Tiger Optics proudly announces a significant advance in methane measurement for UHP inert, toxic, and corrosive gases. A chronic problem, residual organic and inorganic contaminants are extremely difficult to eradicate. They negatively impact wafer yields and take a toll on the manufacture of fiber optics and photonics. Yet, up until now, detection of these molecules has been costly, complicated, time consuming, and often inconclusive.

Enter the MTO, the world's first commercially available gas analyzer incorporating Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS). Based on this breakthrough technology, the MTO-1000/1001 offers state-of-the-art methane detection in milliseconds, with absolute accuracy. Designed by experienced instrument engineers familiar with your applications, the MTO combines high technology with plug-and-play operation, very modest maintenance, freedom from calibration, and built-in capacity to measure up to four sample gases.

With its corrosion-resistant flow system, robust design, flexible software, and advanced sensing technology, the MTO is the most versatile methane analyzer available. A complete lab-in-a-box, it saves time, money, and space. All told, the MTO-1000 can help you avoid:

Purifier Breakthroughs: Methane is notoriously difficult and expensive to eliminate. The speed and sensitivity of the MTO-1000 indicates purifier saturation early on, giving you time to react.

Photomask Damage: Fugitive hydrocarbons can degrade photolithographic lenses. A reliable indicator of methane in the purge gas, the MTO helps protect valuable lens assemblies and preserve wafer yields.

Cross-Contamination: Leaks and improperly piped lines can lead to cross-contamination in your gas delivery system. The MTO alerts you to faults before they generate failures.

Equipment Overload: QA/QC folks, systems integrators, and fab operators and contractors alike chaff at the need for big, expensive, complex equipment to track hydrocarbons. With the MTO-1000, the major indicator, methane, is a cinch to detect.

Iffy Spec Gases: Flawed specs result when gas suppliers use inadequate calibration equipment. The MTO-1000 gives you and your suppliers the technology to guarantee spec confidence.