MiniFlex offers a wide range of flexibility in the newly-launched 6th Generation benchtop XRD system. With the choice of a 600 watts or 300 watts X-ray tube (no external chiller required), it makes an ideal system for qualitative or quantitative analysis. Features of the new 6th Generation MiniFlex include:• High speed silicon strip detector as standard• 2D detector option with the HyPix400–MF: the latest HPAD detector for 0D, 1D and 2D measurement• 8 position sample changer The MiniFlex X-ray diffractometer is a multipurpose analytical instrument that can determine:• phase identification and quantification• percent (%) crystallinity• crystallite size and strain• lattice…
Launched in 2018 the New Rigaku Smartlab is a novel high resolution Diffractometer (XRD). The new Smartlab continues to build on the excellent success of the previous version and incorporates a number of new features including the new SmartLab Studio II software that includes the Rigaku intelligent User Guidance software. The software guides the user through the various steps required to perform different experiments. Features include:• Available with and in-plane arm (5-axis goniometer) for thin film work• Highest flux X-ray source: PhotonMax 9kW• HyPix-3000 high energy resolution 2D HPAD detector• New CBO family, with fully automated beam switchable CBO-Auto and…
The new Smartlab SE is a new mid-range, cost effective and highly-versatile automated multipurpose X-ray diffractometer from Rigaku. It features:• 3kW sealed tube with Bragg-Brentano, parallel and divergent beam optics• high speed detector• semiconductor detector as standard component• selectable D, 1D & 2-D detector• low cost and improved performance. The new Smartlab Studio II for measuring and data processing:• consolidates all data processing packages into one area• enables automatic user guidance function for rapid instrument setup• allows single or 3-phase power optionsprovides a wide range of sample attachments to meet demanding applications:• SAXS• USAXS• micro-area• capillary, battery and non-ambient attachments….
Bulk samples such as metal blocks, ceramic sintered bodies, or pharmaceutical tablets are aggregates of microcrystals that can be measured by powder X-ray diffraction. In conventional powder diffraction measurements, samples need to be filled into a sample holder the size of a typical coin and placed in the center of the diffractometer. Hence, to perform measurements of bulk samples, it has been necessary to cut or pulverize samples according to the sample holder, or to use an attachment with an electrically driven adjustment axis in the thickness direction of the sample. With Rigaku’s bulk sample holder, thick bulk samples can…
Quantification of a trace amount of polymorphic impurities is critical especially in the quality control of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). Conventional quantitative analysis by X-ray diffraction (XRD) requires calibration curve preparation, reference intensity ratio (RIR) or crystal structure (Crystallographic Information File, CIF). However, the materials of APIs are often missing from the database. Therefore, their quantification is not straightforward. Rigaku have developed a novel quantitative analysis method called “Direct Derivation (DD)” that requires only XRD data and chemical formula(1)- (3). Here, quantitative analysis of trace amounts of the hydrate phase of API is performed using the DD method and the…