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Modular Spectroscopy Solutions for Advanced Materials Science

Andor’s Spectroscopy portfolio offers high sensitivity and highly configurable solutions to characterise the chemical, structural, electronic and/or optical properties of a wide range of materials down to the nanoscale with high accuracy and repeatability.

It provides essential tools for the study of structures at the nano-, micro- and macro-scale based on probing techniques including Raman, Photoluminescence / Fluorescence / Cathodoluminescence, Absorption, Optical Emission Spectroscopy and LIBS, Second Harmonic Generation or Darkfield Scattering.

Spectroscopy Solutions Adapted to Your Needs

Andor spectroscopy detectors provide the highest sensitivity from UV to SWIR regions, ensuring that information related to chemical signatures, structural changes or photonics properties can be obtained with the highest accuracy and highest reproducibility possible. Our highly configurable spectrographs provide platforms ideal for multimodal setups and a wide range of photon regimes and experiments e.g. micro-spectroscopy.

High Sensitivity & Dynamic Range

  • High sensitivity UV-SWIR
  • Large pixel well depths
  • High resolution matix
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ns to µs
Time-Resolution

  • Nanosecond gating
  • High sensitivity down to single photon
  • On-head DDG with ps accuracy
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µs to ms
Time-Resolution

  • Multi-kHz spectral rates
  • High sensitivity down to single photon
  • High resolution matrix
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Spectrograph Systems & Accessories

  • High modularity, high resolution and high throughput Kymera & Shamrock
  • Large simultaneous bandpass, high resolution Mechelle
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Applications and Techniques 

Semiconductors

Non-invasive probing techniques like Raman, Photoluminescence, or Absorption can provide very specific information on the structural (including presence of defects or behaviour under strain/stress), electronics behaviour or light emission properties of a wide range of advanced semiconductor structures.

These range from low dimensional nanocrystals, Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDs) or organic semiconductors (e.g. OLEDs) to more complex microelectronics and light harvesting structures.

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Further Reading

Nearfield spectroscopy of a ZnO thin film
The development of optoelectronic devices for use in the UV/blue region is enhanced by a better understanding of the properties of the available wider bandgap semiconductor mate...
High Sensitivity in-situ and Real-time Differential Reflectance Spectroscopy during Molecular Beam Deposition
Organic semiconductor thin film devices are promising candidates for a large variety of optoelectronic applications such as OLED displays and semi-transparent solar cells. Among...
Raman Spectroscopy and Photoluminescence measurements
Webinar: Raman Spectroscopy - A New Dawn In Clinical Diagnosis Watch The Webinar Silicon (Si) plays an important role in semiconductor devices. During manufacturing, the struc...
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Electronic Sum Frequency Generation for the Investigation of Opto-Electronically Relevant Interfaces
Current optoelectronic devices for light harvesting (or emission) are based on heterostructures of semiconducting or metallic compounds with different electronic properties. The...
Optical characterization of atomically thin 2D semiconductors
Since the discovery of graphene, atomically thin quasi two-dimensional materials have been studied very intensely in the past decade.1 They often exhibit very unique fundamental...
Photoluminescence Mapping of GaN-Based Nanostructure Arrays
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the semiconductor GaN and its related compounds InN and AlN have taken a prominent position on the scene of semiconductor materials and devices...
Measurement of the infrared absorption of a MoTe2 monolayer
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, such as MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2, possess optical band gaps in the visible regime. In contrast, the band gap of monolayer MoTe2...
Correlative Hyperspectral XAS and XEOL Nanoimaging Setup at the SOLEIL Synchrotron HERMES Beamline
X-ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL) is a phenomenon in which a material is irradiated with highly energetic X-ray photons and excited electrons follow de-excitation pathwa...
Strain tuning of excitonic resonances in atomically thin WSe2
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, such as MoS2, MoSe2, MoTe2, WS2, WSe2, represent a new class of two-dimensional semiconductors. Their optical band gap in the vis...
Determination of Triplet Energies and Decay Times of Light-emitting Layers
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are devices which emit light when electric current is passed through them. They are similar to standard LEDs except that the electrolumines...
Magneto-PL in Si nanocrystals
Silicon (Si) as a material has dominated the field of microelectronics for quite some time, but when it comes to photonic devices it has had little impact due to its poor light ...
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Quantum

