficiency

    The Sona 4.2B-6 back-illuminated microscopy camera has a 4.2 Mpixel sensor format with a 6.5 µm pixel size for obtaining maximum resolution from 60x and 40x objective lens magnification...
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    Test & Measurement

    Andor EMCCD cameras help detect source of laser beam attacks on aircraft

    John Wallace
    In an MIT Lincoln Labs project, potentially blinding laser beams are triangulated by their scattered light and pinpointed using Google Earth.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    Andor Technology back-illuminated camera platform has use in fluorescence microscopy

    The back-illuminated Sona 4.2B-11 and Sona 2.0B-11 sCMOS microscopy camera features a 4.2 or 2.0 Mpixel on-sample field of view.
    FIGURE 1. A comparison (a) of the signal-to-noise ratio vs. photon intensity for two types of Zyla cameras made by Andor Technology to that of the company’s iXon back-illuminated electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) shows that the EMCCD is best for the lowest photon rates, including single photon counting, while sCMOS takes over for higher (but still very low) photon rates). The quantum efficiency (QE) of Andor’s Zyla cameras is optimized for use with a range of fluorophores (b).
    Detectors & Imaging

    Photonics Products: Scientific CMOS Cameras: sCMOS cameras reach new levels of capability

    John Wallace
    sCMOS cameras are now widely used in a variety of leading-edge microscopy techniques, as well as in astronomy and elsewhere.
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    Depiction of two neutron stars about to collide.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Low-noise Andor CCD cameras help capture, analyze recent neutron-star collision

    John Wallace
    Gravitational-wave detection combined with observation of photon emission from the collision provide insights.
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    IMAGE: A custom-designed Andor iKon-XL Astronomy CCD was successfully deployed on the new Antarctica Bright Star Survey Telescope (BSST); its spatial resolution, extended dynamic range, and low-noise performance increase the possibility of finding more stars and planetary systems in the hunt for Super-Earths.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Andor ColdSpace-cooled CCD deployed on Antarctica Bright Star Survey Telescope

    Gail Overton
    A custom-designed Andor iKon-XL Astronomy CCD was successfully deployed on the new Antarctica BSST.

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    A high-speed scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera offers very high frame rates of 4000 frames per second (fps) with all the standard advantages of sCMOS technology. Most sCMOS cameras have imaging speeds in the 100 fps realm.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Andor launches 4000 fps high-speed sCMOS camera

    Gail Overton
    Andor Technology launched its new iStar platform featuring the latest in high-speed, low-noise sCMOS technology.
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    The blue curve shows the expected fall-off of energy density with increasing penetration depth of light in a scattering medium (the small dip at the entering surface is a function of the scatterer's mean free path). The red enhanced diffusion curve shows a very different result: a sharp rise, resulting in much more energy stored inside the scattering layer.
    Optics

    Light is made to peak deep within a scattering layer

    John Wallace
    An SLM shapes the incoming wavefront, boosting stored light power within the medium by 4.6 times.
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    Current versus voltage (I‐V) plot of a connected antenna with tunnel gap (a). For applied voltages above 1.5 V, light is detected whose intensity grows linearly with the current. Inset: Fowler‐Nordheim representation of the same I‐V data and fit (solid line) using the Simmons model (with image charges, s=1.27 nm, φeff=2.56 eV, w=2.14 nm, εCTAB=1.435, Ioffset=50 pA, Ileakage=0). Electron micrograph of a structure superimposed with the subwavelength emission spot shows an Airy pattern with a FWHM of 350 nm (b). Weak background illumination was used to visualize the outline of the structure. Electroluminescence spectra for various applied voltage (c; open symbols). Solid red line: scattering spectrum of an unbiased antenna. Solid colored lines represent calculated electroluminescence spectra obtained according to the model described in the text. A global scaling factor was used to match the experimental data.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Electrically driven optical antennas emit tunable directional light

    John Wallace
    Researchers used Andor's Shamrock spectrometer and iXon EMCCD camera in their experiments.
    FIGURE 1. The shape of Horiba's iHR550 imaging spectrometer is dictated by its requirements.
    Bioimaging

    SPECTRAL IMAGING: Imaging spectrometers look at life in two ways

    John Wallace
    Spectral imaging is finding more and more applications in life sciences, from noninvasive disease diagnosis to food processing. Various imaging spectrometers make those applications...
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    Oxford Instruments acquires Andor, expands into nano-bio arena

    Gail Overton
    Abingdon, England--Andor will continue to focus on growing their existing core markets and will spearhead Oxford Instruments' strategic expansion into the nano-bio arena.
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    Optics

    Illumination technology from Andor assists in multifocal confocal microscopy

    Borealis improves uniformity ~10 fold, increases throughput by a factor of two, and extends the excitation wavelength range to 400-750 nm.
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    FIGURE 1. A hyperspectral image from Headwall Photonics' Micro-Hyperspec sensor was taken from a fixed-wing aircraft.
    Spectroscopy

    Photonics Products: Spectrometers: Imaging spectrometers examine the world around us

    John Wallace
    Imaging spectrometers capture enormous quantities of data in a 2D form that is relevant to areas from science and security to industry and art.
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    Einstein called quantum entanglement 'spooky action at a distance'. Now, a team from the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology has reported imaging of entanglement events where the influence of the measurement of one particle on its distant partner particle is directly visible using the Andor iStar ICCD camera.
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    Andor ICCD camera images "spooky action at a distance"

    Gail Overton
    Belfast, Ireland--The Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology has used an Andor ICCD camera to image quantum entanglement events Einstein called "spooky action at a distance...
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    Fluorescence

