For decades, the ability to visualize the chemical composition of materials, whether for diagnosing a disease, assessing food ...

Slightly larger than a mobile phone, Ocean Optics' fiber-optic USB4000 spectrometer uses a 3648-element Toshiba linear CCD array detector and high-speed electronics. For the MARC system, the ...

While it's very important to track malaria infections in at-risk populations, drawing and analyzing blood samples can be problematic. A new device is designed to help, as it uses light to detect the ...

A research team has developed a broadband UV dual-comb spectrometer with which air pollutants can be continually measured and their reaction with the environment can be observed in real time. Sunlight ...

Researchers are designing new ways to make spectrometers that are ultra-small but still very powerful, to be used for anything from detecting disease to observing stars in distant galaxies.