There are many occasions where analyzing unknown particles can be important. Examples include illicit drug analysis, product homogeneity in tablets, electronics manufacturing, inclusions in biomedical products, and maybe most importantly microplastics. Further, the identification of unknown particles can be extremely important in reverse engineering products and identifying the cause of failure in the manufacturing process.

One of the challenges to analyzing particles is that the size of the particles can be very small and potentially embedded in a matrix. Particle defects can adversely affect product quality, appearance, and performance. When assessing product quality, it is of interest to not only identify particles but to also count and size the particles of interest.There are two steps to particle identification: First is the targeting of particles of interest and the second is to perform the identification, count, and size distribution.

There are also two methods for performing the acquisition of the data, point-by-point, or full field detection using an area detector. Each of these techniques will be discussed with the advantages of each presented for both IR and Raman microanalysis. In this comparative study relevant examples from the pharmaceutical and other related products will be presented.

In this webinar you’ll learn:

• Identification of unknown particles in a wide variety of manufacturing processes
• Reverse engineering and failure analysis in the manufacturing process
• Two-step process to particle identification

• Pharmaceuticals
• Forensics
• Microplastics
• Biomedical
• Electronics