FT-IR and Raman collections added to portfolio

Thermo Electron has announced the addition of the leading Omnic-format libraries to its comprehensive informatics solution for the management and searching of spectral libraries.

Now spectroscopists can perform wide-ranging spectral searching using a single software application - Thermo's powerful Spectral ID search program.

Spectral libraries are searchable databases used by scientists conducting materials identification and materials research in a broad range of industries including plastics and polymers, chemicals and petrochemicals, semiconductors, food and beverage, forensics, and pharmaceuticals.

By matching the pattern of a specific spectrum to the reference spectra stored in the library, researchers can solve analytical problems quickly and reliably.

These can involve quality control issues, chemical structure determination, formulation analyses, etc More than fifty FT-IR and Raman spectra collections are now part of Thermo's libraries portfolio, which also includes Chemical Concepts, John Wiley, and Nist.

The renowned Omnic libraries are among the largest collections of high quality FT-IR and Raman reference spectra and include the popular Aldrich condense phase IR and Raman libraries.

Most are available in high resolution format, with spectra measured at 4 wavenumber (4cm-1) optical resolution and with data values expressed in 16-bit representation.

Utilising Thermo's powerful spectral Spectral ID searching software program spectroscopists can effectively share and search multiple spectral libraries.

Spectral ID provides a fast and easy way to create and search libraries for many analytical techniques.

True client/server technology for centralised storage, access, and management of all libraries is available with the Spectral ID Server.

Spectral ID is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, as is the rest of Thermo's current desktop spectroscopy product line.