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| July 2010 |
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Transition Technologies to distribute Photon LIBS systems in Canada
Photon Machines, Inc. (Redmond, WA) and Transition Technologies, Inc. (Toronto, Canada) have signed a new distribution agreement for Transition to distribute Photon's LIBS products in Canada. Transition Technologies will offer sales and service support for Photon's customers in Canada. "We are very excited to have Transition Technologies on board," says Photon's Steve Buckley, "bringing their 16 years of analytical solutions experience to our customers in Canada." Transition Technologies is an ISO 9001 (2008) certified partner.
Transition Technologies has been focused on analytical instrumentation, particularly elemental analysis, since the company's inception in 1994. Founder Scott McGeorge and his team are well-versed in a variety of applications in both laboratory and industrial settings. A link to Transition Technologies can be found here (click).
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Spectrecology is a new representative for Photon Machines' LIBS Products
Photon Machines, Inc. (Redmond, WA) and Spectrecology (Jasper, GA) are pleased to announce a new partnership whereby Spectrecology will represent Photon Machines' Insight™ and ZAP™ Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) systems. The Insight™ is an industrial-grade LIBS system for real-time material classification, qualitative element ratioing, and quantitative elemental analysis. The ZAP™ is a slimmed-down LIBS system intended for the educational market or for laboratories starting out in LIBS. Both feature innovative machine-control software and analysis packages.
Mike Morris, the President of Spectrecology and a co-founder of Ocean Optics, said "We are excited to be able to represent LIBS systems with such versatility, quality, and obvious industrial applications." Photon Machines' Vice President Steve Buckley notes that "LIBS is in its ascendency, with numerous compelling applications. We are quite glad to have someone with Mike's depth of experience and understanding of spectroscopy on our team. Mike's involvement will clearly enhance the reach and impact of our LIBS line of products." Direct connection to Spectrecology and Photon Machines' LIBS products can be found here (click).
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CETAC partners with Photon Machines, Inc. for the advancement of LA-ICP-MS
(Omaha, NE/Redmond, WA) – June 25, 2010
Photon Machines Inc., Redmond, WA and CETAC Technologies, Omaha, NE, today announced a joint venture for the purpose of advancing LA-ICP-MS technology and offering a full range of laser ablation products world-wide. Initially the companies will co-brand CETAC’s 266 and 213 nm Nd:YAG laser based products plus a new generation of Photon Machines excimer laser ablation system commencing with the 10th European Workshop on Laser Ablation in Kiel, Germany from June 29 to July 1.
“This collaboration brings Photon Machines’ experienced design team and long history of laser ablation innovations together with CETAC’s sample introduction expertise and global sales and service support network” said Steve Shuttleworth, Marketing and Applications Manager at Photon Machines. “It will provide customers with a broad selection of laser ablation products, in-depth applications knowledge and regional support.” Jeff Rosenbohm, President of CETAC Technologies, adds “This partnership allows us to offer the scientific community not only cutting-edge laser ablation technology, but also unprecedented support. Rock-solid instruments combined with unsurpassed technical expertise is what our customers can come to expect.”
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| May 2010 |
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New research grant from US Dept. of Energy to study optical properties of nanoparticles
Redmond, WA - Photon Machines is pleased to announce a new grant from the US Department of Energy. This grant, entitled "Towards Simultaneous Single Particle Chemical and Optical Characterization: Development of a Multi-angle Optical Scattering Module for the Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer," will investigate the scattering properties of individual aerosol particles. Coupled with the particle size and chemical information that the Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer already yields, if successful this project will provide a complete picture of the properties of atmospheric aerosol particles relevant to climate.
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| April 2010 |
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Photon Machines Laser Ablation system used in Science paper yielding insights on Mars age
San Diego, CA - Prof. Thomas Lapen, a geosciences faculty member at the University of Houston, used a Photon Machines Analyte.193 to make significant discoveries about the timeline of volcanic activity on Mars. The groundbreaking research was reported in the journal Science (click) 16 April 2010, V328, p347. A discussion of the work can be found here (click), including video.
