Data Acquisition, Processing And Interpretation In The Litesizer Series

Anton Paar’s Litesizer™ series instruments operate several measurement methods based on light scattering. In simple terms, light scattering can be defined as the deflection of a light beam from its path by irregularities in a medium - for instance, a particle in suspension. The instrument records the deflected light, which contains a large amount of information on the particles that have scattered it.

This white paper focuses on the means necessary to record and translate this detected light into the different physical properties of the particles. Different aspects of the experimental setup, the electronic acquisition as well as of the analysis algorithms used by the Litesizer™ software Kalliope™ will be discussed.