Benchmark Baseplate Accessories
The majority of Specac’s accessories utilise our Benchmark Baseplate mounting apparatus.
The following accessories are designed to use the Benchmark Baseplate:
- Quest ATR
- Golden Gate ATR
- Gateway ATR
- Pearl liquid transmission accessory
- Atmos long pathlength gas cells(*)
- Cyclone long pathlength gas cells(*)
- Microfocus beam condenser
- MiniDiff Plus Diffuse reflectance accessory (Discontinued)
- Variable Temperature cell holder
The following spectrometer systems are compatible with Benchmark Baseplate accessories.
| OEM | Models |
| Agilent | Cary 660, Cary 670, Cary 680 (Not compatible with Cary 630) |
| BioRad | Excalibur, Scimitar, FTS series |
| Bruker | Invenio, Vertex, Tensor II, Tensor 27, Equinox, Vector, IFS series (Not compatible with Bruker Alpha) |
| Great | Great 20 |
| Jasco | All models |
| Lumex | FT-08 |
| Mattson | All models |
| PerkinElmer | Spectrum 3, Frontier, Spectrum 2, Spectrum 1, Spectrum 100, Spectrum 400, Spectrum 4000, Spectrum 65, Spectrum 2000, Spectrum GX |
| PG Instruments | FTIR 7800 |
| Shimadzu | All models |
| Tianjin Gangdong | 850 |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific (Nicolet) | Summit, iS50, iS20, iS10, iS5, Nexus, 6700, 8700, Magna, Avatar, Protégé |
| Varian | Cary 660, Cary 670, Cary 680, Excalibur, Scimitar, FTS series |
Some of our accessories use a bespoke baseplate apparatus. These are generally available for the same spectrometer models as above, but Specac can advise on a case-by-case basis.
- High Temperature, High Pressure (HTHP) cell
- Selector Diffuse Reflectance accessory (Discontinued)
- Selector Environmental Chamber accessory (Discontinued)
- Monolayer/Grazing Angle accessory (**) (Discontinued)
Slide-mounted accessories
Other accessories in our portfolio are mounted via a 3” x 2” slide mounting plate which fits into the holder supplied with your spectrometer.
Note that space within the sample compartment of some spectrometer systems may restrict the full use of some accessories. If you provide dimensions of your sample compartment to us, we can verify whether the product you wish to use will fit.
Our slide mounted accessories are:
- Omni Cell demountable liquid cells
- 3-port liquid flow cells
- Storm 10 cm gas cells
- Magnetic film holder
- Specacards
- Micro Compression cell
- Electrical heating jacket
- Water heating jacket
- Oil-in-water analysis kit
- 25 Reflection ATR
- Ambient cell holder for heatable liquid cells & flow cells
- Variable Temperature cell holder
If you have any questions about this, please contact us.
(*) Due to the dimensions of the sample compartment, some Atmos and Cyclone models are not compatible with the PerkinElmer Spectrum 2
(**) Due to the dimensions of various sample compartments, the full range of grazing angles of incidence may not be possible. Please see separate product manual.






