Identify Contamination Faster and with Complete Confidence
When contamination threatens battery performance, yield and safety, you need answers you can trust. AZtecBattery helps you rapidly identify contaminant particles and understand their source, enabling faster corrective action and greater confidence in your manufacturing and R&D decisions.
- Accurately identify the elemental composition of contaminants, making it easier to determine their origin and eliminate recurring issues.
- Analyse more than 120,000 particles per hour (hardware dependent) without compromising confidence in results.
- Avoid misidentifying contaminants thanks to stable spectral resolution at high throughput and outstanding low-energy performance, helping you accurately detect and distinguish light elements that are often critical in battery materials and contamination investigations
Adapt Quickly to New Contamination Challenges
Contamination problems are rarely predictable. As processes evolve, materials change and new contaminant types emerge, your analysis workflow needs to keep pace.
AZtecBattery provides the flexibility to handle changing requirements without lengthy method development, helping you save time and reduce operational costs.
- Detect contaminants regardless of whether they appear brighter or darker than the surrounding powder.
- Quickly update classification schemes to accommodate newly discovered contamination sources.
- Reconstruct large particles across multiple fields of view to ensure accurate size, morphology and compositional measurements.
- Target particles within critical size ranges using advanced morphological filtering, reducing the time spent analysing irrelevant material.
- Use intelligent filtering and classification tools to focus data collection where it delivers the greatest value.
- Automatically assess contamination levels through survey scans and optimise acquisition strategies without operator intervention.
- Maintain sharp focus across large sample areas with automated Z-focus capability.
Increase Throughput Without Missing Critical Contaminants
When analysing large volumes of samples, the pressure is on to deliver rapid results while still detecting the smallest and most significant contamination events.
AZtecBattery combines powerful software with industry-leading detector technology to maximise throughput without sacrificing accuracy.
- Detect even the smallest contaminant particles with greater statistical confidence using Ultim® Max Infinity or Xplore/XploreCompact detectors with sensor areas up to 170 mm².
- Scale throughput further with optional multi-detector configurations.
- Reveal small particles that might otherwise be missed using advanced scan strategies and dedicated electronics.
Standardise Contamination Analysis Across Sites and Suppliers
Inconsistent analysis methods can lead to conflicting results, delayed investigations and uncertainty when working with suppliers.
AZtecBattery helps establish a consistent, repeatable workflow so that every operator, laboratory and supplier follows the same process and produces comparable results.
- Guide users through every stage of the workflow with configurable instructions.
- Reduce training requirements with intuitive software designed around a clear, guided workflow.
- Improve reproducibility by using pre-defined analysis settings and standardised operating procedures embedded directly within the software.
Get More Value from Every Battery Investigation
When contamination is discovered, identifying it is often only the first step. Understanding its impact and investigating related material characteristics are critical to solving the problem.
AZtecBattery enables deeper investigation without moving between multiple software platforms or instruments.
- Transition seamlessly from automated particle analysis to detailed X-ray mapping and AutoPhaseMap (FeaturePhase) investigations of identified contaminants.
- Extend your battery materials research using integrated EDS and EBSD analysis within the same software environment.
- Add Ultim® Extreme Infinity for low-energy analysis of beam-sensitive materials, unlocking valuable information that might otherwise be inaccessible.
