iXon iXon Ultra and iXon3 Driving the absolute best from EMCCD technology

iXon The Industry’s Highest Performance Scientific EMCCD Cameras Andor Technology pioneered the world’s first scientific Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) cameras, shipping the initial cameras back in 2000 and winning the Photonics Circle of Excellence award. At that time, Andor coined the name ‘Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD)’, which has been adopted right across this burgeoning industry. Current trends in photon measurement are placing unprecedented demands on detector technology to perform at significantly higher levels of sensitivity and speed. Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) technology...

Why choose Andor’s iXon high performance EMCCD? Andor’s iXon Ultra and iXon3 EMCCD cameras deliver best performance across these core areas: • Fastest Frame Rates – iXon Ultra delivers >60% faster frame rates. Unique ‘Optically Centered Crop Mode’ solution for additional frame rate boost (e.g. 569 fps with 128 x 128 ROI). The principal reason for making use of Andor’s iXon EMCCD technology is to ensure the absolute highest sensitivity from a quantitative scientific digital camera, particularly under fast frame rate conditions. In particular, truly exceptional speed performance is now available...

iXon Range Pixel Format Ultimate Sensitivity ... Supercharged Ultimate Sensitivity Pixel Size Frame Rate 56 fps (595 fps with 128 x 128 cropped mode) Field of View and Sensitivity Lightning Speed and Sensitivity Quantum Efficiency (%) The iXon Ultra and iXon3 portfolio encompass a number of model variations, offering solutions for a wide range of application requirements. Whether your needs are guided more by speed, resolution, field of view, wavelength dependence or simply budget, the iXon series of market leading EMCCD cameras will provide a match. Resin-dentine interface created using an etching-and-rinse...

Optically Centered Crop Mode (Live cell super-resolution mode) Ultimate Sensitivity ... Supercharged! Facilitated by a fundamental redesign, the new iXon Ultra platform takes the popular backilluminated 512 x 512 frame transfer sensor and overclocks readout to 17 MHz, pushing speed performance to an outstanding 56 fps (full frame), whilst maintaining quantitative stability throughout. The status of ‘Ultimate Sensitivity’ is also preserved in this model, offering thermoelectric cooling down to -100°C and industry-lowest clock induced charge noise. New EX2 Technology offers extended QE performance....

Fringe Suppression Extended QE response Critical for elimination of darkcurrent detection limit. Absolute EMCCD gain selectable directly from a linear and quantitative scale. Optimize the highly flexible iXon3 for different application requirements at the click of a button. Count Convert Quantitatively capture and view data in electrons or incident photons. Applied either in real time or postprocessing, Count Convert does this important conversion for you. Patented user-initiated self-recalibration of EM gain. Exposure time fast switching provides market leading acquisition efficiency. Minimal...

Largest field of view EMCCD available TE cooling to -95°C Fringe Suppression Critical for elimination of darkcurrent detection limit. Reduced etaloning in NIR Field of View and Sensitivity Absolute EMCCD gain selectable directly from a linear and quantitative scale. Andor’s megapixel back-illuminated EMCCD combines a large field of view, single photon detection capability and > 90% Quantum Efficiency. The 1024 x 1024 frame transfer format offers unequalled thermoelectric cooling down to -95°C, industry-lowest clock induced charge noise, and operates at ~ 9 fps (full resolution). EMCCD and conventional...

Fast frame rates ideal for ion signaling microscopy and adaptive optics. Critical for elimination of darkcurrent detection limit. Absolute EMCCD gain selectable directly from a linear and quantitative scale. Optimize the highly flexible iXon3 for different application requirements at the click of a button. Count Convert Quantitatively capture and view data in electrons or incident photons. Applied either in real time or post-processing, Count Convert does this important conversion for you. Exposure time fast switching provides market leading acquisition efficiency. Critical for sustained vacuum...

iXon Performance and Innovations Industry Fastest Frame Rate – by far! Maximum frame rate performance in EMCCDs is a function of two parameters; (1) Pixel Readout Speed (horizontal); (2) Vertical Clock speed. The former dictates how rapidly charge is pushed horizontally through the EM gain register and the remaining readout electronics, while the latter dictates the speed at which charge is vertically shifted down through both the exposed sensor area and masked frame transfer area of the chip. Both iXon3 and iXon Ultra offer industry fastest vertical shift speeds, resulting in faster frame rates...

iXon Performance and Innovations EX2 Technology – Extended QE from Dual AR sensor coating Fringe Suppression Sensors Selected iXon models are now available with a new Dual Anti-Reflection coating applied to the back-illuminated sensor, affording a significant enhancement of the Quantum Efficiency performance. Selected iXon models are now available with a new Fringe Suppression property in the sensor design, reducing spatial etaloning effects that can arise through monochromatic imaging in the Near Infra-Red (NIR) wavelength range. Available on the new speed-boosted iXon Ultra 897 platform, as...

iXon Performance and Innovations OptAcquire – Flexibility need not be complicated The control architecture of the iXon is extremely flexible, meaning the camera can be adapted and optimized for a wide variety of quantitative experimental requirements, ranging from single photon counting through to slower scan, 16-bit dynamic range measurements. However, we are starkly aware that optimizing EMCCD technology is far from trivial, with various set-up parameters influencing and trading off between different camera performance characteristics. We have developed OptAcquire, a unique interface allowing...