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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Exploring VIS/NIR reflectance indices for the estimation of water status in highbush blueberry plants grown under full and deficit irrigation
A Ribera-Fonseca, E Jorquera-Fontena, M Castro… - Scientia Horticulturae, 2019 Abstract Remote sensing based on visible and near infrared (VIS/NIR) reflectance is being recognized as a promising...
Exciton dissociation in an NIR-active triohybrid nanocrystal leading to efficient generation of reactive oxygen species
J Patwari, H Joshi, H Mandal, L Roy, C Bhattacharya… - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 Abstract Lead sulfide (PbS) colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are emerging materials for fundamental studies...
Current status and recommendations toward a virus standard for ballast water
Y Kim, SD Snow, V Reichel-Deland, M Maghsoodi… - Management of Biological …, 2019 Abstract Ballast water contains and transfers a variety of biological and non-biological materials between biomes....
Label-free discrimination of single nucleotide changes in DNA by reflectometric interference Fourier transform spectroscopy
F Makiyan, F Rahimi, M Hajati, A Shafiekhani… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2019 Abstract Phenotypic variation – such as disease susceptibility and differential drug response – has a strong genetic...
Saline wastewater treatment with purple phototrophic bacteria
T Hülsen, K Hsieh, DJ Batstone - Water Research, 2019 Abstract Biological removal of organics, nitrogen and from saline wastewaters is adversely impacted by high salinity, which can be a major...
UV-blocking High-tunnel Plastics Reduce Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) in Red Raspberry
ME Cramer, K Demchak, R Marini, T Leskey - HortScience, 2019 Abstract Insecticides are the primary tool raspberry growers use to control Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica), but reliance on...