Think You Can’t Afford a Single-Crystal Diffractometer? Meet the XtaLAB mini II

Is your research stuck due to restricted budgets?

You’re not alone. Due to the perceived high cost of a single crystal diffractometer, many crystallographers and chemists have put off purchasing one,  relying on third-party labs for structure analysis.

Don’t give up. The Rigaku XtaLAB mini II is a compact, simple and affordable benchtop X-ray diffractometer designed for labs with limited budgets. It may be just the solution you’ve been looking for.

Key benefits:

• Smallest footprint on the market: It fits on a lab bench
• Low maintenance: It has only a few moving parts
• Affordable: Thanks to a sealed tube Mo X-ray source and fixed-geometry design
• Reliable data: Provides data that meets IUCr standards for most crystals
• Proven: Hundreds of structures solved on the XtaLAB mini II appear in peer-reviewed journals

Technology highlights:

• Fine-focus Mo sealed tube
• Fixed 2-axis goniometer (kappa = 54°)
• Fixed detector with the same photon-counting technology used at synchrotron beamlines
• ~45 mm detector distance with 20° 2θ for good resolution and completeness

In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the hardware and software of the XtaLAB mini II. You might think a benchtop diffractometer might not be up to the task. You can decide for yourself after seeing real-world data and published examples that demonstrate its capabilities.