StellarNet, Inc. News and Press Releases
News and Updates for 2026
Halloween App Series: Little Spectrometer Shop of Horrors
It’s Halloween season…Our favorite time of the year and StellarNet’s headquarters just got a little more interesting. A lot of us are wondering how to celebrate Halloween safely during the COVID pandemic. Do we take our kids trick or treating? Do we hand out candy?...
Prost! Oktoberfest Beer Analysis at Home with David Parrino
While Oktoberfest celebrations in Munich and around the world have been canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the StellarNet Team decided to make the best of it with a beer celebration the 2020 way- at home. Spectroscopist and beer enthusiast, David...
Safely Back to Spectroscopy – FREE Spectrometer Promotion for Back to School
As we head into the fall semester and get ‘Back to School’ it is hard not to notice that this year is different than years past. COVID-19 has students, professors, and the world trying to figure out how to learn, educate, & continue research while staying as safe...
Chew on this! Shark Week Special – LIBS of Fossilized Shark Teeth
With "Shark Week" in full swing and our recent discovery of fossilized shark teeth on our Florida beaches, our applications team decided to analyze the teeth using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS). Shark teeth are the most common fossil because sharks...
Sunkissed on my COVID Beach Vacation
After months of being cooped up at home, I decided I needed a change of scenery…responsibly. It was the perfect time to take a semi-staycation. I rented an Airbnb, packed up my car, and headed for a home near a secluded beach. I relaxed, swam in the pool, BBQ ’d...
Covid-19 Research Special- Analyzing UVC Sanitization of Face Masks
From left to right: María Teresa Flores-Arias, Justo Arines and Carmen Bao-VarelaOur research group, Photonics4life, are members of the Physics Faculty at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. During the lockdown, due to the Covid-19 pandemic disease, we were...
Sanitizing with Light – Testing UV Disinfecting Lamps
With Coronavirus numbers in the United States still rising, many people are looking at UVGI as an answer to reopening safely. UVGI or Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation is a method of disinfection that uses UV-C light to sanitize. UV-C light can inactivate bacteria...
Haze Measurement Application Note -Packaging, Beverages, Displays, and Diffusers
Haze is an important appearance attribute that directly affects human perception and plays an important role in consumer demand. It can be the difference between deeming something as shiny, beautiful and new, or dingy, weathered, and worn. Haze can be quantified and...
Happy 4th of July – How Compact Spectrometers are being used in Combustion Research: Here Come the Fireworks!
Let’s be frank: the most exciting part about chemistry is the explosions! A popular demonstration in General Chemistry class is the reaction between Al and Fe2O3, the thermite reaction. It needs a high temperature to get going, but the resulting reaction is so hot...
Spectroscopy in Space- Extreme Spectrometer Applications
The recent excitement of space travel by NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley allowed us to take our minds off the worldwide pandemic, if just for a moment. It reminds us of the opportunities that space exploration and scientific research offer to help...