Overview

Confocal Raman spectroscopy and imaging deliver precise chemical insights about your nanomaterials with sub-micron spatial resolution. The HORIBA Scientific LabRAM HR Evolution spectrometer, expertly integrated with AIST-NT’s SmartSPM Scanning Probe Microscope, provides a highly versatile and dependable platform for both rapid, simultaneous co-localized Raman-AFM and TERS measurements. Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) offers the chemical detail of Raman spectroscopy combined with imaging capabilities at a spatial resolution typically as fine as 10nm. Additionally, the system can be utilized solely for Raman or AFM measurements.

Key Features

1. 4 laser sources: 405 nm, 532 nm, 633 nm, 785 nm
2. There are three grating options that you can use with the LabRam. By selecting either the 300 l/mm, 600 l/mm, or 1800 l/mm the user can optimize their signal intensity, measurement range, and spectral resolution for their experimental needs.
3. Automated mapping routines enable precise measurement of surface features. Rough surfaces can be maps using the Duoscan feature and SWIFT Mode minimizes data processing delays. 
4. Stokes or anti-stokes Raman scattering modes can be measured.
5. Custom software allows the user adjusting laser intensity, scan range, and a variety of other measurement and acquisition parameters to fine tune the measurement to the specific needs of their samples.