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Technique: Fourier Transform Infrared microimaging

Infrared microscope

Bruker HYPERION 3000, Infrared Microscope equipped with Focal Plane Array Detector System that allows high resolution micro-images and can be used in characterisation of cross-sections. The microscope is equipped also with a Grazing Angle Objective that allows very precise surface analyses as the penetration of IR light is only of a few nm, which is important in surface degradation studies.

Potential Results

FTIR micro-images can be obtained in samples (or cross sections) that are placed under the FTIR microscope. In each pixel a spectrum can be obtained and selected spectral bands can be integrated through the whole are of the image. That way individual components (binders, pigments, fillers, etc.) can be mapped through the whole image and can for example offer the insight into the layering structure of samples.