The C12880MA offers a spectral range of 340 – 850nm and a sensitivity two orders or magnitude higher than the original C12666MA Micro-Spectrometer, which won the 2015 Prism Award for detectors and sensors at Photonics West 2015. The high-sensitivity C12880MA also offers 12nm resolution, a high speed video rate of 5MHz and incorporates a trigger function and a CMOS sensor with 288 pixels (14×200μm pixel size).
Realised by utilising Hamamatsu MEMS and image sensor technologies, the spectrometer measures only 20.1×12.5×10.1mm in size, making it suitable for portable measurement devices (including compatibility with smartphones and tablets) in applications such as colour monitoring, LED testing, water quality monitoring and other environmental measurement instruments.