Medway Optics has announced the addition of the diamond compression cell to its range of infrared (IR) accessories sampling products.
The company said the Type IIa diamond has excellent physical, mechanical and spectral transmission properties.
It is designed for use in microsampling by FTIR and UV/IR microscopy techniques.
Samples of solids and films such as mineral stones, polymers, fibres, paints and pharmaceutical materials can be compressed to uniform thin films for analysis without prior sample preparation.
The compression arrangement enables sufficient pressure to be applied by fingers on many hard samples to form films without damage to crystal, deformation or transformation of the samples.
The cell is fitted with a 3 x 2in standard FTIR sample holder back-plate, has a 1mm thick diamond with an optional clear aperture of 1.6mm or 2mm diameter and requires no beam condenser for efficient operation in IR spectrometers.
With a working distance of 11mm, it is ideally suited for most UV-VIS and IR microscopes with 15X and 32X objectives.
