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Liquid Analysis: Spectroscopy, Colour
News Release from: Owlstone | Subject: Lonestar
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 May 2008
New multi-target field programmable
analyser
A powerful new chemical detection system has been released by Cambridge based Owlstone, based on their proprietary and established FAIMS (Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometer) technology
The new Lonestar instrument offers the flexibility to provide both rapid alerts and detailed sample analysis Lonestar can be trained to respond to a broad range of chemical scenarios and is easily integrated with other sensors and third party systems to provide a complete monitoring solution
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 19 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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This makes Lonestar ideally suited to a wide variety of applications ranging from on-line process monitoring to laboratory based R+D.
The FAIMS sensor acts as a reprogrammable filter, separating and identifying chemicals according to their characteristic mobility.
The sensor 'filters out' the background chemicals that do not conform to the mobility signature of the user-defined target chemical.
Hence one of the key benefits is the power and flexibility of Lonestar to be user programmed to detect a very broad range of chemicals.
The Owlstone miniaturised FAIMS device is manufactured from silicon using conventional MEMs fabrication techniques.
Says European Business Development Manager, Chris Prior-Jones, 'Unlike miniaturising IMS drift tubes the scaling laws for FAIMS enable performance improvements in sensitivity and resolution, while batch MEMS fabrication techniques result in significant reduction in cost and size'.
Key benefits of this technology are:.
* Rapid (1 sec) specific detection at ppb level.
* Parallel multi-target capability.
* Field re-programmable.
* Compact, hand portable hardware platforms.
* FAIMS chip available for integration with other detection and analysis technologies.
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