Spectroscopy

Highlights

Test & Measurement

Process analyzer features a UV-visible spectrometer

Jan. 31, 2024
The OMA process analyzer continuously measures chemical concentrations and physical properties.
Lasers & Sources

Fiber-coupled LED has applications in spectroscopy

Jan. 14, 2024
The NewDEL Model X3312 fiber-coupled LED source employs a phosphor-coated UV-LED.
Lasers & Sources

Portable wideband laser has use in medical imaging and spectroscopy

Jan. 10, 2024
The SLP-1000 portable wideband laser is based on patterned alternating dispersion (PAD).
(Image credit: Professor Ana C.M. Rodrigues/CeRTEV)
Making specialty glass in the laboratory by quickly cooling the glass melt on a cold metal slate (melt-quenching).
Optics

Niobium oxide plays a ‘network former’ role within silicate glass structures

Oct. 12, 2023
By combining nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and computational modeling, researchers explore the role of glass intermediate oxides—often a key ingredient of specialized...
(Courtesy of Gowerlabs)
FIGURE 1. The researchers use LUMO, a wearable, portable, high-density functional NIR imaging device equipped with modular tiles with built-in NIR light sources and detectors.
Bio&Life Sciences

Using near-infrared spectroscopy to help unravel the mysteries of dementia

Sept. 29, 2023
New work by a U.K. team demonstrates a new technique that enables a more detailed view of brain function, which could lead to more accurate and earlier diagnosis of diseases that...
Essent Optics
Test & Measurement

Spectrophotometer measures LWIR-optimized optical coatings

Aug. 9, 2023
The PHOTON RT 7512 spectrophotometer performs transmission and reflection measurements of plano-optics with coatings optimized for LWIR.
(Courtesy of Dwight Coleman)
FIGURE 1. InVADER project leader Pablo Sobron explains the system’s mission to the team of scientists onboard E/V Nautilus before ocean deployment.
Test & Measurement

Robotic vehicle plunges into ocean exploration with an optical sensing platform

Aug. 9, 2023
An optical sensing platform is helping identify, analyze, and catalog marine minerals and biodiversity along the sea floor. And as the technology matures, researchers say extraterrestri...
Craic Technologies
Test & Measurement

Microspectrophotometer has 200–2500 nm spectral range

July 24, 2023
The 2030XL PRO microspectrophotometer provides nondestructive analysis of microscopic areas of very large samples.
Horiba Scientific
Detectors & Imaging

Microscope features 300 × 300 mm automated sample stage

June 10, 2023
The LabRAM Odyssey Semiconductor microscope provides photoluminescence and Raman imaging on wafers up to 300 mm diameter.