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Ivium CE Link

The CE link module enables the combination of 2 or more Ivium potentiostats in a single cell with shared counter electrode without galvanic isolation.

Placing the CE link between potentiostat and cell avoids the need for floating operation of one (or more) of the channels. This avoids the risk of high common mode voltages, or “noise” by enabling channels to be grounded to the same point. This results in reduced noise, and better low current performance (not influenced by capacitive AC-coupling which is common in floating operation and can exhibit itself as an apparent dc leakage current).

In the case of 2 connected potentiostats, the use of the CE link has several advantages over a conventional bipotentiostat: Both channels can use their full current compliance (up to maximum 5A);channels can be programmed independently (both in potentiostatic and galvanostatic mode); the channels with the CE link can use a grounded counter electrode, and each channel has its own RE and S connections. Depending on the application, the CE link can either be used on one or all of the channels in the experimental set up.