DELTA RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

DELTA R&D Handheld XRF Analyzer

DELTA handheld XRF analyzer used for in-situ analysis in the field.

DELTA Research & Discovery Handheld XRF Analyzers

DELTA Research & Discovery Handheld XRF Analyzers are for elemental analysis of Mg to U, PPM to 100%. Analyze 25+ elements on location for immediate results when time is of the essence & materials can't be transported, damaged, or altered. Calibration models, multiple spectra viewing, & optional PC & accessories for new levels of research and discovery.

The DELTA Line

Rugged, High Performance Handheld XRF

See and feel the DELTA difference. Our analyzers are compact and robust from probe to trigger to display, with sophisticated XRF technology that's better, faster, and more responsive. From initial boot-up to the final result, the DELTA is the optimum solution for all your analytical needs. The DELTA line gives you the ultimate experience in field-portable handheld XRF analysis, providing fast measurements with accuracy, precision, detection limit, and light element measurement capabilities built into a compact single-chasis frame wrapped in robust industrial-grade body casing.

  • 4 W X-ray tube, 200µA current (max) plus optimized beam settings
  • Tight geometry for exceptional LODs and high analysis throughout
  • Large-Area SDD option plus customized X-ray provides exceptional light element sensitivity
  • Patent-pending automatic barometric pressure correction adjusts calibration as needed
  • Lightning fast bootup and data acquisition: Faster testing, more results
  • Floating Point Processor: Provides more calculations in less time and leverages more advanced calibration algorithms

DELTA Handheld XRF Analyzer

  • Integrated Bluetooth for data input and output
  • Ergonomic rubberized handle for enhanced grip
  • Analysis indicator lights visible from 360°
  • Bright, responsive, color touch screen display
  • Accelerometer technology puts the unit into sleep mode when not in use to conserve power; logs impacts for tool management
  • USB interface port for high-speed data download and seamless PC control
  • Hot Swap: the rechargeable battery can be replaced without having to turn off or re-standardize the unit.

Docking Station with Automatic Charging and Calibration Check

The unique DELTA Docking Station means not ever having to power down the analyzer. The station charges the analyzer battery and a spare, and performs periodic calibration checks. The analyzer can be removed at anytime for immediate testing.

  • Additional Battery Charger
  • DC Outlet
  • Power and Battery Indicator Lights
  • Connect to a PC for Data Management
  • USB Connector Port
DELTA Handheld XRF Analyzer on charging dock.

Tough on the Outside

Ideally suited for field work, the DELTA is equipped with our trademark weatherproof, dust proof, protective housing.

  • Ruggedized casing manufactured to industrial standards - no PDA or movable screen for superior reliability
  • Superior field use ergonomics with rubberized grip for ease of handling during all-day use
  • Large, rear-facing, motion-responsive, transflexive touch screen for clear viewing; automatically brightens in sunlight
  • An external heat sink engineered for extreme temperature and high-power use
  • Time-saving hot-swappable batteries - enables rechargeable battery to be replaced without having to turn off or re-standardize the unit

DELTA Handheld XRF Analyzer testing soil using soil attachment. Handsfree Soil Foot

Smart on the Inside

Engineered with advanced technology, yet so simple to use. The intuitive user interface makes navigation easy for both non-technical and more advanced operators.

  • Up to 4x improvement in light element analysis resulting from the DELTA's custom 4W, 200µA (max) X-ray tube
  • Up to a 10x improvement in speed and throughput thanks to state-of-the-art electronics, a floating point processor, and redesigned analytical geometry
  • Time-saving, auto-calibration feature built into our exclusive docking station, eliminating the need to stop testing for standardizations

DELTA R&D HHXRF Optional Package

DELTA R&D XPLORER for Instant Metal Mapping

Lead (Pb) GPS-XRF Map resultsLead (Pb) GPS-XRF Map

Get the big picture with GPS-XRF. Get quick snapshots, instant visualization of data trends or analyze for comprehensive, defendable research. From in-field rapid decision making to discovering a new level of questioning, you get instant pinpoint location-specific sample chemistry or multidimensional metal content intensity plots. You can optimize sampling plans to reduce lab costs & reporting time for site assessments.

Pinpoint Geochemistry resultsPinpoint Geochemistry

Olympus Innov-X Knows Elemental Analysis

Our high-precision analyzers dramatically reduce testing times allowing hundreds more tests per day with significantly higher confidence in site surveys. Our portable XRF analyzers measure 25+ elements per test, from Mg (12) to U (92), PPM levels to 100%.

