Achieve accurate steel microstructure analysis

Enhance your metallurgical lab's efficiency and precision with the Thermo Scientific Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM. Designed for high imaging quality and comprehensive particle analysis, this system helps to ensure swift and accurate material assessments, helping you meet industrial quality standards confidently. Its standout automated steel inclusion analysis delivers unbiased, actionable reports with minimal user effort. The user-friendly interface and integrated automation make it easy to master, increasing throughput for both new and seasoned users. With an integrated energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) detector, it provides detailed compositional data crucial for failure analysis and non-metallic inclusion characterization. Elevate your analysis capabilities and achieve exceptional quality control with the Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM.


Meet metal industry’s quality standards with confidence

In the demanding field of metallurgy, maintaining high imaging quality and comprehensive particle analysis is essential. The Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM is designed to meet these needs, offering exceptional performance for busy metallurgists. This system allows you to quickly and efficiently analyze materials, enabling a swift response to customer claims of faults and failures.

Meet steel industry quality standards with Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM

Automated unbiased answers for steel inclusion analysis

One of the standout features of the Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM is its automated steel inclusion analysis. This capability provides invaluable insights into the smallest inclusions, delivering actionable, ready-to-read reports. These reports summarize findings in an unbiased manner, requiring minimal effort from the user. This automation helps ensure consistent and accurate results, enhancing the reliability of your analysis.


Efficient and easy-to-use

The Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM boasts a user-friendly interface and integrated automation for routine tasks. This compact desktop system not only increases throughput but is also easy to master. Both new and existing users can quickly become proficient with minimal training, making it an ideal choice for any metallurgical lab.

The Phenom Particle X Steel can easily report out measurements in a ternary phase diagram, giving immediate insights in the compositional spread of metals.

Extensive elemental analysis

Equipped with an integrated energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) detector, the Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM enables detailed compositional data collection. This data is crucial for both failure analysis and the automated characterization of non-metallic inclusions in steel. The ability to perform extensive elemental analysis helps ensure that you can thoroughly understand the materials you are working with, leading to better quality control and improved product performance.

 

Overall, the Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM empowers metallurgists to meet industrial quality standards with confidence. Its combination of high-quality imaging, automated analysis, ease of use, and extensive elemental analysis makes it an indispensable tool for any metallurgical application.


Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM technical specifications

  Phenom ParticleX Steel Desktop SEM 
Sample size
  • Up to 100x100 mm (up to 36x12 mm pin stubs) 
  • Up to 40 mm height (optional up to 65 mm) 
Source type Cerium hexaboride (CeB6)
Max. resolution <10 nm
Detectors and Signals
  • Backscattered electron detector (standard) 
  • Energy-dispersive X-ray (EDS) detector (optional) 
  • Everhart-Thornley (ETD) SE detector (optional) 
Software options and accessories
  • ChemiSEM Technology 
  • PPI/PPA 
  • ProSuite Software
  • Maps 3 Software 
  • Avizo Software 
  • Avizo Trueput Software
Footprint 96 (w) x 293 (d) x 290 (h) mm, 82 kg
Acceleration voltage range 
  • 5 kV–15 kV 
  • Advanced mode: adjustable range between 4.8 kV and 20.5 kV imaging and analysis mode 
Low vacuum mode (stating pressure ranges) Pa - 1 Pa - 60 Pa

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