Advanced EDS/XRF Elemental Analysis & Imaging Software

IRIDIUM ULTRA

Iridium Ultra software

For our SEM-EDS, SEM-XRF and microEDXRF products, IXRF offers Iridium Ultra: an all-inclusive state-of-the-art software suite featuring a myriad of comprehensive qualitative and quantitative capabilities supporting both e-beam and X-ray excitation. Included are stage control and automation, data acquisition, spectral manipulation (including deconvolution and artifact removal), mapping, imaging, and statistical analysis tools. The platform is unsurpassed in it’s ability to provide elemental and phase mapping, line scans, critical dimensions (CD) as well as qualitative and quantitative elemental analyses. For the ATLAS microXRF line, this includes analysis of solids, liquids, particles, powders and thin films.

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Spectra Overview

  • Identifying Elements
  • Spectrum Processing
  • Annotations
  • Spectrum Overlay
  • Spectrum Reporting

Identify Elements

Kα Energy Markers help easily identify elemental peaks

Identify elements through cursor ID by selecting individual energy channels.

Spectrum Processing

• Peak separation using Gaussian deconvolution
• Automatic peak-overlap correction
• Automatic escape and sum peak removal
• Automatic Standardless Quantification using ZAF

Annotation

Selecting Annotations from the Spectrum toolbar opens a new window that allows the user to measure, label, add text, etc. on the spectrum. These annotations are fully customizable and can be exported with the spectrum.

Spectrum Overlay

Spectra can be overlaid to easily compare the relative compositions in samples

Spectrum Reporting

Create a simple spreadsheet report of multiple spectra’s quantitative analysis.

IMAGING OVERVIEW

  • Image Acquisition
  • Analysis Suite (Toolbar)
  • Morphology
  • Segmentation
  • Stitching/Montage
  • Automated Particle & Multi-point Analysi

IMAGE DIRECT ACQUIRE

The Direct Acquire tools allow for EDS data to be collected by selecting the region of interest from the SEM image. This includes spot/rectangle/free hand spectra as well as maps and linescans on the image.

MULTIPART ACQUIRE

Multipart Acquire allows fully automated spectrum analysis with customized EDS settings and automatically generated spectrum analysis reports. This includes single point, raster area, and freehand line spectrum acquisition.

SEGMENTATION

Image Segmentation provides a visual representation of different phases in an image. Based upon histogram analysis, you can see the percent area each phase occupies.

MORPHOLOGY

Image Morphology provides particle information through image binarization. Image binarization transforms the image into grayscale based upon histogram data.
This allows you to label and measure pixels to provide an abundance of morphological data.

LINESCANS OVERVIEW

  • Multielement Linescan Acquisition
  • Linescan Overlay
  • DataView (Intensity/Concentration)
  • MultiScan
Iridium Ultra software

MAPPING OVERVIEW

  • Mutielement Quantitative Mapping
  • Overlay Maps
  • Map Analysis Suite (Toolbar)
  • Extract Spectra (Freehand, Spot, Area)
  • Extract Linescan
  • DataView (Intensity/Concentration)
  • Beam Drift Correction
  • Maximum Pixel Spectrum
  • Map stitch & montage
  • Automate Stage and Beam automation
  • Composition Mapping
  • Phase Analysis

MAPPING ANNOTATIONS

Selecting Annotations from the Map toolbar opens a new window that allows the user to measure, label, add text, etc. on the map.

SPECTRA FROM MAP

Combine X-Ray Map pixels to extract spectra from a region of interest

ELEMENTAL INTENSITIES

Selecting Element Intensities from the Map tab will open a new window. A spot/rectangle/freehand can be placed on the image to compare the intensity/concentration.

PHASE MAPS

Selecting Phase Maps from the Map tab will identify different phases within a sample and quantitatively analyze the elements within each phase.

The different phases will be graphically displayed in a map alongside phase-specific overlaid spectra to provide a qualitative comparison.

RATIO MAPS

Analyze the element ratios in a region of interest and displays a comparison of element weight percent ratios.

COMPOSITION MAPPING

Selecting Composition Mapping from the Map tab will identify map locations containing specific element concentrations according to specified parameters.

Quantitative analysis is performed on every pixel where a calculated concentration is compared to a specified concentration. Matching pixels are then displayed in the composition map.

QUANTITATIVE ELEMENT/COMPONENT MAPS

Quantitative Maps convert the displayed pixel data to Concentration (wt%) from Intensity (cps).

This feature can display the quantitative maps as either elemental maps or components maps (ie; oxides).

Software screen
Thermal / Heat Maps

Thermal / Heat Maps

Image Analysis

Image Analysis

Peak fitting & Deconvolution

Peak fitting & Deconvolution

Line Scan From a Map

Line Scan From a Map

Morphology From a Map

Morphology From a Map

Elemental Map Overlays

Elemental Map Overlays

Morphology

Morphology

Least Squares Calibration

Least Squares Calibration

Automatic Phase ID on Maps

Automatic Phase ID on Maps

Reporting within Software

Reporting within Software

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