A confocal microscopic platform with unique single molecule sensitivity
Highest data quality
- Proven track record for research applications requiring highest photon sensitivity like smFRET and FCS
- Best timing performance for many applications, ranging from dynamic FLIM of cellular environments to single emitter characterization via antibunching
Unmatched flexibility and openness
- Excitation and detection options ranging from deep UV to IR
- Open system architecture allows for many customisation options
- Open data format enables transparent acquisition, transport, and complementary analysis
An investment, which lasts many years
- High manufacturing quality guarantees long system lifetime
- Upgrade options to expand your system’s capabilities, keeping it state-of-the-art for many years
- Exceptional support: we tackle technical issues as well as scientific questions and offer user training
The MicroTime 200
A powerful and versatile time-resolved confocal microscopy platform
Advancing cutting edge science in many fields requires single molecule studies such as the quantification of molecular dynamics, molecular properties, or interaction studies. Covering a broad range of research fields in life and materials science requires a flexible and sensitive instrument.
The MicroTime 200 microscopy platform is our answer to this challenge:
- Outstanding single molecule sensitivity and highest timing precision
- Modular design allows adapting each system to your individual needs
- Supports many techniques and applications used in life and materials science
- Manufactured to the highest quality standards; ensuring long system life (more than 20 years in many cases)
- Long-term availability of upgrade options keeps you on the cutting edge of research even long after initial purchase
A range of methods provides a multifaceted view of your sample
The MicroTime 200 provides access to a wide range of methods that can be used to gain deeper insights into many scientific questions. This section gives a short overview of them as well as what the MicroTime 200 offers.
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM)
FLIM is a fluorescence imaging technique that resolves and displays the lifetimes of individual fluorophores rather than their emission spectra. The fluorescence lifetime is defined as the average time that a molecule remains in an excited state prior to returning to the ground state by emitting a photon. Since fluorescence lifetime is unrelated to concentration, absorption by the sample, sample thickness, photo-bleaching and/or excitation intensity it is less prone to artifacts than intensity based methods.
