The goal of using standard silicon-IC technology to create smaller, better, and possibly less-expensive yet highly sophisticated instrumentation is extending to the optical domain. There’s major ...

Optical spectroscopy has helped scientists explore several new areas of nanocomposite research. In this article, the role of optical spectroscopy in polymer research is discussed. Optical spectroscopy ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists including an Oregon State University materials researcher have developed a better tool to measure light, contributing to a field known as optical spectrometry in a way ...

An optical spectrometer is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the light spectrum, which has found a wide range of practical applications. Dispersive optical ...

In this article, we discuss the principle behind the functioning of glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, some of its practical applications as well as studies that have used the technology in ...

Meet the world’s smallest optical spectrometer. Crafted from a single nanowire less than 100 µm long, the device can measure the intensity of colored light across the visible spectrum and may ...