RAPID II large area curved imaging plate detector

Finally a small molecule system that is experimentally versatile and extremely easy and inexpensive to maintain.

The large imaging plate format of the RAPID II provides outstanding versatility that cannot be matched by CCD-based detectors.

Compare the RAPID II aperture to the size of a typical CCD

What types of crystallographic experiments benefit from the use of an imaging plate (IP) detector?

• Diverse ones!
• The ones you need now
• The ones you may need in the future
• The ones your colleagues need
• The ones you perform every day
• The ones you have never performed before
• The ones you simply cannot do well with CCD or multiwire detectors

The RAPID II is quite simply the world's most versatile diffraction platform

• Small molecule structure determination using any wavelength (Cu, Mo, Ag,
  etc.) with no compromise
• High-resolution charge density measurements
• Measurements of weakly diffracting disordered materials
• Powder diffraction
• Micro-diffraction
• Diffuse scattering

What makes the RAPID II so versatile?

• The RAPID II takes data collection to the EXTREME
• EXTREMELY large aperture size
• EXTREMELY low noise

Features

• Compatibility with Rigaku sealed tube and rotating anode sources
• Partial-χ or fixed-χ goniometer options
• Source-to-sample distance: 127.4 mm
• Aperture: 466 mm x 256 mm
• Pixel size: 100 μm x 100 μm
• Read time: 51.2 seconds
• Erase time: 20 seconds
• Over 100 RAPID systems installed since 1998
• Supported by CrystalClear™ and HKL-2000®