Imagine this scenario:

You're analyzing a contaminated sample under your high-powered optical microscope. You can clearly see the foreign particles, but you have no idea what they're made of. Are they polymers? Oils? Or some unknown contaminant?

This is the fundamental limitation of traditional microscopy: it shows you structure, but not composition.

Until now.

Infrared microscopy combines the magnification power of conventional microscopy with the chemical identification capabilities of FTIR spectroscopy. It's like giving your microscope the ability to "see" molecular fingerprints.

samples remain intact

detects even microscopic contaminants

down to several microns

capabilities

and identification

in drug formulations

mapping in tablets

assessment

and uniformity measurement

mechanism investigation

identification and matching

for accident investigation

in document examination

on circuit boards

studies

of multi-layer components