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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The Importance of Calibrated Uniform Light Sources in Imaging Array Quality Control
StellarNet, Inc. Tampa, Fl USA 10/15/2018 Array Detector Defects and Nonuniformities: All array detectors, both 1D and 2D, will inevitably suffer from defects and pixel-to-pixel nonuniformities due...
NIR Customer Spotlight- Jadavpur University predicts total polyphenol in Tea using near-infrared spectroscopy
The quality of tea liquor primarily depends on the quality of inbound fresh leaves to a tea factory. Several researchers at the Tocklai Tea Research Institute and Jadavpur University are working in...
Predicting composition of shelled corn (Zea mays) – A Feasibility Study with the StellarCASE-NIR Near-Infrared Analyzer
Introduction If you’ve driven through the mid-western United States, you’ll have noticed that corn is an important and prevalent crop. Corn covers about 90 million acres of farmland in the U.S. and...
Customer Spotlight – Zoological Lighting Institute
The Zoological Lighting Institute maintains a mission to support photobiology research for animal husbandry and wildlife conservation purposes. “Animal care depends on good science, and good science...
A New Color Fidelity Index for LED and Light Measurement- TM-30-15
Keeping Track of Color: The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) is the worldwide recognized source for standards in illumination who, in 1965, published the Color Rendering Index (CRI)...
LED Measurement at DelphiTech – Customer Spotlight
Quality Control for LED Products with StellarNet SpectroRadiometers A StellarNet SpectroRadiometer enables DelphiTech to ensure quality, quantify new products and analyze competitive...




