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Advices for Purchasing UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

Advices for Purchasing UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

Advices for Purchasing UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

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Hi, I am not sure if i post at the right forum. I am intending to purchase a UV-Vis spectrophotometer for absorption, transmission and reflection testing. May I know which brand of the equipment is recommended? I am particularly concern with high resolution features and low noise background.

I come across a brand called "Mc pherson", any idea if it is a good brand?

Hope to hear from all of you soon!

RE: Advices for Purchasing UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

Some brand names are Perkin-Elmer, Agilent (spun off from Hewlett-Packard), Beckman (now Beckman Coulter), Hitachi, Shimadzu, & Varian.  Hach sells small stuff, used mostly for water analyses.

I scanned through the spectrophotometer listings at LabX & got to the 7th page before encountering McPherson (a Fluorescence Spectrophotometer).

Check out the companies websites for support, publications, etc. Probably best to go with a global company that's been around a long time -- helps when needing parts or service.

An alphaabetical listing of company links:
http://www.chem.agilent.com/Scripts/PCol.asp?lPage=315
http://www.beckmancoulter.com/products/Discipline/Life_Science_Research/pr_disc_gen_spect.asp?bhcp=1
http://www.hach.com/hc/static.template/templateName=HcBridgePage.HcDR5K-DR2800-TNTplus.htm/PREVIOUS_BREADCRUMB_ID=/SESSIONID|CVRFd055Wm5kV1Z6ZEVWVFMwZEtNVEUyT1E9PUNUSTFPRE01TQ==|
http://www.hitachi-hitec.com/global/science/appli/appli_uv.html
http://www.mcphersoninc.com/
http://las.perkinelmer.com/Catalog/default.htm?CategoryID=UV%2fVis+Spectrophotometers
http://www1.shimadzu.com/products/lab/spectro.html
http://www.varianinc.com/cgi-bin/nav?products/spectr/uv/index&cid=JMMINJMIFM

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