Reducing stray light with spatial modulation and imaging spectroscopy
Researchers from Lund University use periodic shadwing via a fiber probe to minimise stray light, one of the major challenges within laser probed combustion experiments…Find out more
Andreas Ehn
OSA Publishing
2021
Revealing the Influence of Algae on the Surface of Seawater
Prof Heather Allen’s group from Ohio State University are using sum frequency generation spectroscopy to understand the physics and chemistry at the interface between air and sea. This allows for further understanding of how gas and materials exchange on the surface of oceans, an important insight into how oceans influence the global climate…Find out more
Mickey Rogers, Heather Allen
ChemRxiv
2020
Building More Efficient Nanotube NIR-II Probes for Biosensing
Single-walled carbon nanotubes are widely used as optical probes for biomedical sensing due to their high stability and the ability to functionalize their surface for specific molecular targeting. Researchers from EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland are developing a protein-based functionalization method for maintaining the fluorescence of biosensors in the SWIR band…Find out more
Ardemis Boghossian
Chemistry of Materials
2020
Watching Molecules Bind to Gold Surfaces
Researchers from the Centre for Energy Research in Budapest are trying to understand the chemical processes that occur on the surface of gold nanoparticles. These processes have an influence on how the nanoparticles interact with light, changing their physical properties…Find out more
Andras Deak
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2020
Ultrafast Diagnostics of Electric Discharges in Plasmas
Researchers from Toulouse use simplified models to understand the discharge processes in plasmas. By performing measurements on plasmas created by pulsed electron beams, the team are able to characterize the physical properties of the plasma…Find out more
M. Yousfi
Journal of Applied Physics
2020
Raman and Second Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy for Researching Ferroelectricity in 2D Materials
Researchers from Vilnius University and Oak Ridge Nation Laboratory are studying thiophosphate materials for their ferroelectric properties and how these can be used in 2D van-der-Waals heterostructures. The researchers use Raman spectroscopy and second harmonic generation spectroscopy to characterize the thiophosphates…Find out more
Petro Maksymovych
Nature Communications
2020
Spectroscopic Characterization of Quantum Emitters for Integrated Photonics
Researchers around Dirk Englund from MIT and Gabriele Gross at City University of New York are investigating new host materials for quantum emitters that can be used on the wafer scale. They are characterizing these materials via spectroscopic measurements and photoluminescence emissions, determining lifetime and photon statics of the emitters…Find out more
Dirk Englund, Gabriele Grosso
arXiv
2020
Nano-Agents Enable Photon Induced Cancer Treatment in the NIR-II Wavelength Range
Researchers from China are combining monolayers of Tungsten diselenide with photonic crystal structures to influence the energy and direction of light emission. They are able to characterize the energy-momentum properties of these materials using an Isoplane-320 spectrograph and a PIXIS 400 camera. These investigations highlight interesting physics and the fundamentals of photonic and quantum devices……Find out more
Tian Jiang
Laser and Photonics Reviews
2020
Portable System for Fusion Prototype Characterization
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Labs created a portable plasma measurements sytem using an IsoPlane SCT 320 and PI-MAX 4 to remotely investigate fusion prototypes. Plasma properties are extremely useful for determining whether a plasma has the right conditions for fusion……Find out more
Theodore Biewer
Read Full Article
2020
Microspectroscopy for Characterizing Nanostructure Coupling
Researchers from the University of Connecticut used an IsoPlane SCT 320 and PIXIS 1024 to investigate the interactions between quantum dots and metallic nanoparticles. These particles are fundamental for nanostructure applications such as light emission, energy production and optical sensing…Find out more
Jing Zhao
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
2020
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Energy Momentum Measurements
Transition metal dichalcogenides are semiconductor materials that build single atom thin layers. A collaboration between Prof. Tian Jiang and Prof. Lei Shi’s research groups has resulted in investigations into nanostructures that have a strong influence on the energy and direction of light…Find out more
Tian Jiang
Laser & Photonics Reviews
2020
Making Vibration Patterns of Single Molecules Visible
Researchers from RIKEN are using scanning tunneling microscopy tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to study single molecules on very thin insulating films. As the resolution of their experimental set up is so high, they are able to resolve the shape of individual vibrational modes with submolecular resolution…Find out more
Yousoo Kim
Nature Nanotechnology
2020
Van-Der-Waals Heterostructures Enclosed within Hexagonal Boron-Nitride
Researchers from Japan used a temperature dependent microspectroscopy to analyze how enclosing 2D materials in hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) changes their physical properties. Traditionally, enclosing van-der-Waals heterostructures is to preserve their unique properties, however hBN causes a change in photoluminescence emission showing a change in the encapsulated material…Find out more
Ryo Kitaura
njp 2D Materials and Applications
2019
Controlling Plasmonics Using Copper Nanostructures
