Bruker AXS has announced the Quantax Quad, an innovative energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) system for x-ray microanalysis on electron microscopes. The new system, powered by the company's Esprit software, delivers significantly faster EDS results across a broad range of applications, including field-emission, environmental, and low-vacuum scanning electron microscopes. The Quantax Quad features the Quad XFlash detector, which incorporates four independently operating 10-mm2 silicon drift detectors with integrated anodes and FETs. This arrangement provides the high energy resolution of a single 10-mm2 crystal at four times the count rate, and accepts maximum input count rates in excess of 2 million counts per second. Standard energy resolution is better than 133 eV at 10 000 cps. Bruker AXS Inc, 5465 East Cheryl Parkway, Madison, WI 53711-5373, http://www.bruker-axs.com
