History - The Bruker Advantage

Bruker Elemental, Handheld XRF, can trace its history back to the early 1980s and the US National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. It was there that a team of scientists from United Nuclear Inc and the US Department of Energy pioneered the early breakthroughs in portable XRF. That led to the formation of Scitec, the company that would later become Bruker Elemental.

A lot has changed since those early days. A series of innovations has made handheld XRF technology an indispensable tool in fields as diverse as PMI (Positive Material Identification), art conservation, scrap sorting, petrochemical industries and the NASA space exploration program. S1 TURBO^SD is the latest in a long line of innovations, representing the first portable XRF analyzer to incorporate Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) technology. During this development Bruker Elemental has produced thousands of handheld XRF instruments many of which were sold through a major OEM relationship.