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News and Updates for 2026
How Compact Spectrometers are being used in Environmental Research: Cleaning Up Our Messes
Modern technological advances have made our lives easier – from pharmaceuticals to help us stay healthy, to pesticides that allow greater crop yield – at least in the short term. But, what happens to these compounds once we are done using them? Many of them end up in...
How Compact Spectrometers are being used in Cancer Research: Approaches to a Multifaceted Problem
Every week, it seems like another friend or family member is diagnosed with cancer. The American Cancer Society predicts that 1,688,780 people will be diagnosed with cancer and 600,920 people will die from cancer in the US in 2017. This problem isn’t limited to the...
Spectrometer Application Note: How do Different Light Sources Affect Crops?
For millennia, farmers have been at the mercy of the sun, depending on it to grow quality crops. Then came metal halide lamps and greenhouses to create artificial sun and summer. Now, with technologies such as LEDs, crops can be grown with tailored spectral...
Spectroscopy Lab Experiments – Quantification of Food Dyes in Sports Drinks
Absorbance Spectroscopy and Sports Drinks How much food dye is present in sports drinks? This is the question you will answer in this laboratory experiment. You will use visible spectroscopy to determine the concentration of a food dye in a beverage of your choice....
Technical Note – Vibrational Spectroscopy: Infrared vs. 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...
Photonics West 2017 Video Updates
StellarNet Makes a Splash! StellarNet recently unveiled its latest innovations at the industry's leading photonics conference, Photonics West, where there were more than 1,200 companies and 20,000+ attendees. It was great to see so many familiar faces and happy...
Who exactly is the SpectraWizard?
For many years, people have seen a giant wizard with a lambda necklace walking around conferences such as ACS, Photonics West, and Pittcon and often wonder if they are seeing Gandalf's little brother... in fact, they are seeing the StellarNet "SpectraWizard". And if...
A Holiday Gift from StellarNet
Now through the end of the year, StellarNet is offering a holiday gift with all spectrometer system purchases over $5,000. All customers will receive a free windows tablet compatible with...
Battery Pack Upgrades for Compact Field Spectrometers
Significant improvements for StellarNet’s line of battery packs specifically designed for field spectroscopy applications have been made. These improvements include quadruple power output for +12VDC and +5VDC operation, smaller footprint, and external powering and...
Windows 64-bit Device Driver Wrapper Now Available for Developers & OEM Customers
StellarNet is now offering a Windows 64-bit only Device Driver Wrapper written in C++ for StellarNet spectrometers. The standard swdll.dll is considered a mix-mode driver and will install without problems on both 32-bit and 64-bit computer operating systems....