    Crop mode for live cell super-res microscopy by Andor Technology

    An Optically Centred Crop Mode is now available on the iXon Ultra 897 EMCCD camera from Andor Technology, which offers fast frame-rate performance from a region of interest (ROI...
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    Comparative RGB (left) and hyperspectral (right) images of a melanoma.
    Spectroscopy

    Hyperspectral imaging system screens for skin cancer noninvasively

    Researchers from the Shizuoka Cancer Center Research Institute in Japan have developed an automated, noninvasive melanoma screening system that may eliminate the need for a morphologica...
    (Image and caption courtesy of Harvard Medical School)
    pH response of pHRed fluorescence lifetime (630 nm emission) with 860 nm two-photon excitation, where a) represents pH response of peak normalized fluorescence lifetime decays of purified pHRed in solution and b) shows intracellular pH in live Neuro2A cells imaged with FLIM. The nigericin method was used to manipulate pH. c) pH response of pHRed fluorescence lifetime in cells (n = 6) and protein in solution (n = 3) in solution agreed well with an apparent pKa of 6.9 (0.2, similar to the F575/F440 intensity ratio response.
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    Researchers engineer first ratiometric, single-protein red fluorescent pH sensor

    Researchers from Harvard Medical School have engineered the first ratiometric, single-protein red fluorescent pH sensor.
    Taken in Dr. Ioan Notingher's lab at Nottingham University, the custom-built Raman microspectrometer with a cooled, deep-depletion, back-illuminated CCD camera can identify live cardiomyocyte cells within highly heterogeneous cell populations noninvasively.
    Spectroscopy

    Noninvasive Raman microspectroscopy technique boosts stem cell therapy

    Researchers at Nottingham University have developed a noninvasive Raman microspectroscopy (RMS) technique that phenotypically identifies live cardiomyocyte cells within highly...
    Geomagnetic sub-storm in the Earth's magnetic field lines, acquired by an Andor Neo sCMOS camera
    Research

    Andor announces winners of its scientific imaging competition

    Belfast, Northern Ireland--Andor Technology plc (Andor) announced the winning entries for its Andor Insight Awards Scientific Imaging Competition.
    FIGURE 1. Time-resolved laser-induced-breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) study of a copper alloy uses an iStar ICCD camera and Shamrock 303 spectrograph.
    Detectors & Imaging

    HIGH-SPEED IMAGING: Smarter ICCD cameras exploit their speed potential

    The latest generation of research-grade imaging and spectroscopy ICCD cameras uses novel software-customizable approaches to signal readout management and intensifier gating, ...
    Research

    Putting bowtie nanoantennas in arrays helps them concentrate light a thousandfold higher

    John Wallace
    Resonantly optically excited periodic bowtie nanoantenna arrays can concentrate light a thousandfold more than can individual nanoantenna bowties.
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    Spectroscopy

    Andor EMCCD cameras allow data acquisition in incident photon units

    The iXon X3 range of electron-multiplying CCD cameras lets users optimize a variety of acquisition parameters for a wide range of application conditions.
    FIGURE 1. The quantum efficiency curve of sCMOS cameras is now much closer to that of CCDs than that of the CMOS cameras of just a few years ago.
    Detectors & Imaging

    CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES: CCDs lose ground to new CMOS sensors

    While enhanced CCDs still provide important niche application performance, recent advances are enabling new CMOS imagers to address scientific applications.
    Research

    Andor frame-transfer cameras at CSTAR search for minor planets and supernovae

    John Wallace
    Four highly sensitive frame-transfer CCD cameras from Andor are helping Chinese astronomers scan the night sky above the South Pole.
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    Spectroscopy

    CCD cameras from Andor features reduced typical read noise at 1 MHz

    The Clara CCD camera, based on measured QC data from the first 200 cameras built, has reduced typical read noise to 2.4 electrons at 1 MHz.
    Optics

    Andor Technology acquires Bitplane

    John Wallace
    Andor Technology (Belfast, Northern Ireland) has revealed that on December 23 it acquired Bitplane (Zurich, Switzerland). Bitplane produces interactive microscopy image-analysis...
    Under conditions typically used in dynamic live-cell imaging, sCMOS provides a much wider field of view and improved signal-to-noise ratio at approximately 70 frames/s (left), compared with interline CCD’s 11 frames/s (above).
    Detectors & Imaging

    CMOS IMAGERS: sCMOS aims to topple CCD for scientific applications

    Barbara Gefvert
    Choosing a rapid frame rate has traditionally meant compromising on other capabilities such as wide dynamic range.
    Scientific CMOS (sCMOS) requires no tradeoff between high resolution and a large field of view, and thus competes favorably with current standard technologies for demanding scientific applications.
    Microscopy

    BIOINSTRUMENTATION: Laser, World of Photonics focuses on bio

    Barbara Gefvert
    Bio applications were a major emphasis at the enormous biennial Laser, World of Photonics 2009 (June 15-18, 2009; Munich, Germany), with an exhibition area dedicated mainly to...
    A conventional telescope image of the globular cluster M15 (5000 frames, 60 ms exposure time for each) at the Calar Alto observatory shows a point-spread function with a full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) angular size of 730 × 430 milliarcsec, considered very good at Calar Alto (top). A tip-tilt-corrected image of all 5000 frames has a FWHM of 390 milliarcsec (center). The AstraLux lucky-imaging approach is then applied, in which a combination of the best 250 images results in a FWHM of 110 milliarcsec (bottom; the high-resolution results for some of the brighter stars are masked by overexposure).
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    HIGH-SPEED IMAGERS: ‘Lucky imaging’ is no accident

    John Wallace
    One of the most important developments in ground-based astronomy in recent years has been the development of adaptive optics, which has raised the resolution of terrestrial telescopes...