Overview
Exum Instruments’ MassboxTM brings mass spectrometry out of the traditional laboratory environment and combines high performance with intuitive operations into a compact package. The MassboxTM enables materials scientists and engineers to spend less time acquiring data and more time learning from it, ExumTM builds instruments and software ecosystems that combine high performance with ease-of-use. An American company, Exum’s innovative MassboxTM can take any solid material and measure the full periodic table of its constituents in minutes. The system is easy to use and bypasses all the cumbersome, time-consuming requirements of analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP).
The MassboxTM combines Exum’s patented Laser Ablation Laser Ionization (LALI) technique with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOF-MS) to provide:
Unique Features
- Quantitative compositional analysis of the full periodic table in minutes: For any solid material, users get trace-level quantitative results for the full periodic table, from lithium to uranium. Results include important light elements that are traditionally difficult to quantify like oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. This accelerates quality control and new material development.
- Rapid screening with automatic elemental identification: The MassboxTM software automatically verifies detected elements. Within seconds of pushing “go,” users can identify an unknown material or detect trace-level contaminants.
- Elemental mapping: In addition to providing bulk composition, the MassboxTM reveals how elements change spatially for process control or failure analysis. In each session, users can analyze an area up to 83 mm by 83 mm and create elemental maps with micron-level resolution.
- Depth profiling: MassboxTM users create nanoscale depth profiles either by repeating elemental maps or dwelling with a single laser spot. Depending on the material type, the ablation laser typically removes 10s of nanometers per laser shot.