Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies ( NYSE: A), also briefly Agilent, is an American technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It describes itself as " a developer, manufacturer and supplier of equipment, systems and solutions in the areas of measurement and testing technology, electronics and medical electronics. "

History

Agilent was created in 1999 as an offshoot of five departments, which was founded in 1939 by Hewlett -Packard. Since June 2, 2000 Agilent Technologies is an independent company. The 1950 emerged from the acquisition of Sanborn by HP department Healthcare / Medical Products was sold to Philips Medical Systems in 2001, 2005, acquired the Agilent Technologies Semiconductor Products Group by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR ) and Silver Lake Partners and the semiconductor manufacturers Avago founded.

Was founded in 2006 from the Department of SOC and memory testers, an independent company that has been listed as Verigy in the NASDAQ since 2006.

Currently ( 2007), approximately 19,000 employees in all locations worldwide. Agilent Technologies in Germany employs around 1,400 people, most of them in Böblingen ( optical metrology and digital test equipment) and in Waldbronn (Life Sciences & Chemical Analysis ).

Since 2005, William P. Sullivan, as the successor of Edward W. Barnholt CEO of Agilent Technologies. In June 2007, Agilent took over the German Adaptif PHOTONICS GmbH, in May 2010, Varian Inc..

On 19 September 2013 Agilent announced the company into two separate business units continued to lead.

Products

Main products include Agilent oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, DNA / RNA microarrays, liquid chromatography (HPLC [ high pressure { or } Performance Liquid Chromatography ] ) and gas chromatography - mass spectrometry [ GC -MS ]. The investment daughter Agilent Ventures High Tech Start Up companies.

The product range of the business unit LSCA (Life Science / Chemical Analysis ) includes traditional capillary electrophoresis (CE capillary electrophoresis ) and microfluidic products such Bioanalyzer Chip-LC/MS ( Chip Liquid Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry ).

Because of the many offered by Agilent coupling techniques of mass spectrometers with Chromatographiegeräten the company is one of the leading manufacturers of mass spectrometers. Among other things, mass spectrometer with quadrupole (MSD ), the ion trap ( ion trap ) and the flight tube technique (TOF, time of flight ), both in the form of simple and multiple mass spectrometer (Q -TOF: quadrupole with flight tube, QQQ: three quadrupoles offered in series). Analysis devices can be connected in the form of a gas chromatograph (GC), liquid chromatograph (HPLC), capillary electrophoresis (CE) and ICP-MS. For the chromatography, other detectors are offered.

In addition, Agilent offers the visual programming language Java is available.

Waveform Generator 33120A

Digital Benchtop Multimeter: 34401A

Portable Digital Multimeter: U1272A