EzTime Acquisition Modules

• One package for system control, data collection and analysis
• Multithreaded operation - analyze one dataset while acquiring the next
• Autofit feature – data automatically fitted with 1, 2 and 3 exponential models at end of acquisition
• Scripting – simple scripting commands to control data acquisition process and autofit
• Optimized for use with touch screen computers / monitors
• Tabulate function enables data and analysis to be saved in spreadsheetform (EzTime features a built-in spreadsheet editor and exported spreadsheets will open in MS® Excel®). Spreadsheets can be manipulated using the scripting feature to build custom reports
• Different time ranges can be displayed on the same graph
• Display of both time-resolved and spectral data on the same chart
• Autoset function (remembers hardware settings for decay and IRF measurements)
• Hardware settings recorded with IRFs and decays
• Automated scripts included for common measurements (TRES, anisotropy, turret scan)
• Script editor feature
• Support for photon streaming (aka time tag) modes (requires appropriate hardware)
• Automated instrument recognition and control

EzTime Data Analysis Modules

The fitting modules include the following models:

• 1 to 5 exponentials
• Exciplex
• Förster quenching 2D
• Förster quenching 3D
• Micellar quenching
• Stretched exponential
• Yokota-Tanimoto quenching
• Non-extensive decay (NED) distribution (up to five gamma distributions)
• Maximum entropy method (MEM)
• Global analysis for 1 to 5 exponentials
• Anisotropy analysis
• Batch analysis mode
• Time-resolved emission spectra (TRES)
• Time slicing TRES data
• Decay associated spectra

Real time fitting features:

• Automated fitting of 1, 2 & 3 exponentials
• Ability to simply export data and results
• Automated selection of fit range
• Graphical and numeric representation

Have an EzTime of Your Experiments With F-link Communication Bus

With EzTime software and the F-link communication bus, it is easy for even the newest user to identify exactly what components are on the DeltaFlex at any time. F-link is an internal bus that is used in the DeltaFlex to link the various components together. For example, the sample compartment lid is interlocked via F-link to protect the detector and optionally switch off the laser. Other accessories, such as motorized polarizers and time-domain monochromators, also come with F-link. Since each F-link “node” is intelligent, whenever an F-link component is added to the system, it is auto-detected, and the configuration automatically updates without relying on troublesome registry settings.

Students, or multiple users at a core facility, will never be surprised with no sample signal due to the wrong LED or laser fiode is being used because the F-link communication allows EzTime to be “aware” of what the instrument set up and condition is. New F-link compatible components can be “sensed” by the software, enabling hardware additions to be simply added.