Power. Potential. Productivity.
Confocal Microscope Platforms STELLARIS 5 & STELLARIS 8
STELLARIS is a completely re-imagined confocal microscope platform.
STELLARIS confocal microscopes can be combined with all Leica modalities, including FLIM, STED, DLS, and CRS. With the STELLARIS confocal platform, we have re-imagined confocal microscopy to get you closer to the truth.
Your benefits
Power to see more
The synergy between the Power HyD detector family, optimized beam path, and White Light Lasers (WLL) empowers you to obtain more accurate and reliable data to test your hypothesis with precision.
Potential to discover more
TauSense gives instant access to lifetime-based information, delivering additional insights to your experiments.
Productivity to do more
The ImageCompass user interface enables you to acquire images with just a few clicks, even when doing complex experiments.
The POWER to see more
The Power HyD detector family provides higher photon detection efficiency (PDE)* extremely low dark noise, and sensitive spectral detection from 410 to 850 nm.
- Enhanced image quality: STELLARIS provides an ideal combination of brightness, resolution and contrast.
- Complete spectral freedom: Our next-generation White Light Lasers allow you to simultaneously use up to 8 single excitation lines from across the spectrum. Image more fluorophore combinations than with any other confocal platform and use more labels in parallel, expanding your options into the NIR range.
- Gentle Live Cell Imaging: Preserve your sample’s integrity and image for longer periods of time through efficient signal acquisition at the lowest required levels of illumination
*2x higher Photon Detection Efficiency (PDE) compared to conventional multi-alkali Photomultiplier Tubes (PMT) and 3x higher in the extended red range.
COS7 mitotic cells. Chromatin (cyan, mCherry), mitotic spindle (yellow, EGFP), Golgi (red, Atto647N), mitochondria (green, AF532), actin filaments (magenta, SiR700). Sample courtesy: Jana Döhner, Urs Ziegler, University of Zürich; cells expressing mCherry were a kind gift of Daniel Gehrlich. SiR was a kind gift of Spirochrome
The POTENTIAL to discover more
STELLARIS unique TauSense technology allows you to extract an extra layer of information from every sample and increase the scientific impact of your research. TauSense is comprised of application-oriented imaging tools based on fluorescence lifetime that you can use to explore the function of molecules within the cellular context.
- TauContrast provides immediate access to functional information, such as metabolic status, pH, and ion concentration.
- TauGating improves the quality of your images by removing unwanted fluorescence contributions.
- TauSeparation helps you expand the combination of fluorescent signals in your experiment beyond the spectral options.
- TauInteraction provides straightforward detection and quantification of molecular interactions (e.g. protein-protein interaction).
Root-hypocotyl-junction of Arabidopsis thaliana. Image acquired with TauContrast. Actin: Lifeact-Venus (Era et al.Plant Cell Physiol., 2009); chloroplasts: endogenous fluorescence; membranes: red, Propidium iodide. Sample courtesy: Melanie Krebs, COS, University of Heidelberg.
The PRODUCTIVITY to do more
Streamlined setup and acquisition: ImageCompass, the STELLARIS smart user interface, provides users with an easy and intuitive way to set up even the most complex experiments with just a few clicks.
- Simply fast: Superb image quality in real time and at full speed with the LIGHTNING super-resolution, Dynamic Signal Enhancement (DSE), and the powerful AI feature AiviaMotion.
- Intuitive User Interface: ImageCompass guides you from the experiment setup through acquisition.
- Optimize your experiment: Tools like LAS X Navigator are seamlessly integrated for straightforward imaging.
ImageCompass smart user interface. Set up of a multicolor experiment.
Features & Modalities
| STELLARIS 5 | STELLARIS 8 | |
Features | ||
TauSense | o | x |
ImageCompass, LIGHTNING, Dynamic signal enhancement, Navigator | x | x |
AiviaMotion | o | o |
Modalities | ||
STED - Stimulated Emission Depletion | – | o |
DIVE - Multicolor Multiphoton | – | o |
FALCON - Fluorescence Lifetime | – | o |
DLS - Digital Light Sheet | o | o |
CRS - Coherent Raman Scattering | – | o |
x = included, o = optional, - = not available
STELLARIS 5
STELLARIS 5 delivers the very best of our platform. It is a completely re-imagined core system that sets a new standard for confocal microscopy. It is the only confocal system with an integrated WLL, combined with our proprietary Acousto-Optical Beam Splitter (AOBS) and new Power HyD S detectors. Together with the new and unique TauSense technology, STELLARIS 5 sets a new standard for the quality of images and quantity of information generated. This perfected imaging performance is easily attainable thanks to the smart user interface, ImageCompass, which guides you through your experiment set up and acquisition in an easy and intuitive manner.
STELLARIS 8
STELLARIS 8 is a forward-looking system, offering all the benefits of the STELLARIS 5 core system plus added functionality thanks to an extended spectrum WLL and specialized detector options of the Power HyD family. This allows you to expand the range of confocal applications in your research. STELLARIS 8 can be combined with all Leica Microsystems modalities, including FAst Lifetime CONtrast (FALCON), Deep In Vivo Explorer (DIVE), STED, Digital Light Sheet (DLS) and CARS. STELLARIS 8 new features maximize the potential of these modalities and give you the power and potential to set new standards for research.
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