Three-Beam Settings

Three selectable beam settings are available for varying measurement objectives. A single-incident beam setting can be used for ultra-fast site screening with solid LOD performance across the periodic table. A single-incident beam setting can also be used for exceptional LOD performance for a group of elements such as heavy metals, transition metals & light elements, or to focus in on a particular element of interest such as Cr, Cd, Ni or Cu. And, for more involved analyses, multi-incident beam settings can be used to fully optimize measurements for exceptional LOD performance across the full elemental range or for user selectable elements. You have the ability to choose for your measurement objectives.

Optimized Three Beam Settings: LODs depend on matrix, sample preparation, presentation and measurement time.

Data Management

Data Analysis

  • Qualitative identification of elements
  • Semi-quantitative analysis of elements
  • Moisture content corrections
  • Compton Normalization: "Internal Standard" for quantitative analysis without site-specific calibrations
  • Fundamental Parameters: "Standardless" for samples with high and low concentrations of several elements
  • Empirical Calibrations: Refine factory calibrations with user generated, site-specific factors (slope, y-intercept), including ore-matrix-specific calibrations
  • Combination Algorithms: Fundamental Parameters with Empirical for Light Elements & complicated matrices
  • Re-evaluate stored data sets with added elements, new parameters, models or calibration curves

DELTA Handheld Screen View

Collect and View Data; Create Reports

  • Intuitive PC Software can be utilized to remotely control the DELTA analyzer in a benchtop configuration
  • Sort comprehensive analysis results, quickly create reports, view and export spectra

PC Software Data View

The DELTA Line

Enjoy a long term relationship with your DELTA Handheld XRF. Olympus Innov-X is the only handheld XRF manufacturer to offer a truly upgradeable platform. As your analysis needs change, the performance features of your existing DELTA can be incrementally increased as well.

DELTA Premium

Combining a large area, high performance Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) and a 4W optimized x-ray tube, the DELTA Premium with the tantalum (Ta) or gold (Au) tube configuration is the ideal solution for ultra quick, analytically demanding applications with superior detection limits for the elements phosphorus (P) through uranium (U). The DELTA-50 Premium is a 4W, 50kV x-ray tube (Ta or Au); this configuration offers optimum sensitivity for Cd, Ag, and Sb as well as Ba and the rare earth elements (REE). The DELTA Premium with the rhodium (Rh) tube configuration is ideal for superior detection limits for light elements magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al) and silicon (Si) as well as excellent detection limits for P through U. The DELTA Premium model is referred to as DP and the DELTA-50 Premium is referred to as DP-50.

DELTA Premium

DELTA Standard

Combining a Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) and a 4W optimized Ta or Au X-ray tube provides excellent speed and detection limits for P through U. The new standard in handheld XRF, the DELTA Standard model is referred to as DS.

 DELTA Standard

DELTA Classic

Combining a SiPIN detector with a 4W optimized Ta or Au X-ray tube, our DELTA Classic is a high tech, flexible analyzer for typical XRF analysis for measuring P through U. The DELTA Classic model is referred to as DC.

DELTA Classic

Product Package Options

The DELTA XPLORER Package is optionally available offering XRF/GPS/GIS for Instant Metal Mapping - The Most Cost Effective Tool in the Box for Large Sites

Portable XRF allows for the generation of large, inexpensive geochemical data sets very quickly. The XPLORER provides important data management and validation framework, helping ensure the quality and integrity of your sampling program, while still in the field. Our XRF/GPS/GIS integration, the first of its kind in the industry, addresses the needs of the total project.

  • Field Portable XRF data is transferred wirelessly and spatially registered in real time using industry standard Mobile GIS and State-of-the-Art Trimble GPS Hardware (ArcPAD or Discover Mobile)
  • The result is live geochemical mapping in the field enabling visualization, gridding, and contouring in GIS for rapid, informed decision making
  • Seamless integration into powerful geochemical analysis software such as ioGAS for first class data validation and QA/QC
  • Reduces human error related to XRF data transfer, GPS coordinate merging and GIS integration

For more information on the DELTA XPLORER Package Option, contact the Sales Department.

Product Accessory Options

All DELTA models come with the following Standard Accessories:

  • Waterproof carrying case
  • (2) Li-ion batteries
  • Users Manual & Quick Start Guide
  • Docking Station w/ integral charging station for additional battery
  • Mini USB Cable
  • Wrist Strap
  • 316 Calibration Check reference coin
  • (10) Spare windows
  • DELTA PC Software
  • Factory Training & Support
  • Two-year warranty parts & labor (excludes batteries)

Easy Access Holster

The following optional DELTA Accessories are also available.

