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Explore insights, applications, and stories from the field using handheld XRF, LIBS, VisNIR, and portable benchtop analyzers across scrap recycling, mining, geochemistry, forensics, and more.
What Makes an Analyzer Truly Field Ready?
What makes an analyzer truly field ready? Explore the ruggedness, reliability, ease of use, and connectivity needed for demanding field applications.
Why Analyzer Data Shouldn't Live on a USB Stick
Analyzer data is too valuable to be trapped on USB drives and spreadsheets. Learn how connected workflows with SciAps Cloud+ automate data backup, improve visibility, simplify reporting, and turn analytical results into actionable business intelligence.
The Hidden Cost of Waiting
How much is waiting for lab results really costing your operation? Delayed laboratory analysis can lead to downtime, slower production, missed opportunities, and reduced profitability. In this article, we explore the hidden costs of waiting for analytical results and how portable technologies like SciAps XRF, LIBS, and reveNIR analyzers, combined with Cloud+ real-time data management, help organizations make faster decisions, streamline workflows, reduce laboratory dependence, and gain greater visibility into their operations.
Analyzing the USGS 2025 Draft List of Critical Minerals with SciAps PowerHouse X and Z-903
The USGS 2025 Draft Critical Minerals List underscores the growing importance of accurate, field-ready analysis. With SciAps PowerHouse X, Z-903 LIBS, and reveNIR, geologists and industry leaders can rapidly identify critical elements and minerals—helping secure resilient supply chains for the future.
Uncovering the Truth Beneath a Castle: How SciAps XRF Is Rewriting Irish History
What started as a crumbling castle on an Irish island turned into a groundbreaking archaeological discovery—thanks to the SciAps X-550. Dr. Tom Finan of Saint Louis University used the handheld analyzer to uncover hidden histories in mortar, metal, and pottery. From authenticating medieval structures to identifying ancient trades, the XRF helped reveal the truth behind centuries-old legends—and gave students hands-on experience that changed their careers.
SciAps Expands Portfolio with Legendary ASD Spectroradiometers
SciAps, a leader in portable analytical instruments, has taken over the renowned FieldSpec, TerraSpec, and LabSpec product lines from ASD. This acquisition expands SciAps' commitment to delivering cutting-edge spectral solutions across mining, remote sensing, and laboratory applications. Now integrated under the SciAps brand, these instruments—alongside the new reveNIR analyzer—offer enhanced mineral identification, geologic exploration, and field-portable analysis capabilities.
Simplify Analyzer Control with Fleet Management
Managing your analyzers just got easier with Fleet Management, a cloud-based solution that puts control at your fingertips. Monitor device performance, troubleshoot issues, and push updates in real-time—all from anywhere. Stay ahead of operations with seamless remote access to your entire fleet.
Innovating for Our Changing World
In the technology world, if you’re not innovating, you’re falling behind. While other scientific technology companies continue to sell the same instruments they developed 10-20 years ago, SciAps invests in innovation with a strong Research and Development team.
PowerHouse X: The Groundbreaking Portable Benchtop XRF
SciAps PowerHouse X, with an 80kV miniature X-ray tube, can efficiently excite the K shell emission lines for both light and heavy REEs. By analyzing these high energy K-lines, the complicated spectral overlaps with common metals are avoided completely, yielding unprecedented limits of detection and better performance than any other portable XRF.
The next level for Geochemistry: The X-550 Geochem
The X-550 Geochem features an integrated fan that powers on when required to deliver high duty cycle operations in the hottest of climates. The X-550 Geochem offers three selectable, automated X-ray source settings.
New R&D partnership between Portable PPB and SciAps
SciAps is proud to announce a new R&D partnership with Portable PPB on the new capabilities of the leading handheld XRF analyzer the X-555 with the addition of Ag and Cu to the detectORE™ suite.
Lithium-ion Battery Recycling with Field-Portable Handheld LIBS
Brendan Connors presented his work with Kristopher Krueger on "Lithium-ion Battery Recycling with Field-Portable Handheld LIBS" in a poster at SciX 2023.
HH XRF X-200 analyzer used by Earth Sciences Foundation to study dinosaur bones
SciAps X-200 XRF is being used, both in the field and in multiple repositories, to analyze dinosaur bones. Thomas Hebert from Earth Sciences Foundation, Inc. is excited about the opportunity to use the SciAps XRF in his research and projects associated with the foundation.
Looking for lithium in all the wrong places?
Get rapid, in-field analysis with SciAps Z-9 Liquidator +Z-903 LIBS system SciAps is proud to announce the first portable LIBS-powered lithium brines analyzer, the Z-9 Liquidator. When combined with the Z-903 LIBS handheld analyzer, the Z-9 Liquidator test station provides fast and easy analysis of brines in the field, plant, or lab.
SciAps & detectORE The Future of In-field Gold Analysis
SciAps XRF pairs with Portable PPB After several years of working with Portable PPB, SciAps, Inc. is now pleased to offer a fully integrated solution for our clients. SciAps X-505 has been optimized to meet Portable PPB's stringent requirements, and now has their endorsement to use their unique detectORE™ technique.
AGU
Find out about SciAps amazing world of applications available to handheld LIBS and XRF. Support for electric vehicles and strategic metals includes the world’s only 55 kV analyzer optimized for REEs and the world’s only handheld for lithium analysis in soils, ores, and brines. Discover unique XRF features for gold pathfinders and LIBS as a powerful tool for geoscience. Work with confidence in demanding landscapes with our durable analyzers. See for yourself at AGU.