Nicolet™ iS50 FTIR

Nicolet iS50 FTIR spectrometer

Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)

Nicolet™ iS50 Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, fitted with Smart-iTR™ diamond Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) attachment for ATR measurements; instrument can also be configured for transmission mode measurements, with a variety of gas, liquid, and solid sample cells available. Ge-on-KBr beamsplitter.  The iS50 has two detectors: a liquid nitrogen-cooled MCT-A detector; spectral range 600-11,7000 wavenumbers, and a DLaTGS detector with spectral range 350-7,800 wavenumbers. The MCT-A detector is more sensitive, and can be used to detect weak signals from dilute samples.

Hourly rate: UC Users: $30  • non-UC Users: $43.50

Location: Pacific Hall room 4017 • UC San Diego Main Campus • 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358 USA

Contact: Ricardo De Luna, Facility Manager
email the Facility Manager to reserve this instrument or a training activity


The UC San Diego MRSEC-MCF is a user and service facility associated with the NSF-funded UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, dedicated to materials characterization, assays, and sample processing.

We ask that any publications or presentations acknowledge use of these MRSEC-supported facilities with the following statement:

“The authors acknowledge the use of facilities and instrumentation supported by NSF through the UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (UCSD MRSEC), grant # DMR-2011924”