MAZeT Presents Multiple Color Sensors for Accurate and Fast In-Line Color Measurement

With RGB and true color sensors, MAZeT offers semiconductor-based sensors with RGB or XYZ interference filters for fast and long-term stable color detection and absolute color measurement to the CIE/DIN5033 standard. For these sensors, in connection with white-light LEDs, accuracies in the color space that exceed the capacity of the human eye are possible. The accuracy is very heavily determined by the type of light source and the calibration of the sensors. In applications with non-standard light sources and / or higher standards for color accuracy, the principle of the 3-element color sensors runs up against natural limitations. For such applications, spectral sensor technologies that use a spectral resolution are recommended. Typical examples of these include spectrometers at resolutions such as those used in laboratory measuring instruments but also to some extent as an OEM spectrometer in in-line measurements. For sensor applications, however, such spectrometers are too slow, too expensive and usually too big.



The MMCS6 sensor confers the advantage that the recognition and measurement of metamerism effects can be filtered out, which cannot be done with RGB or XYZ sensors. Metamerism in the optical sense means various spectra that for a defined type of light produce the same impression on the human eye.



The spectral characteristics of the MMCS sensors are arranged in such a way that their border areas overlap. It follows that only as few gaps as possible exist in the visible spectrum. Misleading interpretation of the colors is thus minimized and the measurement accuracy increased. The sensor operates largely independent of the quality of the light sources. Through the spectral approximation of the measured color using MMCS sensors, color differences to which the human eye does not respond can be determined even there.