Apr 21, 2017 | Characterization, Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms
The full width at half maximum (FWHM) is the width of a line shape at half of its maximum amplitude, as shown below: A closely related quantity is the half width at half maximum (HWHM) or the Resolving Resolution and it is half of the FWHM. For Gaussian line shapes,...
Apr 18, 2017 | Characterization, Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms
There are many different definitions of sensitivity. For StellarNet, we use the word sensitivity to mean the total system response of a spectrometer versus wavelength. This is a combination of the detector response, grating response, and any loss due to optics....
Apr 12, 2017 | Application, Applications, Industrial & Process Analysis, News, Raman
Vibrational spectroscopies are integral in analyzing some of the most fundamentally important processes in physical chemistry: molecular vibrations. While there are many different experimental techniques used to analyze those vibrations, most are variations of the...
Mar 27, 2017 | Application, Applications, Chemistry, Displays & Radiometry, Physics, Solar SpectroRadiometry
W Shao, G Chen, TY Ohulchanskyy, C Yang, H Agren… – Nanoscale, 2017 Photon management enables the manipulation of the number of input photons by conversion of two or more light quanta into one (upconversion) or vice versa (quantum cutting). Simultaneous...
Mar 27, 2017 | Application, Applications, Biology, Biomedical & Life Science
Z Chen, S Zhang, I Levchenko, II Beilis, M Keidar – arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01655, 2017 Experiments have revealed a nontrivial cancer-inhibiting capability of liquid media treated by the plasma jet capable of forming thinly stratified self-organized patterns...