Portable Work Station

Fully shielded, rugged test stand for benchtop or remote controlled testing.(NOTE: Advanced PC Software is Included)

Soil Foot & Stick

Attaches to handle of DELTA analyzer, balancing analyzer on ground for hands-free, extended in-situ testing.

The global pursuit of knowledge, understanding and adventure is at the heart of a Discovery Quest. Olympus encourages and supports projects, be they for archaeology, cultural heritage, forensic anthropology, geo-science, public health or to simply pursue ideas, dreams and answers. Not only is handheld XRF an incredible research tool, it is also an amazing instructional tool. Imagine your students seeing the periodic table come to life in their hands, getting immediate answers to questions, understanding the benefits and liabilities of various sampling techniques, realizing the nuances of analysis variables, and raising their eyebrows when they realize you actually know what you're talking about. Imagine the Possibilities.

Olympus Innov-X handheld XRF for field archaeometry--collage

Research and development software screen

DELTA handheld XRF analyzers are used extensively by the commercial sector for fast and accurate answers that give an immediate return on investment, maintain quality of incoming and outgoing materials, and help meet regulatory health and well-being requirements. Handheld XRF is also used in the interest of expanding the human knowledge base and satisfying curiosity. On occasion, these discoveries even turn into viable commercial applications.The only real limit to the use of handheld XRF in Research & Discovery is the imagination. Handheld XRF is uniquely positioned to explore the world and beyond. If fast and simple in-situ elemental analysis will enhance your research or teaching experience, contact us to find out how you can get a handheld XRF of your own.

Archaeometry

Olympus Innov-X handheld XRF for field archaeometry. The application of physics and chemistry to investigate archaeological and historical objects benefits tremendously from handheld XRF. Most governments will not allow investigators to remove materials from their original setting; and, sometimes their removal or even disturbance can destroy the value of the object. In-situ, non-destructive handheld XRF analysis provides valuable information for the assessment of a site - where to dig next, the relationships among loci, the homogeneity of materials, the authenticity of a cave or fresco painting and more. Combining GPS with handheld XRF in the field for instant metal mapping takes archaeological field research to an entirely new level.



Cultural Heritage

Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage objects pose challenges on many fronts. Whether the need is 

Traditional Native American headwareto identify the authenticity of an object or to determine the correct restoration materials, handheld XRF is an ideal tool to aid the analyst without damaging the object. Handheld XRF is used to help reproduce glaze colors on historical buildings with modern non-toxic material. It is used to help identify and restore inks on ancient manuscripts. Handheld XRF is also used to identify and/or repair alloys of jewelry, swords, sculpture, and even historical submarines. It is also used to identify arsenic or lead residue left by older, toxic preservatives on historical objects typically of natural material origin, such as feathers or skins. Many museums and cultural heritage institutes use handheld XRF on a regular basis.

Geo-Science

Olympus Innov-X analyzer measuring for field archaeology.The field of geo-science includes discovery, safe use, and sustainablity of valuable land resources. This includes the safety of food sources with the growing demand for peri-urban farming and precision agriculture. The DELTA handheld XRF allows for rapid determination of toxic metals introduced to the soil and water as herbicides or pesticides, such as As and Pb, as well as correct placement of nutrients and fertilizers, such as Ca, Mg, P & K. It also includes the use of handheld XRF by geologists to determine the history of soil layers indicating events that have occurred throughout geological time. The DELTA XPLORER is ideal for this research as it allows for high intensity soil analysis in the field with results obtained and spatially modeled on-site.

Grave digging elicits numerous connotations, usually horror film in nature. But, forensic anthropologists actually study graves and their inhabitants to learn the origin of those buried, how they perished, and sometimes if the bodies were moved. Additionally, handheld XRF is utilized by forensic odontologists to assist in victim identification by analyzing dental restorative resin materials. Acting like a fingerprint, even if the body has been burned, this method has helped to identify victims of extreme incineration cases.

Public Health

Individuals tending to cropsGlobal advocacy groups work to uncover situations and materials that pose dangers to public health and well being and to determine a course of corrective action. For instance, high levels of lead (Pb), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd) and other toxic metals can be found in the domicile and play areas of peoples in developing countries where the knowledge of their danger are not yet known or where regulations are simply not yet feasible. Handheld XRF analyzers are used to quickly ascertain the presence and quantity of these contaminants. This allows world health advocacy groups to determine a course of corrective action to help developing countries prosper with local resources and with safe working practices.

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