Sophisticated software for CRAIC imaging system control and image analysis

 

 

Introduction

CRAIC Technologies™ has developed the ImageUV™ solution to allow users of its UV-visible-NIR range microscopes and microspectrophotometers to acquire and analyze images in the UV, color and NIR regions with a single, easy-to-use software package.  The solution combines hardware and software to enable you to control from several digital imaging systems with just one interface, each optimized for its spectral region. The software has numerous image analysis features as well as advanced camera control options to yield the very best UV, visible and NIR images from any CRAIC Technologies microscope or microspectrophotometer.

ImageUV™ is designed to be fully integrated with CRAIC Technologies PV microspectrophotometer and UVM microscope series and acts seamlessly to acquire images with CRAIC Technologies UV, visible and NIR imaging systems. It can be used for everything from contamination analysis to inspection of interior circuitry of bonded wafer devices. ImageUV™ is simple to use, very fast and results in very detailed images. It allows you to analyze individual wavelengths or broad regions.  The software also offers a number of sophisticated image analysis algorithms to enhance your work.

Features

Image System Control

Image Analysis

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ImageUV™, CRAIC ImageUV™,  the lit microscope base and the lit octagonal optical head are trademarks of CRAIC Technologies, Inc. CRAIC Technologies, 20/30™, 20/30 PV™ and "Perfect Vision for Science" are all trademarks of CRAIC Technologies, Inc. Instrument features offered depend upon instrument configuration.  Features listed here may not be present in some configurations.

*Features and specifications depend upon instrument configuration.  Specifications subject to change without notice.

Easy to use Ultraviolet NIR Microscope

The UVM-1™ is a UV microscope that also can image in the visible and NIR. This UV-visible-NIR microscope embodies both advanced optics for cutting edge UV, color and NIR imaging and visualization. The system is a flexible design, very easy to use and very durable. It is designed with cutting edge CRAIC optics for the highest image quality and to give years of service.

The UVM-1™ UV microscope can image in transmission, reflectance, polarization and even in fluorescence from the UV, visible, and NIR regions with high spatial resolution...all with the same microscope and without swapping components.

Features

UV microscope imaging microscopic samples in the ultraviolet, visible and near infrared.

Key Features*

• Deep UV microscopy
• Color microscopy
• NIR microscopy...all with the same instrument and without changing optics!
• Raman spectroscopy of microscopic samples.
• Transmission, reflectance, fluorescence, and polarization imaging of microscopic samples...all with the same instrument
• True high resolution digital imaging and direct visualization through eyepieces
• Easy to use and maintain

 

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CRAIC Technologies quartz slides, quartz wellslides and quartz coverslips are spectral grade and manufactured to the highest levels of quality.

Quartz slides and quartz coverslips are commonly used in UV-visible microspectroscopy and microscopy.  This is because common glass slides and coverslips absorb UV light resulting in very little transmission below 340 nm.  Quartz, on the other hand, transmits UV light with much greater efficiencies.

However, all quartz is not equal.  As with anything, there are various grades and specifications.  The most common quartz slides and coverslips use lower grade materials as they are not designed for deep UV microspectroscopy or microscopy.  However, a spectroscopist needs all the UV light they can get... especially in the deep ultraviolet region where many materials exhibit some very unique features.

To the left is the transmittance spectra of CRAIC spectral grade quartz and quartz commonly used in microscope slides and coverslips.  The purple line represents the type of quartz that is most commonly used to manufacture quartz slides and quartz coverslips.  As is obvious, there is a dramatic drop in UV transmission of this material below 265 nm.  This is one of the reasons so many scientists have difficulty with UV microspectroscopy between 200 to 265 nm when not using CRAIC quartz slides. The red line represents the optical grade quartz used by CRAIC Technologies in their quartz slides and quartz coverslips.  The amount of UV transmitted is over 85% down to 200 nm.

*Features and specifications depend upon instrument configuration.  Specifications subject to change without notice.