Reichert Inc.’s entry into the design and manufacturing of Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) instrumentation began with collaboration between Leica Microsystems (Reichert Inc. predecessor) and Cornell University starting in mid 1997. This collaboration spearheaded efforts to incorporate biosensing technology into Reichert’s core critical angle refractometer products. 

In mid 2006 Reichert Inc. introduced and began selling a two channel SPR Spectrometer, the SR7000DC. This instrument features two channels (experimental and reference) improved signal to noise, lower baseline drift, and vastly improved optics, electronics and computing power.