Application of optical spectroscopy in quantum science include the characterisation of electronics and optical properties of single-photon sources such as Quantum Dots (QDs) and nitrogen vacancy (NV) in diamond, as well as the study of how these sources can interface with systems relevant to quantum communication.

Andor imaging EMCCDs and gated ICCDs detectors are also at the forefront of quantum science research, in particular photon-entanglement experiments.

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Further Reading

Automated classification of cavity coupled single photon emitters
The integration of quantum emitters, such as color centers in diamond, single molecules or colloidal quantum dots, with nano-photonic circuits enables quantum optic experiments ...
Photoluminescence spectroscopy of single-photon emitters in a WSe2 monolayer
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), such as MoS2, MoSe2, WSe2, and WSe2 are promising for conceptually new opto-electronic devices. These TMDCs are direct ba...
Sub-Bandgap Photoluminescence Study on Implantation-Induced Color Centers in 4H-SiC
Fig. 1: Optical setup Defect centers in silicon carbide (SiC) capable of visible and near-infrared luminescence (color centers) have attracted great attention in recent years d...
Characterization of a new type of optically active gate defined quantum dot
Gate defined quantum dots (GDQDs) based on AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure have been extensively studied as a platform for spin qubits [1]. However, until now, little work has been ...

Energy

Advanced material science plays a key role in the development of efficient renewable energy harvesting systems including solar/photovoltaic cells, as well the development of more efficient energy storage solutions which include the implementation of novel nano/micro-structures and novel catalysts in batteries.

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Further Reading

Luminescence detection of organic solar cells
In the literature there is only little information on the luminescence of organic solar cells, since only few work groups own a spectroscopy setup that is capable of recording t...
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) Thin Film Solar Cells
CIGS-based thin film solar modules are promising candidates for a cost-efficient conversion of solar energy into electricity. A thin film module consists of many single solar ce...
Quantitative Photoluminescence of Solar Cell Absorbers and the Quality of the Photo-Excited State
Research on novel thin film solar cells has always been motivated by the low material and energy consumption which is needed for the processing of this type of device. This appr...
Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide (MAPbI3) Films
The class of organic-inorganic halide perovskite semiconductors has attracted a lot of attention due to their outstanding optical and electrical properties. High performance pho...

Life Science

Nanomaterials and nanostructures have found numerous applications in the field of life science. The development of brighter, more stable and lower toxicity optical probes (based for example on quantum dots) greatly benefit Biomedical imaging applications, while functionalised nanostructures development provide targeted drug delivery and therapeutics platforms.

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Plasmonics

The understanding and control of the interaction between metal or semiconductor (surface) plasmons and photons can be exploited for a number of applications including high sensitivity label-free chemical sensing, using for example Surface-Enhanced (SERS) or Tip-Enhanced (TERS) Raman Spectroscopy.

Plasmonic metamaterials offer alternative solutions to chemical detection, but also are of interest for light manipulation or harvesting (in the context of renewable energy and solar cells for example) and biomedical applications.

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Expand your Research Capabilities

Material science setups can be complemented by Andor’s high sensitivity and resolution Imaging EMCCD or sCMOS cameras than can provide additional spatial behaviour information on a wide range of microscopy setups. Asylum Research Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) systems provide complementary type of topological, nano-electrical, nano-mechanical or magnetic information.