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Dr. Stephen Shuttleworth joins Photon Machines as Manager, Marketing and Applications
San Diego, CA - Photon Machines welcomes Dr. Stephen Shuttleworth as Marketing and Applications Manager. Dr. Shuttleworth, known to many in the laser ablation and spectroscopy community, received his BSc and PhD degrees in chemistry from the University of Manchester and an MBA from Kaplan University with Sigma Beta Delta honors.
Steve's laser ablation career started out at VG Elemental where he worked as a research and applications scientist on LA-ICP-MS methods while providing product support for Europe. This led to a British Nuclear Fuels sponsored research associate position at Manchester where Steve attained his PhD. Steve's research focused on techniques for analysis of chemical and radioactive contamination using laser ablation.
Steve then moved to the U.S. to become Laboratory Manager for the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, a state of the art teaching and research laboratory for atomic spectroscopy, which included one of the first high resolution ICP-MS systems, including laser ablation, in the U.S. There he organized the first international high resolution ICP-MS user group meeting in St Louis in 1996.
Subsequently, Steve joined Merchantek as Product Manager, Laser Ablation Systems with global responsibilities for business development and application engineering. Merchantek went on to became the leading provider of laser ablation systems for mass spectrometry and was subsequently acquired by New Wave Research. After several years in this capacity Steve moved to Thermo Electron Corporation as Regional Manager and Product Specialist for quadrupole ICP-MS, then Director of Sales and Marketing in North America for GV Instruments Inc. (stable isotope MS, noble gas MS, ICP-MS, TIMS). After GV was acquired by Thermo in 2006, Steve moved to Varian Instruments where he continued to practice laser ablation and build his knowledge base.
Dr. Shuttleworth may be reached at shutts "at" photon-machines.com.
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| January 2010 |
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New research grant from the NSF to chemically chararcterize nanoparticles
Redmond, WA - Photon Machines commences work on a grant from the US National Science Foundation. The SBIR Phase I award, announced in November 2009, is for a project entitled "Design and Development of a Comprehensive Instrument for Measurement of Aerosol Size and Elemental Composition." The aim of the project is to characterize nanoparticles by size and chemical composition, using variations on Photon Machines' LIBS technologies. The project has a total budget of $149,765.
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Two talks at IFPAC 2010
Redmond, WA - Dr. Buckley is invited to give two talks at the 2010 International Federation of Process Analytical Chemistry, one on the development of industrial LIBS solutions, and one on the application of chemometrics to solve tough analysis problems. Let us know if you are interested in recieving this content!
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| December 2009 |
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Insight™ ships: Merry Christmas!
Redmond, WA - The first Insight™ ships from Redmond, WA, with several more in the queue.
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| July 2009 |
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D&N Scientific Named Midwest Distributor
Redmond, WA - D&N Scientific of Columbus, OH has been named a Midwest Distributor for Photon Machines' LIBS systems. Led by Dan Willoughby, D&N has served as a high-end distributor for spectroscopy systems for over 10 years. Photon is glad to bring someone of Dan's caliber on board to bring outstanding representation to our LIBS products.
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Photon Machines' Leadership in LIBS Recognized
Redmond, WA - Photon Machines is pleased to announce that Vice President Dr. Steven Buckley has been named Chairman of the North American LIBS symposium for 2013. Dr. Buckley has served on the scientific board of the International Conference on Laser Plasma Spectroscopy since its inception in 2000, and on the Advisory Board of the NASLIBS conference since its inception in 2007. He has over 50 publications and papers on LIBS. Dr. Buckley will also serve as Vice Chair of the 2011 NASLIBS conference, to be held in Miami Beach, Florida. |
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Prof. David Hahn named to Photon Machines' Scientific Advisory Board
Redmond, WA - Prof. David Hahn, an innovator in LIBS science and technology, has been named to Photon Machines' Scientific Advisory Board. In this capacity, Prof. Hahn will ensure that Photon Machines keeps its substanitial technical leadership in LIBS and will facilitate new applications for LIBS. Dr. Hahn serves as the Knox T. Millsaps Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida and is also the Vice Chair of the MAE Department at the University of Florida. He is on the Editorial Board for the journal Applied Spectroscopy. |
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| June 2009 |
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Addition to the team
Redmond, WA - Photon Machines is excited to announce the hiring of Dr. Gregg Lithgow as a Senior Scientist. Gregg comes to Photon Machines from the National Research Council of Canada, where he has been a major contributor to developing applied LIBS systems at one of the world's premier research institutes. Gregg brings substantial LIBS expertise to Photon and will contribute to product and method development. |
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Femtosecond is second to none
