Spectroscopy Applications
Explore how researchers, manufacturers, and quality-control laboratories use StellarNet spectrometers to solve real-world measurement challenges. Our compact UV-Vis, VIS-NIR, NIR, and Raman spectroscopy systems support applications across food safety, pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, thin films, biomedical research, environmental monitoring, industrial process analysis, radiometry, and space science.
Browse the application areas below to discover customer research, technical articles, spectroscopy methods, and practical solutions for absorbance, transmission, reflectance, fluorescence, Raman, radiometric, and chemometric analysis.
Key Application Areas
Food Safety & Quality
Advanced & quantum materials
Thin Films & Optical Coatings
Pharmaceuticals & Nutraceuticals
Biomedical & Life Sciences
Environmental & Microplastics
Industrial & Process Analysis
Lighting, Displays & Radiometry
Featured Spectroscopy Application –
Astronomy, Space & Remote Sensing
Astronomy spectroscopy gives researchers a way to study light from objects and environments far beyond the laboratory. StellarNet systems support astronomical spectroscopy for research into stars, planets, meteors, and atmospheric phenomena. Spectral measurements can reveal information that cannot be seen through imaging alone. Compact instruments also open new possibilities for space spectroscopy and CubeSat missions where size and flexibility matter. From meteor and aurora research to remote sensing and educational astronomy, StellarNet provides accessible spectroscopy tools for exploring our planet and the universe beyond it.
Astronomy, Space & Remote Sensing
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Broadband reflective circular dichroism in the visible-light region from an aluminum chiral metasurface fabricated with a lift-off-free double-layer structure
Atsushi Motogaito, Ryune Fukushi, Yoshiki Takeshima, Kotaro Ito, Takeshi Kato & Kazumasa Hiramatsu Abstract We experimentally and numerically investigate an aluminum (Al) chiral metasurface...
Energy-Harvesting Asymmetry in Semitransparent Polymer Solar-Cells Based on a Laminated Transparent Electrode
Changhun Yun; Moon Hee Kang Abstract Semitransparent polymer solar cells (ST-PSCs) with laminated transparent electrodes are promising candidates for building-integrated photovoltaics. However, the...
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Wideband nanocomposite antireflective coating based on aluminium dry powder nanoparticles embedded into a photopolymer matrix for solar cells application
P. A. Sánchez, S. Valdueza-Felip, M. Sun, F. B. Naranjo & Ó. Esteban Abstract We present a low-cost method to implement a single-layer antireflective coating (ARC) including metallic...
Experimenting with Catalytic Stacks for Ortho-Parahydrogen Conversion in a Thermoacoustic Standing-Wave Engine
Matthew Shenton, Nathan Jorgensen, Konstantin Matveev, and Jacob Leachman Hydrogen Properties for Energy Research (HYPER) Center, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State...
Autonomous monitoring of algal biomass: Success stories and lessons learned from long-term field deployment
 Christopher Katinas, Marina Holder, Thomas A. Reichardt, John McGowen Jerilyn A. Timlin Abstract Autonomous, high-frequency monitoring of outdoor algal ponds is needed to quantify biomass...