 

High Sensitivity Imaging Cameras by Andor

  • High sensitivity UV-VIS down to single photon
  • Fast frame rates
  • High resolution pixels
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AFM Solutions by Asylum Research

  • Higher resolution than any other large-sample AFM
  • From setup to results, every step is simpler and faster
  • Modular design adapts to your needs
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Tools for Electron Microscopy by NanoAnalysis

  • Backscattered Electron and X-ray (BEX) detectors
  • Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) detectors
  • Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) detectors
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Learning Centre Resources

Scientific Cameras: The Fundamentals – Part Two
Learning objectives of Demystifying Scientific Cameras - The Fundamentals - Part 2: Learn about different Noise Sources Understand Dynamic Range and Digitization Under...
InGaAs sensors for SWIR spectroscopy TE vs LN2 Cooling
CCDs are transparent to photons with energy below the Silicon bandgap (1.14 eV), and therefore cannot be used for detection in the Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) above ~1.1 µm...
EMCCDs for Low-Light Spectroscopy
Electron Multiplication (EM) technology has been one of the most important developments in light detection over the last decade. It has revolutionized the whole area of low-ligh...
Low Dark Current Deep-Depletion (LDC-DD) CCD Technology
Standard back-illuminated, deep-depletion (BI-DD) CCDs offer quantum efficiencies (QE) up to 95% in the near-infrared (NIR) This makes them the detector of choice for photolumin...
Optical Etaloning in Charge Coupled Devices (CCD)
In the field of scientific-grade CCD detectors, back-illuminated CCDs and Electron-Multiplying EMCCDs offer key benefits for applications where the photon signal available is ex...
sCMOS Cameras for Ultrafast Spectroscopy
The unique combination of high acquisition speeds, high sensitivity and high dynamic range of Scientific CMOS (sCMOS) technology has proven extremely attractive for applications...
Scientific Cameras: The Fundamentals – Part One
Overview: Many people use scientific digital cameras in their day to day research, either directly as part of a laboratory ‘breadboard-level’ modular optical set-up...
An Introduction to Intensified Gated CCDs | ICCDs
The ability of ICCDs to detect extremely low photon fluxes, as well as isolate and sample in time short-lived or fast transient phenomena on the nanosecond scale benefit a numbe...
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Customer Publications

Author Title Year
Yuan et al Nanocrystals of divalent europium-doped CsPbCl3 perovskites: a novel optoelectronic material with dual-emissions 2024
Mutlu et al Enhancement of light emission characteristic of a GaAs-based Gunn light emitting diode with a quasi-cavity 2024
Yu et al Anomalous isotope effect on the optical bandgap in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor 2024
Zhou et al Role of Trapped Carriers Dynamics in Operating Lead Halide Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells 2024
Ghezellou et al Influence of Different Hydrocarbons on Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth and Surface Morphological Defects in 4H-SiC Epitaxial Layers 2024
Sankar et al Optical Properties of Low-Defect Large-Area Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Quantum Applications 2024
Wang et al PbS Quantum Dots Ink with Months-Long Shelf-Lifetime Enabling Scalable and Efficient Short-Wavelength Infrared Photodetectors 2024
Ghafariasl et al Sulfur Vacancy Related Optical Transitions in Graded Alloys of MoxW1‐xS2 Monolayers 2024
Shi et al Enhanced electrical conductivity and reduced work function of β-Ga2O3 thin films by hydrogen plasma treatment 2024
Yang et al Ferroelectric transistors based on shear-transformation-mediated rhombohedral-stacked molybdenum disulfide 2024
Mahdikhany et al Ultra-broadband bright light emission from a one-dimensional inorganic van der Waals material 2024
Kuang et al Enhanced Electrochemiluminescence of Rod-Shape 25-Atom AuAg Nanoclusters through Ligand Engineering 2024
Nicolas et al Non-Linear Optical Activity of Chiral Bipyrimidine-Based Thin Films 2024
Pai et al Angular-Momentum Transfer Mediated by a Vibronic-Bound-State 2024
Chen et al Precision measurement of M1 optical clock transition in Ni12+ 2024

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