Isotopx is a smaller but far more dynamic company than GV or Micromass. Many of our staff began their careers with VG and have been in involved in mass spectrometry all of their working lives. We know our customers very well and pride ourselves on the quality of the service we provide and the strength of our products. Our focus solely on TIMS allows us to implement long-term plans in the knowledge that engineering and development resources do not need to be shared with other technologies.

Immediately after Isotopx was formed, a program of modernisation on the Isoprobe T was commenced. The ion-counting Daly has always been a unique part of the VG/Isotopx TIMS offering. To ensure that the Daly continued to be the best axial ion counting system available the complete system (detector and counting electronics) were updated. As far as possible our engineers ensured that the new Daly can be fitted as an upgrade to older Isoprobe and some Sector 54 instruments.

At the same time, new state-of-the art focussing electronics were developed. This not only improved instrument performance but it brought control of design and production into the company and away from outside firms.

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Products

Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (TIMS)

• The Phoenix TIMS
• Phoenix builds upon our strong heritage in TIMS design. It combines our proven 1:1 optics with state-of-the-art electronics and detector technology to produce what we believe to be the most stable TIMS ever.

Noble Gas

• NGX
• A new multi-collector noble gas mass spectrometer from ISOTOPX
• In recent years the noble gas mass spectrometer marketplace has seen moves to increasingly complex instruments with the appearance of movable multi-collectors and ion optics that can modify instrument dispersion. These features were developed to improve instrument versatility but the increased complexity has too often resulted in instruments that require significant effort by their users to produce data at the anticipated quality.
  o NGX was conceived on the premise that mass spectrometers should be fundamentally stable and inherently easy to use. NGX is a multi-collector system that uses conventional ion optics coupled with the very latest electronics, software and clean production techniques. Much of the technology in the NGX has been taken from our successful Phoenix TIMS systems, technology that is tried and tested and known to be amongst the most robust in the industry.