Cary 14 Spectrophotometer

The Cary Model 14 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer was a double beam recording spectrophotometer designed to operate over the wide spectral range of ultraviolet, visible and near infrared wavelengths (UV/Vis/NIR). This included wavelengths ranging from 185 nanometers to 870 nanometers.[1] (The Cary Model 14B, almost identical in exterior appearance, measured wavelengths from .5 to 6.0 microns.)[2]

Cary Model 14B Recording Spectrophotometer (front, details almost identical to Model 14)
Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer (back, open)

The Cary 14 spectrophotometer was first produced in 1954 by the Applied Physics Corporation, which later was named the Cary Instruments Corporation after co-founder Howard Cary.[1] The instrument was a successor to the Cary 11, which was the first commercially available recording UV/Vis spectrophotometer.[3] It was produced until 1980, and refurbished models can still be obtained.

Design and use

The double beam design of the Cary 14 provided rapid, simplified analysis by simultaneously measuring the transmittance of both the sample and the reference over the entire spectral range.[3][4] The optics of the Cary 14 were a key feature.[5] The monochromator in particular was described and patented.[6] The Cary 14 was one of the first instruments to incorporate high-quality gratings into its monochromators.[7]

To take readings in the ultraviolet or visible range, a hydrogen or tungsten lamp was used, focusing light into the entrance slit. The light passed through the first monochromator, which used a 30° Littrow prism, through another slit, and then into the second monochromator, which used an echellete grating with 6000 grooves/cm. The beam then reflected from a semicircular mirror, alternately into compartments for the sample and the reference. The beams from the sample and reference alternately registered on the photomultiplier detector.[7]

To take readings in the near infrared, a tungsten ribbon-filament lamp was used instead of the photomultiplier tube. An additional mirror was used to direct the light beam onto a lead sulfide photoconductive cell and reverse the light's path through the monochromators.[7]

The instrument had a built-in chart recorder for displaying the analog signal on paper.[1] By using a double-pen mechanism, an effective chart width of 20 inches could be obtained.[7] The hydrogen discharge lamp was water cooled.[8] Samples and reference solvent were held in the sample chamber by a variety of means, most typically using 1 centimeter pathlength cuvettes made of glass or quartz.[9]

By combining the Littrow prism and the echellete grating, the Cary design minimized noise and interference while obtaining high resolution measurements.[10] [11] When used in double-beam mode, the instrument was almost entirely free from Wood’s anomalies and other artifacts.[12] A series of publications in the scholarly literature validated the optical quality of the Cary 14,[13][14] including benchmarking with the Beckman DU Spectrophotometer, which was another leading spectrophotometer of the time.[15]

The instrument was widely used for studies of chemical bonding, quantitative analysis, and rates of chemical reaction. The use of the instrument generally necessitated that substances being studied are in the solution state.[16]

Patent USRE26053 E Cary 14 Spectrophotometer
  • Schematic diagram of the Monochromator
  • Plan View of the Monochromator

Production

The Cary 14 was produced until 1980. Its selling price in 1960 was approximately US $20,000.[1] Cary Instruments replaced production of the Cary 14 with the Cary 17 beginning in 1970.[17] Cary recording spectrophotometers, including the Cary 14, were contemporary to the single beam, non-scanning Spectronic 20 spectrophotometer. These instruments were complementary and were used in academic and analytical settings through the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.[18]

Although the Cary 14 is out of production, refurbished versions of it that retain the original optics but with modernized, digital electronics are commercially available as of 2017.[19] Versions of modernized Cary 14 spectrophotometers extend the wavelength range to 2500 nanometers in the near infrared spectrum.[20]

References
  1. "Recording spectrophotometer made in the USA in 1960". Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Australia. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  2. Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer (Bulletin 114-A). Monrovia, California: Cary Instruments / Applied Physics Corporation. 1960. p. back cover.
  3. Bule, John. "Evolution of UV-Vis Spectrophotometers". labmanager.com. Lab Manager Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  4. Chasteen, Thomas G. "The Double Beam Spectrophotometer (UV-Vis)". shsu.edu. Sam Houston State University. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  5. Clarke, F. J. J. (June 5, 1972). "High Accuracy Spectrophotometry at the National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, Middlesex, UK.)" (PDF). Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards - A. Physics and Chemistry. 10A (5). It is particularly note-worthy among commercial instrumentation for the size, freedom from stray light, wavelength calibration reproducibility and wide range of scan speeds of its prism-grating double-monochromator.
  6. Cary, Henry H. (5 July 1966). Double folded-z-configuration monochromator. U.S. Patent RE26053E. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Filed: 11 February 1959.
  7. Bauman, R. P. (1962). Absorption Spectroscopy. New York: Wiley. pp. 129–131. Two significant trends... extension of the frequency range... incorporation of the high-quality gratings now available into monochromators... The Cary 14 ... was among the first to incorporate these features.
  8. Sommer, L. (1989). Analytical absorption spectrophotometry in the visible and ultraviolet : the principles. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 67–68. ISBN 9780444988829. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  9. "Olis 14 Sample Compartment with Cuvette Holders". olisweb.com. Olis, Inc. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  10. Hind, Andrew R. (December 2002). "To improvements in spectrophotometry. . " (PDF). American Laboratory. 34: 32–35. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  11. Stewart, James E.; Gallaway, William S. (1 July 1962). "Diffraction Anomalies in Grating Spectrophotometers". Applied Optics. 1 (4): 421. Bibcode:1962ApOpt...1..421S. doi:10.1364/AO.1.000421.
  12. Jankow, R. (November 1, 1971). "Artifacts observed in single-beam source output curves of Cary 14s and 17s and other grating monochromator instruments" (PDF). Cary Instruments Technical Memo. Cary Instruments.
  13. Vandenbelt, J.M. (January 1960). "Collaborative Readings with the Cary-14 Spectrophotometer". Journal of the Optical Society of America. 50 (1): 24–27. Bibcode:1960JOSA...50...24V. doi:10.1364/josa.50.000024.
  14. Vandenbelt, J.M.; Spurlock, Carola H. (November 1955). "Collaborative Study of the Performance of Cary Spectrophotometers". Journal of the Optical Society of America. 45 (11): 967–970. Bibcode:1955JOSA...45..967V. doi:10.1364/josa.45.000967.
  15. Brode, Wallace R.; Gould, John H.; Whitney, James E.; Wyman, George M. (October 1953). "A Comparative Survey of Spectrophotometers in the 210-760 mμ Region". Journal of the Optical Society of America. 43 (10): 862–865. Bibcode:1953JOSA...43..862B. doi:10.1364/josa.43.000862.
  16. "Basic UV-Vis Theory, Concepts and Applications". Thermo Spectronic Co.
  17. "Varian Cary 50 Series Spectrophotometer" (PDF). nist.gov. Varian, Co. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  18. Jensen, William B. "Oesper Museum Booklets on the History of Chemical Apparatus, No. 6, Spectrophotometers" (PDF). che.uc.edu. University of Cincinnati. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  19. "Modernized Cary 14 UV/Vis/NIR Spectrophotometer". olisweb.com. OLIS. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  20. "Model 14 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer". avivbiomedical.com. Aviv Biomedical. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
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