LIBS · High-Speed Elemental Imaging

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Velocity™ — High-Speed Elemental Imaging Platform

Rapid chemical imaging for advanced manufacturing, materials development, and industrial quality control.

Applied Spectra Velocity high-speed elemental imaging instrument

Overview

Chemical imaging built for speed and scale

Velocity™ is Applied Spectra’s high-speed elemental imaging platform that combines laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) with advanced motion control to rapidly characterize the chemical composition of large, heterogeneous materials.

Designed for applications requiring fast, large-area elemental mapping, Velocity™ delivers high-throughput chemical images that help engineers visualize composition, identify defects, monitor process variation, and accelerate materials development.

From battery manufacturing and failure analysis to critical minerals and advanced materials research, Velocity™ transforms elemental data into actionable process intelligence.

Key Capabilities

What Velocity delivers

A high-throughput imaging platform engineered to move from acquisition to insight without slowing down.

  • Large-area elemental imaging

    Characterize large, heterogeneous materials without stitching together dozens of small fields of view.

  • Rapid 2D and 3D chemical mapping

    Resolve surface composition and depth structure to reveal how elements are distributed through a sample.

  • High-throughput analysis

    Sustain the acquisition rates that industrial workflows and production lines demand.

  • Research and production ready

    One platform that scales from exploratory materials development to routine quality control.

  • Integrated acquisition-to-visualization

    A connected workflow powered by Axiom™ 3.0 and ClarityNeXt™, from raw signal to actionable chemical image.

Applications

From the lab to the production floor

Velocity supports both research and production environments, turning elemental data into process intelligence across demanding workflows.

  • Battery manufacturing
  • Failure analysis
  • Critical minerals
  • Advanced materials research