Prof. Haral Gießen’s group, from the University of Stuttgart, are using photonics and nanotechnologies to create displays operated by controlling plasmonic effects. To change the position of the display, the plasmonics must be understood and controlled. The researchers are doing this by creating devices based on thin Cu films…Find out more
Harald Gießen
ACS Photonics
2019
Raman Spectroscopy and Pyrometry in Shock-Wave-Compressed Toluene
Researchers from the Department of Energy used pyrometry and Raman spectroscopy simultaneously to compare measured temperatures of shock-wave-compressed toluene. This is essential to validate pyrometry as a temperature diagnostic in dynamic experiments…Find out more
J.G.Mance
Journal of Applied Physics
2019
Enhancing Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Properties Through Alignment
Researchers from the University of Wyoming used an IsoPlane 320 and a PyLoN to characterize carbon nanotubes in both the longitudinal and latitudinal axis. These axes are inherent to the physical properties of the carbon nanotubes…Find out more
Bill Rice (William D. Rice)
Nano Letters
2019
Tomographic Measurements of Plasmas Using a Huge Number of Spectral Channels
Researchers from UC Berkely are looking at carbon nanotubes to understand biomechanics on the nanoscale. The nanotubes are tuned to emit in the SWIR/NIR-II range due to low background fluorescence and high spatial accuracy…Find out more
Markita Landry
BioChemistry
2018
Femtosecond Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Melanoma Detection
Femtosecond LIBS has been used by researchers at Gwangju Institute to investigate skin cancer. The speed and resolution of fs-LIBS allows for high resolution, precise maps around the tumor border…Find out more
Sungho Jeong
Journal of Biomedical Optics
2018
Carbon Nanotubes for Nanophotonic Devices
Researchers from Heidelberg University are producing new materials for nanophotonic devices based on carbon nanotubes. The team used emission and photoluminescence spectroscopy to characterize the new devices using a NIRvana, PIXIS and IsoPlane 320…Find out more
Jana Zaumseil
ACS Photonics
2018
Photothermal Conversion Process with Nanoparticles in Water
Researchers from China are studying the conversion of solar energy using Tellurium nanoparticles. By using Raman spectroscopy, UV-VIS absorption and dark field scattering spectroscopy to characterize these particles…Find out more
Guowei Yang
Science Advances
2018
Raman Spectroscopy for Label Free Biological Imaging
A team at the University of Minnesota are using nanotechnology and optical methods to advance biosensing and bioscience analysis. By using high-resolution micro Raman spectroscopy they are able to acquire quickly without labeling biological nanoparticles…Find out more
Prashant Jain
Nano Letters
2018
Surface Enhance Raman Spectroscopy For Nanoparticle Catalysts
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are using surface enhance microRaman spectroscopy (SERS) to examine the mechanisms behind silver nanoparticle catalysts for ethylene..Find out more
Prashant Jain
Nature Communications
2018
Photoluminescence Spectroscopy to Characterize Microstructured Silica Fibers
A team from Lyon University are creating novel optical devices based on silica materials. They are using photoluminescence spectroscopy to characterize these materials and how doping with different elements changes emission…Find out more
Prof. Ouerdane
Optical Materials
2018
Surface Force Measurements of Rough and Reactive Calcite
Researchers from Norway A team from Lyon University are creating novel optical devices based on silica materials. They are using photoluminescence spectroscopy to characterize these materials and how doping with different elements changes emission…Find out more
Anja Røyne
Langmuir
2018
Metallic Nanoparticles with Plasmon Resonance for Therapeautics
A collaborative team from Rice University and Cambridge University are investigating localized surface plasmon resonance in magnesium nanoplatelets. These plasmon resonance effects have potential applications in cancer therapy, biosensing, and enhanced spectroscopy…Find out more
Emilie Ringe
Nano Letters
2018
Surface Enhance Raman Spectroscopy for Neurotransmitter Detection
Amber Moody and Bhavya Sharma from University of Tennessee Knoxville are using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy to achieve sensitive biosensing for early disease detection…Find out more
Bhavya Sharma
ACS Chemical Neuroscience
2018
Self-Assembled Gold Nanoparticles for Molecule Sensing
Researchers from the University College Dublin are using highly ordered gold nanoparticles for ultralow concentration molecule sensing. They achieve this using surface Raman scattering using an IsoPlane and ProEM…Find out more
James Rice
ACS Omega
2018
Determining the Structure of DNA Using Raman Spectroscopy
High resolution Raman spectroscopy allowed researchers from NAS of Ukraine to study the structure of DNA molecules. The team measured the structural changes of DNA inside photonic crystal cavities…Find out more
V. V. Boiko
Journal of Biological Physics
2018
Understanding the Fundamentals of Imaging Fiber Bundles for Coherence Imaging
Researchers from Duke University are using an imaging spectrometer to understand the fundamental physical properties of imaging fiber bundles for applications such as coherence imaging and optical coherence tomography…Find out more
Adam Wax
Applied Optics
2018
Titanium Oxide Thin Films Using Plasma
Researchers from Chonbuk National University are investigating a deposition method which uses plasma for thin films made of titanium oxide…Find out more
Se Youn Moon
Surface and Coatings
2018
Doppler Shift for Particle Beam Diagnosis
Researchers from India use the Doppler shift to diagnose a particle beam at ITER. By using optical fibers they can probe the emission signal from different locations on the experiment to detect multiple signals simultaneously…Find out more
Arnab Deka
Journal of Applied Physics
2018