San Diego, CA - Photon Machines Analyte 198.fs femtosecond laser ablation-ICP-MS system at a U.S. University sets major milestones in performance, rivaling solution-based ICP systems in isotope separation and precision. Please call for details! |
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| May 2009 |
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LIBS platform for microanalysis
Redmond, WA - Photon Machines announces the Insight™ Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) system. Designed for microanalysis, the Insight features ablation spot sizes smaller than 10 microns and a broadband echelle spectrometer coupled with an intensified CCD camera. |
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| March 2009 |
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Sensitive toxic metals detection with LIBS
Redmond, WA - Photon Machines Asian customer uses a Crossfire™ double-pulse LIBS system to measure concentrations of beryllium as low as 250 picograms / cm2 on filter paper to ensure worker safety in air monitoring application. |
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| October 2008 |
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New LIBS Analysis software
Redmond, WA - Photon is pleased to release addLIBS™, the first analysis software designed specifically for LIBS analysis. Designed for spectral exploration and method creation, addLIBS makes it easy to develop semi-quantitative and quantitative LIBS methods for real-time analysis! |
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| December 2007 |
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| Photon Machines introduces 1st UV femtosecond laser ablation system San Diego, CA – PMI released the Analyte.198 fs, the only commercially available, UV laser ablation system for ICP and noble gas mass spectrometry. The A198fs laser generates 0.5mJ at 198nm and delivers surplus energy to the sample. Its ultra-fast pulse length and sub-200nm wavelength couples well all materials ensuring total ablations and efficient ionization for near matrix independence. |
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| August 2007 |
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New tunable diode laser measurement systems announced
Redmond, WA - Photon receives orders for new tunable diode laser measurement products, the Canary(tm) high-speed measurement system and the Bloodhound(tm) multi-gas measurement system. Both systems optically measure concentrations of small gases and gas temperatures using small, rugged tunable diode lasers. The Canary is designed to accurately report changes in gas concentrations at high speed with full phase information, while the Bloodhound is a flexible system designed for multi-gas, multi-location measurements suitable for process understanding and control applications. |
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| August 2007 |
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Photon Machines opens Redmond, WA Office and Lab
Redmond, WA - Photon Machines announces the opening of a new office and laboratory in Redmond, WA. Led by Dr. Steve Buckley, this office will focus on product development and research. Already supported by DOD funding for spectroscopy research, the laboratory also houses Photon's LIBS testing facility. |
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| June 2007 |
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Photon Machines Announces New Short-Pulse Excimer LA System
San Diego, California - Photon Machines releases the Analyte 193, the new price-performance leader in laser ablation systems. With a homogenized flat beam and short pulse-length 193nm excimer laser, this system provides unmatched results for sensitive laser ablation measurements. |
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| March 2007 |
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Photon Machines Ships First Second-Generation Crossfire
San Diego, California - Photon Machines shipped the first second-generation Crossfire(tm) dual-pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) system. This capable platform allows repeatable single- and double-pulse LIBS elemental analysis with a variety of laser and detector options. |
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| September 2006 |
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Photon Machines Ships Fusions.810
San Diego, California - The patent-pending Fusions thermo-chronometry system debuts. The first system is shipped with an integrated 810nm diode laser. The FUSIONS.810 is complimented by the FUSIONS 10.6 CO2 laser heating for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. |
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| August 1, 2006 |
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Dr. Steven Buckley, Technical Director of Photon Machines
Dr. Steve Buckley joins the team as Technical Director to bring added strength and experience in laser-based optical diagnostics and material processing to the advancement of its innovative analytical instruments and micromachining systems.
Formerly a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/buckley/, Steve has 15 years of experience in applicable core technologies, including work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and as a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been a major contributor to the development of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) as a practical diagnostic. Steve engineered field deployable systems for real-time stack and remote measurement of particles and gases using LIBS and tunable diode laser (TDL) absorption spectroscopy and has worked widely as a consultant on LIBS technology. Steve can be contacted at buckley@photon-machines.com. |
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