CIC Photonics IRGAS gas analyzer systems are used across semiconductor manufacturing, solar photovoltaic production, and specialty gas analysis for commercial, research, and government customers, along with emissions monitoring, combustion analysis, and hazardous decontamination verification. CIC Photonics offers several IRGAS versions because gas species, purity requirements, operating conditions, and detection ranges vary by application.
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Semiconductor equipment manufacturers use IRGAS systems to meet moisture-content purity requirements and monitor the removal of unwanted contaminants during epitaxial treatment processes. Because semiconductor specialty gases such as ammonia and HBr require extremely low moisture levels to protect wafer quality, this application relies on the parts-per-billion sensitivity that IRGAS technology was originally developed to deliver, and remains the industry that the platform was first built to serve.
Solar Photovoltaics Production
Solar technology producers use a dual-gas-cell IRGAS configuration that reports both percentage-level and high-sensitivity parts-per-billion detection limits from the same processed gas stream. This dual-range configuration is designed to provide percentage-level and high-sensitivity parts-per-billion measurements for solar process gases. The final configuration depends on the gases, ranges, and sampling conditions specified for the project.
Specialty Gas Analysis for Research and Government
Commercial, research, and government agencies use IRGAS systems for specialty gas analysis, where composition and purity measurements are needed for multiple gas species simultaneously. These systems use the same core combination of a high-sensitivity FTIR spectrometer, a gas cell, and SPGAS software, configured around the gas species, composition range, and purity measurements required by the project.
Emissions, Combustion, and Decontamination
Beyond manufacturing, CIC Photonics identifies pollutant emissions monitoring, combustion -efficiency analysis, and monitoring during the decontamination of hazardous chemical and biological agents as IRGAS applications. On the combustion side, CIC Photonics’ IRGAS combustion analyzer configuration measures CH4, NOx, SOx, CxHy, and total hydrocarbons, combining multi-point sampling with pressure and temperature data to calculate thermodynamic efficiency for diesel engine research, turbine optimization, and related applications such as steel production gas releases and aero-turbine engine testing.
This combustion configuration typically pairs the MB3000 spectrometer with a Scout cell, built to withstand 300°C in a low internal volume of 45 cc for fast response, or a 4Runner cell with a 3-meter pathlength for lower-concentration exhaust streams, with results integrated through SPGAS software using fundamental PNNL-based gas calibration data.
A Manufacturer With Decades in the Field
CIC Photonics has manufactured gas- phase chemical analyzers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 1994, and has hundreds of IRGAS and related gas- analysis tools deployed with more than 500 customers worldwide across the semiconductor, chemical, petroleum, and environmental industries. The company has been ISO9001- certified since 2006 and is currently ISO9001:2015- compliant.
Why Application Fit Matters
CIC Photonics offers several versions of IRGAS, each designed to meet the purity standards and detection requirements of a specific industry, built from a shared foundation of a high-sensitivity FTIR spectrometer, a matched gas cell, and SPGAS control software. Identifying which application category your project falls into is the fastest way to get to the right configuration, whether that means a semiconductor moisture package, a dual-range solar configuration, a multi-species specialty gas panel, or a combustion-oriented build for engine and turbine research.
Find the Right IRGAS Configuration for Your Industry
To talk through your IRGAS configuration, contact CIC Photonics directly, send an email to request@cicp.com, or call the team at (505) 343-9500. You can also visit the CIC Photonics facility at 6310 Edith Blvd Ste. A NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107, or leave a review on Google to share your experience.