EMCCD Camera features back-illuminated design.
Press Release Summary:
Offering ultrasensitive scientific camera platform, vacuum-housed iXonEM+ can be applied in quantitative fashion to meet variety of experimental requirements. Camera combines photon collection efficiencies up to 95% QE with single photon sensitivity through virtual elimination of read noise detection limit. Unit offers multiple readout speeds up to 10 MHz, choice of EMCCD or conventional CCD output amplifiers, true 16-bit digitization, and Thermoelectric (TE) cooling down to -100°C.
Original Press Release:
iXonEM+ EMCCD Camera
Back-illuminated EMCCD Cameras
With the back-illuminated iXonEM+, Andor have delivered a dedicated, truly high-end, ultrasensitive scientific camera platform, designed specifically to get the absolute best from back-illuminated EMCCD technology across all critical performance specs and parameters.
Andor's vacuum-housed back-illuminated iXonEM+ EMCCD range is designed to ensure the absolute highest sensitivity from a quantitative scientific digital camera, particularly under dynamic measurement conditions (faster frame rates). Andor's vacuum-housing is critical to ensure complete protection of the back-illuminated sensor, such that it will not suffer QE performance degradation.
The architecture of EMCCD sensors also render them extremely flexible. When harnessed effectively in the iXonEM+, EMCCD technology can be applied in an entirely quantitative fashion to meet a wide variety of experimental requirements, ranging from single photon counting experiments through to slower scan, true 16-bit dynamic range measurements. The iXonEM+ is also equipped with patented pioneering technology that ensures the longest quantitative service life of any EMCCD, offering ultimate anti-ageing protection of the sensor and automated user-initiated recalibration of EMCCD gain (EMCAL(TM)).
Technology Excellence
Since 2001, this pioneering camera range has had a profound influence on photon starved imaging applications, from live cell microscopy to photon counting astronomy. The back-illuminated iXonEM+ combines photon collection efficiencies of up to 95% QE with single photon sensitivity through virtual elimination of the read noise detection limit. The industry leading platform offers multiple readout speeds up to 10 MHz, choice of EMCCD or conventional CCD output amplifiers, true 16-bit digitization and benefits from negligible dark current with unequalled Thermoelectric (TE) cooling down to -100°C.
Andor's unique rapid vertical clock parameters ensure that Clock Induced Charge (spurious noise) is the lowest available, frame rates are fastest available, and smear is minimal under short exposures.
The new Real EM-Gain control of iXonEM+ offers enhanced user-friendliness and quantitative control, setting a new precedent in day-to-day EMCCD use. Now, the absolute EMCCD gain of the camera can be varied linearly from unity up to maximum gain directly through the software, via a true quantitative EM gain scale. The gain you ask for is the gain you get.
