CellASIC has partnered with Bioptechs, an industry leader in microscope environment control, to provide an objective heater system for the ONIX microfluidic plates. By warming only the miniature cell culture area of our microfluidic plates, the system is able to provide stable, responsive temperature control at a fraction of the cost of current enclosure or stage top methods. A customized temperature calibration plate ensures that the temperature around the cells is exactly what you want it be, regardless of your objective lens or microscope setup.

Key Features:

• Industry leading objective heater system
• Uniformly heats microfluidic culture chambers
• Use with ONIX temperature calibration plate
• Best with immersion and high NA objectives

Ordering Info

The patented Bioptechs Objective Heater system uses a sophisticated heater/sensor and electronic controller to heat specimens with remarkably high thermal transfer efficiency. For more detail, visit the Bioptechs web site at: http://www.bioptechs.com/

The Controller is specifically designed to slowly heat the objective over a fifteen minute warm-up period then hold the objective at the set point value within 0.2 °C. For best results, we recommend using the heater with immersion objectives. Short working distance air lenses are also suitable.

The Controller operates from ambient to 50 °C and has special safety circuitry to shut down the controller and sound an alarm if, for any reason, the temperature of the objective deviates after it has reached set point.

The objective heater is available in three different sizes and is adaptable to most objectives. Visit http://bioptechs.com/Objectives/Objective.html for a list of objectives and the corresponding heater sizes.