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News Spectrum
Jan 01, 2009; ... Research Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute off Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) have developed a new NMR experiment that increases sensitivity by a factor of 100-170. Using "dynamic nuclear polarization" (DNP), the procedure holds great promise for research in many areas, ...
Expanding Spectroscopy's Coverage...of Spectroscopy
Jan 01, 2009; ... It may seem counterintuitive in a field that is so saturated by research articles, press releases, and earnings reports, but identifying market trends in the field of spectroscopy is no easy task. Read the wrong information or believe the wrong technical research, and you could end up chasing ...
The Baseline: The Seven Base Units, Part I
Jan 01, 2009; ... As a branch of science, spectroscopy is inherently quantitative. Quantities have two parts: numerical values and units. I will assume that everyone knows what numbers are (although a future column might devote space to the conventions for expressing numbers . . .). The units system that science ...
Mass Spectrometry Forum: Higher Resolution Mass Analysis in Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry
Jan 01, 2009; ... A higher resolving power in ICP-MS is used primarily to remove interferences from the measured ion signal, in contrast to the usage of higher resolving power in organic and biological mass spectrometry to establish ion empirical formulas. A practical attainable resolving power of 10,000 suffices ...
IFPAC
Jan 01, 2009; ... Spectroscopy previews the upcoming IFPAC Annual Meeting, to be held January 25-28, 2009, in Baltimore, Maryland. The 23rd International Forum for Process Analytical Technology (IFPAC-09) will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, located within Baltimore's Inner Harbor, ...
Laser and Optics Interface: How Will Distributed Sensing Inspire Changes in Optical-Sensing R&D?
Jan 01, 2009; ... Improvements in engineering and manufacturing processes and tools have rapidly lowered the cost to make products, and to distribute them. The next generation of optical sensing technologies will offer a framework for the creation and testing of new business models based upon the distribution of ...
Mid-Infrared Gas Sensing Using a Photonic Bandgap Fiber as a Gas Cell
Jan 01, 2009; ... A femtosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) has been used to characterize the transmission of a number of different all-silica photonic bandgap (PBG) fibers specially developed for gas sensing in the mid-infrared region. One of these fibers was chosen for its optimum transmission band ...
End of the Spectrum: Active Volcanoes in Space?
Jan 01, 2009; ... Spectrometer discovers signs of active cryovolcanoes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Molten lava, magma, and hot volcanic eruptions all come to mind when the phrase "active volcano" is mentioned, but this is not the case for Saturn's largest moon, Titan, where scientists have found ...
Industry
Apr 01, 2008; ... Eight new SPIE Fellows and winners of several important awards were announced at the 33rd annual SPIE Advanced Lithography (San Jose, CA) symposium. Martin van den Brink of ASML Netherlands received the 2008 Frits Zernike Award in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the ...
Research
Apr 01, 2008; ... Scientists at Lund University (Lund, Sweden) have filmed an electron in motion, the first time this has ever been achieved, allowing researchers to study the movements of the particle directly. The scientists devised a method of filming by using short attosecond pulses of ...
Erratum
Apr 01, 2008; ... In Table I of the February 2008 article "ICP-MS Detection for HPLC Analyses of Pharmaceutical Products" (T. Shelbourn, L. Williamson, T. Gillespie, and R. Montgomery, Spectroscopy 23[2], 38-47 ...
Market Profile: MALDI Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Apr 01, 2008; ... First developed in the mid-1980s, matrix assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) added a complementary mass spectrometry ionization technique to others that were already on the market, such as electrospray ionization (ESI). The technique was first mated to time-of-flight (TOF) mass ...
Spectroscopy Is Applied Quantum Mechanics, Part III: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Apr 01, 2008; ... In Part I of this series (1), I laid the groundwork for why the scientific understanding of nature in the late 19th century was found wanting: it could not explain a variety of phenomena that scientists were examining. (One of these phenomena was spectroscopy itself!) In Part II, I discussed ...
Erratum
Apr 01, 2008; ... In the last installment of this column (December 2007, p. 92), the Rydberg constant was incorrectly stated as 1.09737 × 10^sup -7^. It should be ...
Understanding the Implications of the 2008 GMP Update and Why the Laboratory Is Not Included
Apr 01, 2008; ... U.S. Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations (21 CFR 211) have existed unchanged since 1978 (1), although in 1996 a draft amendment was issued but was never implemented (2). However, on December 4,2007, the FDA issued a Direct Final Rule for 21 CFR 211 that will make changes to GMP for ...
Innovations in Speciation Analysis Using HPLC with ICP-MS Detection
Apr 01, 2008; ... Over the past several years, speciation analysis has grown rapidly and has expanded to a variety of markets, including environmental, clinical, food, nutraceutical, and bioanalytical. This growth has resulted from the realization that knowing the total amount of an element does not always ...
Single-Particle Spectroscopy on Conducting Polymer-Fullerene Composite Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Apr 01, 2008; ... The study of the photophysical and optoelectronic properties of a functioning conducting polymer device is extremely complicated and is hampered by the complex nanostructure and overall morphology of the conducting polymer materials applied in these devices. Here we discuss a novel approach to ...
Company News
Mar 01, 2008; ... Aspectrics, Inc. (Pleasanton, CA), announces the appointment of Scientific Support Services Ltd., a provider of high-quality instrumentation and related support services in science laboratories in a broad range of industries, as UK distributor. This partnership will see Scientific ...
Industry
Mar 01, 2008; ... Scientific Solutions, Inc. (SSI) (North Chelmsford, MA) announces that it has been awarded a two-year Phase Il SBIR contract by the United States Army for the development and construction of a "Spatial Heterodyne Interferometer for Emergent Line Discrimination Spectroscopy (SHIELDS)." The Phase ...
Market Profile: UV/Vis/NIR
Mar 01, 2008; ... While the overall laboratory UV and Visible spectroscopy market was worth well over $700 million in 2007, the UV/Vis/NIR segment represented less than 10% of it. UV/Vis/NIR instruments utilize multiple detectors to cover a broader spectrum of analysis, and typically are among the highest-end ...