sCMOS cameras for physical sciences

The Marana, Zyla and Neo sCMOS cameras offer high speed, high sensitivity, and high resolution imaging performance – all at once. They can be integrated easily into research applications.

In a vacuum cooled platform, loaded with FPGA intelligence, the Marana and Neo sCMOS cameras are designed to drive highest possible sensitivity from this exciting and innovative technology development. Unlike any CMOS or CCD technology to come before it, Marana and Neo simultaneously deliver highest specifications in sensitivity, resolution, speed, dynamic range and field-of-view: true scientific imaging without compromise.

The Marana cameras employ back-illuminated sCMOS sensors with the highest available quantum efficiency of 95 %; an UV-optimized sensor delivers best sensitivity from 250 nm to 400 nm. The Marana 4.2 megapixel sensors (32 mm diagonal) offer the largest field of view of any sCMOS camera on the market.

The Zyla is ideally suited to many experiments that push the boundaries of speed and sensitivity, offering sustained performance of up to 101 frames per second with CameraLink interface - even faster with sub-images - and read noise down to 0.9 electrons. Zyla’s unique dark noise suppression technology ensures the low noise advantage is maintained over a wide range of exposure conditions. The 'plug and play' interface option offers industry leading USB 3.0 frame rate performance of up to 53 frames/s at 4.2 megapixel resolution. The unprecedented value and flexibility of the Zyla means it is also re-defining the concept of a 'workhorse' camera, rapidly displacing interline CCD cameras.

Choice of Rolling and Global (snapshot) exposure mechanisms ensure maximum application flexibility for the Zyla and Neo sCMOS cameras with the 5.5 megapixel sensor; the latter providing a 'freeze frame' capture capability that emulates that of an interline transfer CCD camera.

	Marana-4.2	Neo-5.5	Zyla-5.5	Zyla-4.2
Resolution	2048 x 2048 x 11 µm	2560 x 2160 x 6.5 µm	2560 x 2160 x 6.5 µm	2048 x 2048 x 6.5 µm
Quantum Efficiency	95%	60%	60%	82%
Read Noise	1.6 e-	1.0 e-	0.9 e-	0.9 e-
Sensor Temperature	-45 °C	-40 °C	-10 °C/0 °C	-10 °C/0 °C
Dark Current	0.2 e-/pixel/s	0.007 e-/pixel/s	0.1 or 0.019 e-/pixel/s	0.1 or 0.019 e-/pixel/s
Cooling	air and water	air and water	air or water	air or water
Dynamic Range	53,000 : 1	30,000 : 1	33,000 : 1	33,000 : 1
Linearity	>99.7 %	>99 %	>99.8 %	>99.8 %
PRNU (Photo Resonance Non-Uniformity)	<0.5 %	<0.01 %	<0.01 %	<0.01 %
Shutter	Rolling	Rolling and Global	Rolling and Global	Rolling
Interface	USB 3.0	3-tap CameraLink	USB 3.0 or 10-tap CameraLink	USB 3.0 or 10-tap CameraLink
Full Frame Rate at Full Resolution	48	30 (100)	40 or 100	53 or 101

 

Videos about key specifications and typical applications:

• Marana for physical sciences
• Seven reasons to choose Marana
• Neo for physical sciences
• Zyla-4.2 and Zyla-5.5 for physical sciences

Title	Author(s)	Institute	Year	Spectrograph/ Detector
Microsopy
Microscopy of LEDs and phosphors in practical exercises for students	S. Bock, D. Berben	Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Hagen, Germany	2017	Neo-5.5-CL3
Fluorescence microscopy of semiconductor nanowire arrays	S. Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez1, D. van Dam2, J. Gomez Rivas1,2	1Surface Photonics, AMOLF, c/o Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands	2014	Neo DC152 QC-FI1
Detection of electrochemically generated peroxide and superoxide by fluorescence microscopy	C. Dosche, S. Dongmo	Institute of Chemistry, University of Oldenburg, Germany	2013	Neo DC152 QC-FI1
Imaging with scintillation screens
Field ion microscopy of electron emitters	P. Groß, A. Schröder, C. Lienau, S. Schäfer	Institute for Physics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany	2019	Neo-5.5-CL3
Phase transitions in 1T-TaS2 mapped by ultrafast LEED	S. Vogelgesang, G. Storeck, S. Schäfer, C. Ropers	IV. Physical Institute, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany	2017	Zyla-5.5-CL10
Application of the sCMOS camera Andor Neo for X-ray and neutron imaging	N. Kardjilov1, S. Williams1,2, F. Wieder1, A. Hilger1, I. Manke1	1Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA	2014	Neo DC152-QF-FI3
Polarization dependent photoelectron emission with high lateral resolution	T. Wagner	Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Linz, Austria	2012	Neo DC152-QC-FI1
Plasma- and fusion research
Evaluation of the Zyla sCMOS imaging camera for IMSE diagnostic	O. P. Ford, C. Biedermann	Wendelstein 7-X, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany	2014	Zyla-5.5-CL10
Measuring ion temperatures and helium densities in the hot core of a nuclear fusion reactor using sCMOS and EMCCD cameras	R. J. E. Jaspers	Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands	2014	Neo DC152 QC-FI1 iXon DU888 DC-EX
Real-time characterization of plasma evolution by diffraction imaging	N. K. Rothe, A. V. Svanidze, C. Schuster, M. Lütgens, S. Lochbrunner	Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany	2013	Neo DC152 QC-FI1
Astronomy
High-speed imaging and its applications: Beating down the scintillation noise	P. Ioannidis, J.H.M.M. Schmitt	Hamburg Observatory, Physics Department, University of Hamburg, Germany	2017	Zyla-4.2-CL10 Neo-5.5-CL3
Active optical debris detection: Highly accurate position determination of space debris orbits	W. Riede, D. Hampf, P. Wagner, L. Humbert, F. Sproll, A. Giesen,	Institute of Technical Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Stuttgart, Germany	2016	Zyla-5.5-CL10
Quantum physics
Real- and momentum-space imaging of plasmonic waveguide arrays	F. Bleckmann, S. Linden	Physikalisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany	2016	Zyla-5.5-USB3
Particle image velocimetry (PIV) and particle tracking velocimetry (PTV)
Redesign of a 3D PTV system with ANDOR’s Neo sCMOS	P. Steinhoff, M. Schmidt, D. Müller	E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate (EBC), RWTH Aachen University, Germany	2013	Neo DC152 QFR-FI2
Spectroscopy
Photoluminescence spectroscopy of metal nanoantennas coupled to the atomically thin semiconductor WS2	J. Kern, R. Bratschitsch	Institute of Physics and Center for Nanotechnology, University of Münster, Germany	2015	Neo-5.5-CL3 Shamrock SR-303i-B-SIL
Using a surface-forces-apparatus to measure force-distance profiles across confined ionic liquids	T. Utzig, H.-W. Cheng, M. Valtiner	Department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany	2014	Zyla-5.5-CL3 Shamrock SR-500i-B2-SIL

Remarks:
¹New part number of DC152 QC-FI: Neo-5.5-CL3
²Neo DC152 QFR-FI replaced by Neo-5.5-CL3-F
³New part number of DC152 QF-Fi: Neo-5.5-CL3-F

• Software for Andor cameras and spectrographs
• Scientific CMOS
• Cameras for astronomy
• Camera windows
• UltraVac permanent vacuum head and performance longevitiy
• Binning and frame rates
• PIV mode for Neo and Zyla
• Liquid cooling system EXT-440

Webinar: Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV)